Clinical Skills & Experience

Labeling behavior in fancy neurophysiological terms can make what we do sound more scientifically rigorous than the notoriously fuzzy language of... Read more

Learning even a little about nutrition and diet can greatly enhance therapists’ ability to help clients with mood problems. Read more

Therapists must offer abused children a different felt experience of who they are. Read more

Elisha Goldstein asks clients what they need in tough moments and explains why it helps them learn to trust themselves. Read more

Much can be made of the power of positive thinking, but the real question is, why do we tend toward the negative in the first place? Read more

Judith Beck talks about an intellectual technique that she uses when doing childhood work with adult clients suffering from depression. Read more

Susan shares the latest research that backs up the central principle of EFT Read more

David Burns discusses the key to reaching resistant clients—and it's not a new technique. Read more

Jeff Auerbach discusses the differences between therapy and coaching. Read more

Mary Jo Barrett talks about grounding during session to be in the moment. Read more

Mitch Handelsman explains integrating psychotherapy and ethics acculturation. Read more

Psychotherapy Networker Founder Rich Simon talks to Ken Hardy about how self-disclosure is part of the power structure in the therapy room. Read more

Lisa Ferentz discusses how to effectively terminate therapy with a client. Read more

When routines and habits become as lifeless as the manner in which one brushes one’s teeth, when the choreography of one’s existence resembles a... Read more

Making yourself profoundly unhappy takes tenacity and creativity. But the real art of it is to behave in ways that allow you to claim yourself to be an... Read more

How do you help 200 teenagers who’ve had to flee their country find a path to peace in a new place? A psychiatrist who’s traveled across the world to help... Read more

Frederic Reamer explains the importance of documentation and how it can save you from potential legal woes, even when you’re sure you’re in the right. Read more

Romantically infatuated with the idea of psychological revelation—aka the therapeutic “breakthrough”—therapists too often ignore the fact that a... Read more

Gary Greenberg deconstructs the DSM and how it affects the field and your practice. Read more

Most clinicians already know the basic questions to ask about a client’s suicidality, but it’s important to go beyond a rote assessment to get a fuller... Read more

When clients feel blocked, therapists can help them tap their inner artist and view feelings of vulnerability, doubt, and fear as part of a creative... Read more

Watch Richard Brown and Patricia Gerbarg demonstrate a therapeutic breathing exercise used to treat anxiety in session. Read more

Sue Johnson shares how EFT helps couples get and stay closer. Read more

James Gordon shares a technique he uses with clients to help them get out of hopeless thought patterns. Read more

As a growing body of research shows, deep change doesn’t come when clients just talk about their problems: it results from the impact of an emotionally... Read more

To have real therapeutic impact, we need to help clients learn to relate to themselves and the world in entirely new ways. Read more

Given their arrogance, condescension, and lack of empathy, narcissists are notoriously difficult clients. The key to working with them is being direct and... Read more

Recently, therapists have begun to use simple, no-mat yoga practices to help clients whose minds are racing or fogged. Read more

There are some clients who yell at us, manipulate us, go broodingly silent on us, have uncontrollable emotional breakdowns in session, disappear for weeks at a... Read more

With all the recent developments in research, theory, and practice, we have more treatment options to choose from than ever before. Why then do so many... Read more