The Field
Is Prolonged Grief a Disorder?
Exploring the New DSM DiagnosisAccording to grief experts, does a new diagnosis in the DSM pathologize a critical component of the human experience? Read more
Leaning toward the Light
Mary Pipher Turns Her Gaze InwardIn her new memoir, Mary Pipher refuses to dumb down what it takes to create a rewarding life. Read more
Cultivating Empathy
Do We Really Know How Our Clients Feel?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
VIDEO: A Special Invitation
Pat Ogden’s Complex Trauma Master ClassWatch this special invitation to her Networker Master Class, and discover how Sensorimotor Psychotherapy can be woven into interventions you’re already... Read more
VIDEO: Prolonged Grief Disorder
Does This New Diagnosis Help or Hurt?What does the diagnosis of prolonged grief disorder mean to clinicians and grieving individuals? Read more
A Vehicle of Awakening
Can Psychotherapy Be a Spiritual Practice?In The Zen of Therapy, psychiatrist Mark Epstein explores what a Buddhist therapy has offered his clients. Read more
Healing in the Outback
An Outdoor Therapist Reconceives His RolePsychotherapy 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
Crossing the Urban-Rural Divide
Time to Address Unchallenged PrejudicesIn Hammerfest, Norway, known as the northernmost town in the world, a therapist is challenging geographical narcissism. Read more
Cognitive Processing Therapy in Action
Treating Trauma From the Top DownWhen it comes to designating best practices for treating trauma, where does the research stand? And where is the field going? Read more
Mental Health or Marxism?
Therapists on the Fight over Social Emotional Learning in SchoolsSocial-emotional learning isn’t entirely new, but as more districts emphasize the curricula in the wake of COVID, confusion from parents appears to be on the... Read more
Suicide as a State of Being
One Man's Ongoing StruggleA new memoir from celebrated writer Donald Antrim reflects on the nature of suicide. Read more
Burnout and the Body
Emily Nagoski on Naming the Real EnemySelf-care has long been touted as a panacea for burnout. Emily Nagoski has a different solution. Read more
When Therapists Encourage Family Cutoffs
Are We Helping or Harming?Today’s culture of therapy both reflects and contributes to our nation’s ever-growing embrace of individualism—for better and, sometimes, for worse. Read more
Whatever Happened to Family Therapy?
Today's Renaissance in Systems ThinkingIn their rush to change family systems—if not the world—family therapists didn’t anticipate that they too would be affected by structural forces. Read more
Total Liberation
A Buddhist Approach to HealingWhat would therapy look like if the focus was on liberating a client from their setbacks, rather than simply diluting their symptoms? Read more
“You Have Borderline Personality Disorder”
Sharing a Difficult Diagnosis with a ClientTherapists need to consider not only what diagnosis to give, but also the pain or hardship that can result from sharing it with a client. Read more
Rage Rooms
Stress Relief’s New Darlings?Are rage rooms a passing fad? Or a symptom of a larger issue? Read more
The Therapists Who Raised Me
Tales from a Terrace Talk VeteranWhen becoming a therapist feels like part of our genetic makeup. Read more
Decolonizing Mental Health
The Healing Power of CommunityTraining must go beyond the intellectual exercise of grasping the concept of racism. The real work is getting out of our chairs and going into our communities... Read more
A Therapist's 40-Year Learning Curve
Maybe the Hard Way Is How We Learn BestOver 40 years, a long-term client gives renowned trauma therapist Janina Fisher an opportunity to recover from clinical mistakes and apply new frameworks and... Read more
Through the One-Way Mirror
The Education of a Family TherapistAs a family therapy trainee in the 70s, it was easy to feel like part of a larger revolution. Read more
The Four Stages of Supervision
Establishing a Lasting Relationship with Your SuperviseeTeacher? Guide? Gatekeeper? Consultant? How clarifying your role as supervisor helps. Read more
The New Supervision
Are We Meeting the Needs of Today’s Therapists?The stakes for quality supervision are high. And yet, live supervision is increasingly considered more a bonus than a staple. Read more
Editor's Note: November/December 2021
Training for Today's TherapyWe’re in the midst of a major shift in our understanding of just what clinical trainees need to know in order to be an effective therapist in today’s world. Read more
A Difficult Reconnection After Estrangement
Helping an Adult Child HealA client estranged from his mother for 15 years recently told his therapist he wants to reconnect with her. Here, five therapists weigh in. Read more
Activism and Mental Health
A Conversation with Judge Ginger Lerner-WrenNetworker Content Editor Meaghan Winter sat down for a live conversation with Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren, pioneer of America's first mental health court and... Read more
Should Therapists Go Back to an Office?
Deepening Our Work “Off Stage”Seeing clients through the COVID-19 crisis has shown us not only that psychotherapy can be effective outside the traditional frame—complete with an office... Read more
Unhealed Bodies
Looking at Ancestral TraumaResmaa Menakem, author of "My Grandmother’s Hands," discusses racialized trauma and a body-based path to healing. Read more
Vulnerable Together
Therapists Share Their Own Mental Health StrugglesDespite our best intentions, sometimes our problems grow so big that they slam into our work—and the result can be surprising. Read more
Recovering from Helper Syndrome
5 Levels of Compassion to Foster Growth as TherapistsIs the problem with compassion fatigue that we get tired of being compassionate toward others—or that we aren’t being compassionate toward ourselves? Read more

