Clinical Skills & Experience
The Client No One Wants to Treat
What Happens When We Shun Pedophiles in Our PracticesAdvocates are calling on more therapists to consider how they can help people whose inclinations toward minors most of us find abhorrent. Read more
Taking Sides in Couples Therapy
The Importance of Ditching NeutralityWhen one partner is clearly in the wrong, being an impartial couples therapist can do more harm than good. Read more
The Dual Nature of Trauma Bonding
Beyond Abuser and VictimPartners 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
Experiments In Being Someone Else
Can Fixed-Role Therapy Get Clients Unstuck?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
Practice Tools: May/June 2024
The best from across the field of psychotherapy . . . on us!Download a worksheet from this month’s selection: Nancy Johnston's "The Clinician’s Codependency Treatment Workbook." Read more
The Enduring Power of Bioenergetic Therapy
From Trauma to JoySometimes, transformational growth happens when we least expect it. Read more
What Story Does Your Voice Tell?
Insights from a Speech CoachWhen we can explore our relationship to our own voice, we can harness one of the most direct paths to authenticity and connection. Read more
Inviting Your Inner Critic for Coffee
Why Is It So Hard to Show Up for Ourselves?When it comes to self-talk, a therapist explores our tendency to be our worst enemy. Read more
Unlocking the Potential of Holistic Healing
Four Strategies to Bring the Body into TherapyAs 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
Cultivating Relationships in Real Life
Seven Strategies for Guiding Lonely Young AdultsBy 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
Ending a Marriage That's Already Over
Helping Women Move Beyond the Paralysis of GuiltThe 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
Terry Real on Achieving Breakthrough Results with Difficult Men
Transforming Behaviors by Facing Narcissists, Bullies, and Avoidants Head OnLearn how to work with narcissists, bullies, avoidants and other difficult male clients with leading expert Terry Real. Read more
Practice Tools: March/April 2024
The best from across the field of psychotherapy . . . on us!This month’s selection is from Mariel Buqué’s, Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma. Read more
AI in Therapy
A Conversation with Matthias BarkerWhat happens when AI enters the therapy room? Therapist influencer Matthias Barker chats with Networker editor in chief Livia Kent. Read more
So, You Want to be a Couples Therapist?
Getting Started in Couples CounselingAn experienced clinician shares how emerging therapists can get started in couples therapy. Read more
The Power of Movement in Therapy
Helping Clients Get UnstuckA therapist shows how allowing her clients to physically move their bodies in therapy helps them process their emotions. Read more
Helping Couples Ask for What They Want
Communication in Couples CounselingA therapist explains why it's so hard for partners to ask for what they need and how couples counseling can help. Read more
Shame and Blame in Couples Therapy
A Therapist's Misstep Sparks RepairA clinical rupture becomes an opportunity to help a couple move beyond the pursue-withdraw cycle. Read more
Tapping Our Way into Healing
A Simple, Empowering Tool for Self-regulationTapping, a simple tool for self-regulation, can be surprisingly fun and easy to teach clients. Read more
Releasing Guilt in Grief
The Vital Shift from Prevention to PostventionWhen preventing death or tragedy is no longer an option, we need to enter a radically different headspace. Read more
Turning the Spotlight on Brainspotting
Did an Unexpected Discovery Reveal a Quicker Path to Healing?A look at the rise, mysteries, and controversies of Brainspotting, David Grand’s popular trauma-processing technique. Read more
Work Issues at the Heart of Couples' Conflicts
Exploring Our Relationships with Our JobsThe move beyond “Where do you work?” “How much do you work?” and “How’s it going?” is long overdue in couples therapy. Read more
The Best and Beloved Stories from 2023
Our Staff Picks from a Year of Psychotherapy NetworkerHere are the Psychotherapy Networker magazine articles that were the most read and most loved amongst our editors. Read more
Practice Tools: January/February 2024
The best from across the field of psychotherapy . . . on us!This month’s selection is from Laura Copley’s, Loving You is Hurting Me: A New Approach to Healing Trauma Bonds and Creating Authentic Connection. Read more
Wrestling with Fear as a Jewish Therapist
Finding the Light in the Darkness"There’s an unfamiliar pressure around my brain that’s been building since Hamas’s attack last month. My worry isn’t just for my family, it’s for... Read more
Moral Injury: The Missing Piece in Treating Trauma
A Conversation with Jack SaulResearch shows that the bigger driver of suicide amongst veterans isn’t PTSD, but moral injury. Understanding what moral injury is and how it’s distinct... Read more
Reclaiming Black Imagination
The PRIDE Approach to HealingA new approach embraces the somatic wisdom and indigenous knowledge of BIPOC clients. Read more
Am I A Good Therapist Yet?
Reconciling Professional Ideals with RealityLofty visions of our capabilities as therapists can fuel us early in our careers, but at some point, we have to reckon with the reality that we can’t help... Read more
Spiritual Issues in Secular Treatment
When a Client Wants to Reconnect with Their FaithAre therapists equipped to support clients who want to reconnect with their spiritual faith? Read more
Rethinking Codependence
An Attachment-Based Framework for CaregiversDoes codependency pathologize our natural willingness to help those we love? Read more