Clinical Skills & Experience

Do your therapy clients ask you for advice? We asked 5 top therapists what they do when clients say, “Just tell me what to do!” Read more

The FEELINGS - ACTIONS - SENSATIONS tool from Thomas Doherty helps clients reach desired emotional states Read more

You know your clinical expertise is of value to your clients, but it can also be important for judges and juries in court. Read more

Do interpersonal conflicts about environmental choices require a unique approach to boundary setting? Read more

The mindful practice of birding can help us find balance in challenging times. Read more

Opening up to the realities of climate change means opening up to feeling threatened. But while the situation is worse than many of us know, it’s also better... Read more

Are you matching your self-presentation and efforts with your clients' emotional capacity to respond? Read more

What do you do when your client comes to session with nothing to say? Longtime experts in the field offer how to get the conversation going. Read more

This month’s selection is from Lindsay Gibson’s Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents Guided Journal: Your Space to Heal, Reflect and Reconnect... Read more

Watch our interview with relationship expert Tammy Nelson on how ketamine is supercharging couples work. Read more

From his Symposium workshop, Bessel van der Kolk singles out the one question therapists should be asking their traumatized clients. Read more

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

Learning how to tune into the subtle shifts that are going on inside us all the time can open us to a wholeness that I call the Authentic Self. Read more

Advocates are calling on more therapists to consider how they can help people whose inclinations toward minors most of us find abhorrent. Read more

When one partner is clearly in the wrong, being an impartial couples therapist can do more harm than good. Read more

Partners who associate love and intimacy with the painful family dynamics of their formative years can get stuck in a familiar bond that’s hard to shake... Read more

Trying on different personas can help clients step outside of their comfort zones and challenge their assumptions about themselves, others, and the world. Read more

Download a worksheet from this month’s selection: Nancy Johnston's "The Clinician’s Codependency Treatment Workbook." Read more

Sometimes, transformational growth happens when we least expect it. Read more

When we can explore our relationship to our own voice, we can harness one of the most direct paths to authenticity and connection. Read more

When it comes to self-talk, a therapist explores our tendency to be our worst enemy. Read more

As the world embraces the theory of how trauma is captured in the body, clinicians are introducing clients to holistic healing techniques like sound baths and... Read more

By asking the right questions in therapy, we can help make the road to adulthood less lonely for high school and college-age kids. Read more

The person burdened with the decision of whether or not to end a marriage may not be the one who’s already left the marriage—emotionally or sexually. Read more

Learn how to work with narcissists, bullies, avoidants and other difficult male clients with leading expert Terry Real. Read more

This month’s selection is from Mariel Buqué’s, Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma. Read more

What happens when AI enters the therapy room? Therapist influencer Matthias Barker chats with Networker editor in chief Livia Kent. Read more

An experienced clinician shares how emerging therapists can get started in couples therapy. Read more

A therapist shows how allowing her clients to physically move their bodies in therapy helps them process their emotions. Read more

A therapist explains why it's so hard for partners to ask for what they need and how couples counseling can help. Read more