Clinical Skills & Experience

With plenty of misconceptions about treating traumatized children, one clinician shares why it's a chance to help them share their stories and a personal... Read more

If you have to cancel an appointment and your client asks you why, how much should you disclose? Here, four clinicians share how they'd respond. Read more

Whether it's vanity, a failure to take constructive criticism, mistreating family and friends, or lacking empathy for others, clients with narcissistic traits... Read more

Before talking to your own clients about domestic and intimate partner violence, here are three myths you should know about. Read more

According to psychoanalysis, we all carry an imago—an image of our parents inside of us. But what do you do when the negative, traumatic, or unconscious... Read more

Unfortunately, there's no playbook for beginning and ending therapy. So how do you make first and last sessions not only less awkward, but memorable and... Read more

A therapist who also provides psychological first aid after critical incidents opens up about his work and shares why it's been the most challenging—and... Read more

Download this issue's FREE copy of materials that will help you in your practice. Read more

Suicide isn't simply the tragedy of someone taking their own life: it's also the long, excruciating nightmare of being left behind. Read more

Once blocks to the organic grief process are identified and removed, how can therapists choreograph corrective emotional experiences? Read more

Lynn Grodzki, LCSW, MCC, explores the ethics of client waitlists and offers best practices for establishing and maintaining them. Read more

Rather than proclaiming that you understand a client's experience, you're far better off assuming that you don't have a clue what they're going through. Read more

When couples don’t have models for mastering healthy communication skills, they may regress to old gender scripts to cope, which can feel like its own kind... Read more

Ron Taffel talks with Angela Diaz, Director of the Mount Sinai Adolescent Center, on how we can tailor our interventions to meet the unique needs of our young... Read more

Networker talks with the co-founders and clinicians of Virgils, a virtual reality platform for therapists and clients. Read more

We’ve put together a video reel of therapists sharing some of the playful moments they’ve had with clients... Read more

When our attempts to use logic and reason fail, therapeutic rituals can help clients connect to inner resources for healing. Read more

In this collection, master therapists share how they’ve used humor in ways that both enliven and enrich the work of therapy. Read more

Is there an alternative to applied behavioral analysis for children on the spectrum? Read more

Many play therapists still find themselves having to explain what they do and why it works. But after more than a century, play therapy has finally come into... Read more

Shared laughter is an attachment language. Though therapists usually engage more knowingly with tears, the exchange of brighter affect is another kind of... Read more

Networker talks with Michael Alcée as he offers powerful strategies drawn from the field of improv that will help you find your voice while navigating the... Read more

Networker talks with Shawna Murray-Browne about ways to bridge racial barriers in and outside of the therapy room. Read more

What does the diagnosis of prolonged grief disorder mean to clinicians and grieving individuals? Read more

Join Mona Delahooke, therapist and author of Beyond Behaviors, and Guy Stephens, founder and director of the Alliance Against Seclusion and Restraint, for a... Read more

Five things every therapist needs to know about working with older clients. Read more

I’ve been finding a particular short meditation practice helpful in supporting my clients during this period of sadness, loss, and exhaustion. It’s more... Read more

The hardest part of letting go of anger can be accepting that the offending party is never going to apologize, never going to see themselves objectively, and... Read more

Psychotherapy needs alternatives to the century-old approach of sit and talk. When you’re open to the spirit of adventure, you never feel stuck. Read more

Being an expert in your method is only part of the work. Sometimes our clients need us to go beyond administering a protocol. Read more