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You're Attracted to Your Client?!

5 Clinicians Offer Guidance on a Dreaded Ethical Dilemma

It can be embarrassing and a little scary when we find ourselves attracted to a client. What’s the best way to handle this surprisingly common clinical... Read more

Turning Your Session Notes into Meaningful Art

Poetry as a Portal to a New Relationship

Poetry has the power to move clients and therapists from cognition to resonance—and support rapid transformation. Read more

Dating in the Age of Algorithms

How Does Physical Chemistry Factor into Digital Dating?

Billions of daily swipes on dating apps yield an average match rate of less than 2 percent. What does this say about the role of physical chemistry in love? Read more

Dating Apps and the Intimacy Crisis

Editor's Note: January/February 2026

No one knows better than therapists that intimacy is a fundamental human need. In this issue, we explore bold, new perspectives on the current "intimacy... Read more

Flip Through the Magazine

...ON YOUR E-READER!

Check out the January/February issue of the digital magazine on the browser of your favorite device—and dive in from cover to cover! Read more

Psychotherapy's Digital Companion

Using AI to Create Personalized Rituals, Practices, and More

What if clients had a way to stay connected to therapy between sessions? AI could be a way to reinforce what therapists are already doing. Read more

Psychiatry Has a New Hero

Awais Aftab Envisions a Humbler Approach to Mental Illness

Psychiatrist Awais Aftab has been inviting the most prominent thinkers in psychiatry to move beyond familiar narratives, embrace complexity, and change the... Read more

Confronting "Mom Guilt"

A Tool to Work Through Core Emotions

Parental guilt is often misunderstood by clinicians. The Change Triangle can bring this tricky emotion out into the open and help people work through it. Read more

A Case of Disappearing Desire

Two Approaches to a Client with Commitment Issues

Sex therapist Tammy Nelson and trauma specialist Frank Anderson take different paths to empower a client struggling with intimacy. Read more

Energy Psychology's Battle for Recognition

A Growing Healing Movement vs APA's Division 12

Of 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 World

A 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

The Year That Reshaped Therapists

Editor's Note: November/December 2025

This year has felt different. There's been a lot of dysregulation in the air, and therapists are feeling it alongside their clients. Why are we feeling so... Read more

The Adoption Crisis No One Wants to Name

How Adoptee Mentorship Can Save Lives

When it comes to adoption, families need preparation that's trauma-informed and racially literate. Read more

When DNA Testing Rewrites Your Story

Processing Unexpected Genetic Discoveries in Therapy

Genetic testing has led to shocking "DNA discoveries"—secrets unburied, followed by pain, grief, and trauma. Here's how therapists can help. Read more

Rest as Revolution

An Interview with The Nap Ministry's Tricia Hersey

Modern-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

Managing the Mind to Change the Brain

How Common Myths Derail Therapy

How long does it really take to change our minds with the help of a therapist—and our brains and bodies, too? Read more

The Burnout Epidemic

Editor's Note: September/October 2025

Over the past few years, I found myself burning out on the whole problem of burnout. Then I came across The Nap Ministry. Read more

How Do We Cope with a World of Stress?

Tips for Doing Good When You're Overwhelmed

If empathy without action leads to despair, finding ways to metabolize the 24/7 news cycle is crucial to remaining well. Read more

4 Top Therapist Recommended Movies (Part I)

From Lost Connections to a Horse Documentary

A memorable, engaging film can be healing as well as entertaining. Here are movies four therapeutic movies prominent clinicians recommend. Read more

Embodied Healing in a Disembodied World

Metabolizing Intergenerational Trauma & Collective Grief

Linda 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

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Brave New Conversations on the Heart of Healing

Experience 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

IFS Made Simple for Clients

Moving From "What's Wrong with Me?" To "What Do I Need?"

IFS becomes more accessible when we translate psychological jargon into universal experiences of need and care. Read more

Answers to Therapy's Big, Slippery Questions

What Has Our Field Forgotten?

Tara Brach, Irvin Yalom, Eugene Gendlin, and Daniel Kahneman share answers to some of the biggest, most slippery questions therapists face. Read more

How Do We Cultivate Wonder?

Developing a Felt Sense

Eugene Gendlin, the developer of Focusing, explores the importance of moving beyond mindfulness to develop a whole body sense of a situation. Read more

How Do We End Suffering?

Spirituality, Therapy and the Middle Way

Tara Brach explores the importance of honoring clients' personal stories without getting lost in a spiritually limiting notion of the self. Read more

A renowned trauma expert tracks the historical contours of our culture's ambivalent relationship with trauma—and shares his hopes for the field. Read more

The Orgasm Gap

7 Strategies to Help Women Experience Sexual Pleasure

Many women struggle with orgasm in heterosexual relationships. Here are seven strategies therapists can use to empower female clients to experience more... Read more

Body Grief

How Do We Trust Our Changing Bodies?

How do we learn to trust a changing, chronically ill body? Read more

Psychotherapy Networker has won awards not only for its insightful articles, but for its beautiful design. Want to flip through the pages of the latest issue... Read more