Anxiety
Discerning Three Types of Anxiety
Improving Outcomes for Anxious ClientsWe can all get caught up in their “anxiety whirlwind” of dysregulation, distorted thoughts, and defensiveness. Understanding some of the most common ways... Read more
Soothing Dysregulation in Couples Therapy
The One Thing We Should All Do FirstIs teaching partners to join forces against their stress where all couples work should begin? Read more
The Anxious Therapist
Harnessing Your Discomfort in SessionsWe can use our discomfort with clients to learn how to help them. Read more
The Amazon Package in Your Waiting Room
Unboxing Anger as a Path to VulnerabilityA client’s anger over his therapist’s environmental choices leads to an important turning point in their work. Read more
Guardians of the Aquifer
Moving from Despair to AdvocacyIn the face of environmental anguish, a therapy icon turns to grassroots activism and finds hope, healing, and connection. Read more
A Global Case of Mistaken Identity
An Interview with Dan Siegel: Can Expanding Our Sense of Self Save Our World?The way we think about connection and relationships can play a pivotal role in reverse-engineering the climate crisis— and therapists need to help. Read more
Negotiating a Frightening World
What Role Can Therapists Play?Real world events are enough to cause anxiety in anyone. See how this therapist helped an anxious client see the world in a new way. Read more
Social Anxiety in Kids
How Our Good Intentions Make It WorseMaking accommodations for socially anxious kids can be easier than getting them off their phones and out of their rooms—but it’s also dangerous. Read more
The Anxious Warrior
Fighting Fear with Krav MagaAn anxious mom steps out of her fortress of solitude and onto the martial-arts mat. Read more
When Medication Gets in the Way
Listening, Collaborating, and Helping Clients “Choose Their Own Adventure”"One of my clients takes prescription medication for anxiety and often complains about the negative side effects. I can’t help but feel it’s getting in the... Read more
Breaking the Generational Cycle of Worry in Families
An Interview with Lynn LyonsIn this Networker Live event, editor in chief Livia Kent talks with author Lynn Lyons, LICSW, about anxiety and families. Read more
Confronting the Climate Crisis
Helping Clients Face Uncertainty and FearPsychologist Elizabeth Allured is helping therapists and their clients contend with anxieties about the world’s climate crisis. Read more
The Fear of Exposure Therapy
Reframing Our ApproachOur willingness to face shared existential struggles right alongside our clients can make exposure therapy not only tolerable, but transformative. Read more
Building Distress Tolerance
Strategies for Working with Clients with OCDEncouraging anxious clients to face their fears is widely accepted as the gold-standard approach for treating anxiety-related disorders, including OCD. But a... Read more
My Client Needs Help with Something That Isn’t My Specialty
Five Clinicians Weigh InAndrew has started showing symptoms of OCD. He’s struggled with anxiety for a while, but the pandemic seems to have been a tipping point for him. His... Read more
Escaping the Rut of Regret
Five Creative Approaches to Letting GoA client has a lot of regret about past decisions he’s made, and although his therapist has talked with him about them at length, the client still can't seem... Read more
To Interrupt Anxiety, Try Singing
An Interview with Margaret WehrenbergOver the last year and a half, therapists have been pushed to the limit listening to clients worry, ruminate, grieve, and suffer in magnified ways. And we’ve... Read more
Hanging Out with Dick Van Dyke
A Lesson in Stepping UpAn encounter with a superstar teaches a young woman about courage. Read more
Coping with Cancer
And How to Regulate Emotions After a DiagnosisAlthough you can’t change unpredictable and uncontrollable situations, you can change how you respond. You can regain a sense of control and emotional... Read more
"Networker Live" with Dafna Lender
Intergenerational TraumaThe Networker's director of CE, Zach Taylor, sat down for a live conversation and Q&A with therapist and author Dafna Lender, discussing Dafna's recent... Read more
A Field Day for OCD?
Helping Kids Stay GroundedIn this genuinely hazardous COVID-19 environment, how can therapists help kids and families reject their OCD safety rituals? Read more
Esther Perel on Adapting to Uncertainty
And How Relationships Are Changing in a PandemicThere’s a profound change occurring in our relationship to space. In working remotely, it feels at times like we’re doing home visits. In video calls, we... Read more
Bottom-Up Gratitude
An AEDP ApproachA core tenet of AEDP teaches us that humans have a built-in, primitive drive to seek out healing attachment, that if something inside us feels wrong, we move... Read more
David Burns on Overcoming Self-Criticism
A Pioneer of CBT on his Journey to “Feeling Great”David Burns's book, Feeling Good, brought the cognitive revolution to the public. In his new book, Feeling Great, he draws on decades of clinical work to... Read more
Reaching Out in Nervous Times
Polyvagal Theory Encounters TeletherapyConnecting with clients on a nervous-system level is especially important to therapists working from a polyvagal framework. But is it possible to offer... Read more
The Reassurance Trap
Living with UncertainlyWe can’t guarantee certainty about anything, really. But some of us become haunted by needing to know for sure. We call this unrelenting need the Reassurance... Read more
Living with Life's Uncertainties
Wisdom from Rick Hanson's Networker Symposium KeynoteRick Hanson describes how becoming more mindful of our body and thoughts, and the link between the two, can make us happier and less afraid of life's... Read more
Overeating Issues in Quarantine?
How to Relate To Food and Weight Now and Let the Shame GoWhen COVID-19 hit and many of us began stocking up on food and sheltering in place, I grew deeply concerned for my clients. How were they going to handle the... Read more
VIDEO: What Polyvagal Theory Tells Us about Managing Stress
The Real-World Applications of Brain ScienceThe coronavirus pandemic is testing us all. But what do we do when our anxiety, loneliness, or grief gets overwhelming? Therapist and author Deb Dana shares... Read more
How Can I Safely Reopen My Practice?
Five Clinicians Weigh InAs parts of the country start to open back up from COVID-19 lockdown measures, a therapist worries about the risk of seeing clients in person again. Five... Read more