The Therapist's Craft
Challenges on the path to therapeutic connection, creativity, and healingCan AI Make Us Better Therapists?
Using New Technology for SupervisionWork Issues at the Heart of Couples' Conflicts
Exploring Our Relationships with Our JobsSaying Goodbye to Work You Love
How Do Therapists Know When It's Time to Retire?Releasing Guilt in Grief
The Vital Shift from Prevention to PostventionShame and Blame in Couples Therapy
A Therapist's Misstep Sparks RepairRethinking Codependence
An Attachment-Based Framework for CaregiversA Case of Disappearing Desire
Two Approaches to a Client with Commitment IssuesSex therapist Tammy Nelson and trauma specialist Frank Anderson take different paths to empower a client struggling with intimacy. Read more
5 Common Factors for Change in Therapy
A New Integrative Treatment FrameworkAcross all our therapeutic modalities, there are elements that most effectively create change. What do these elements have in common, and how can you integrate... Read more
Energy Psychology's Battle for Recognition
A Growing Healing Movement vs APA's Division 12Of all the David-and-Goliath matchups in psychotherapy, few have had as many twists and turns as the one unfolding between energy psychology and the APA’s... Read more
Confusion in Therapyland
Finding Regulation in a Dysregulated WorldA fantastical journey leads an overwhelmed clinician to unexpected interactions with some of our field's leading luminaries, including Ramani Durvasula, Terry... Read more
Flip Through the Magazine
...ON YOUR E-READER!Check out the November/December issue of the digital magazine on the browser of your favorite device—and dive in from cover to cover! Read more
2025 Best Story Awards
Readers' Choice AwardsDiscover the most popular stories and clinical insights voted on by readers and published in Psychotherapy Networker in 2025. Read more
The Adoption Crisis No One Wants to Name
How Adoptee Mentorship Can Save LivesWhen it comes to adoption, families need preparation that's trauma-informed and racially literate. Read more
What Therapy Demands—and Gives Back
How Healing Happens on Both Sides of the RoomIn therapy, healing is a living process that happens in real time through the courage to stay present and the therapeutic alliance. Read more
A Therapist Returns to Summer Camp
Rediscovering Community and Purpose in the Maine WoodsDecades later, a psychotherapist returns to summer camp, this time as an employee, and discovers the true meaning of growth and community. Read more
When DNA Testing Rewrites Your Story
Processing Unexpected Genetic Discoveries in TherapyGenetic testing has led to shocking "DNA discoveries"—secrets unburied, followed by pain, grief, and trauma. Here's how therapists can help. Read more
Embracing Selfish Forgiveness
How to Help Clients Release a Grievance StoryWhen we’re tormented by resentment toward someone we believe has wronged us, forgiveness can be a form of self-care. Read more
Flip Through the Magazine!
... ON YOUR E-READERDiscover surprising antidotes to therapist burnout and fresh perspectives on healing in the midst of grind culture. Read more
An Hour with Irv Yalom
Changing Lives in a Single SessionIn his late 80’s, as Irv Yalom’s memory began to flag, he offered one-time consultations to new clients—and still made an impact. Read more
Rest as Revolution
An Interview with The Nap Ministry's Tricia HerseyModern-day grind culture, with its roots in the profit-over-people mindset of chattel slavery, has normalized burnout as an inevitable part of life. How can... Read more
Why All Therapists Can (and Should) Ask About Sex
Tips for Bringing Up a Touchy SubjectAsking a client about sex doesn’t need to feel intimidating or awkward—but it is important for all therapists to do. Read more
The Turmoil Therapists Carry Alone
Facing the APES in Our FieldWhen it comes to processing work-related trauma, therapists are often isolated, shamed, and hamstrung by the guidelines meant to protect clients. Read more
The Truth about Autistic Burnout
Regaining Homeostasis in a Neurotypical WorldOn the surface, autistic burnout may present like depression in neurotypical clients, but treatment is considerably different. Read more
The Rock & Roll Sabbatical
Rethinking Time Off from Your PracticeIn the midst of a busy clinical practice, it’s hard to imagine taking a vacation, much less a long sabbatical. But with the right plan and support, not only... Read more
The Case of the Busy Client
Two Approaches to Anxiety When Time is ScarceAnxiety specialist Lynn Lyons and psychologist Lindsay Gibson share unexpected approaches to working with an overwhelmed, time-starved client. Read more
The Empathy Dial
Recalibrating Your Inner ResourcesIt seems counterintuitive that modulating empathy could benefit clients, but when your profession involves caring for others, it can help you maintain... Read more
Editor's Note: September/October 2025
The Burnout EpidemicOver the past few years, I found myself burning out on the whole problem of burnout. Then I came across The Nap Ministry. Read more
Triggers and Parental Abandonment
A Common Roadblock to Healing TraumaHere's a four-step exercise therapists can use to help survivors of parental abandonment process trauma triggers. Read more
Escaping the Certainty Trap
How to Value Confusion as a TherapistAs therapists, we work hard to stay one step ahead of bad outcomes in session. But what if our real work is about embracing uncertainty alongside our clients? Read more
Humor in Trauma Work
Making Space for Our Whole Selves in TherapyHealing doesn’t always start with crying. Sometimes it begins with a snort-laugh in a quiet office. Read more
The Autism vs Narcissism Confusion
Clarifying Dangerous Misconceptions Affecting Couples TodayDr. Ramani Durvasula and Kory Andreas discuss why autism and narcissism are often misconstrued in intimate relationships. Read more
Ken Hardy on Racial Reactivity Today
A Clinical Tool for Navigating Defensiveness, Anger & HopelessnessKen Hardy has been presenting workshops on racial reactivity for over 30 years. What's different now? Read more
The Vulnerability Junkie
A Fresh Look at the Pursuer-Distancer DynamicWe're all familiar with the pursuer-distancer dynamic, but are therapists missing the mark when it comes to helping withdrawers connect? Couples therapist... Read more
Embodied Healing in a Disembodied World
Metabolizing Intergenerational Trauma & Collective GriefLinda Thai takes a holistic approach to healing from trauma, addiction, and attachment wounding—one that includes reverence for our bodies, nature, and time... Read more
When Grief Is a Soft, Grey Animal
Megan Devine & Leanne Campbell Reveal Unlikely Paths to HealingGrief expert Megan Devine & EFT trainer Leanne Campbell help a relationally fulfilled, successful, father-to-be explore his persistent grief over the loss of... Read more
Flip Through the Magazine!
Brave New Conversations on the Heart of HealingExperience some of the most meaningful moments that happened at Psychotherapy Networker’s annual Symposium in 2025, with some of the premiere thought leaders... Read more