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You're Attracted to Your Client?!
5 Clinicians Offer Guidance on a Dreaded Ethical DilemmaIt 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 RelationshipPoetry 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 2026No 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 MoreWhat 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 IllnessPsychiatrist 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 EmotionsParental 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 IssuesSex 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 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
The Year That Reshaped Therapists
Editor's Note: November/December 2025This 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 LivesWhen 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 TherapyGenetic 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 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
Managing the Mind to Change the Brain
How Common Myths Derail TherapyHow 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 2025Over 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 OverwhelmedIf 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 DocumentaryA 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 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
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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
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 SenseEugene 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 WayTara 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 PleasureMany 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
Dive into the Digital Magazine!
The New AutismPsychotherapy 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