Professional Development

The Therapy Beat August 28, 2024

The Esther Perel Phenomenon

When Did Mental Health Become Entertainment?

Therapy is having a moment right now, with clinicians filling our social media feeds, bestseller lists, and concert halls. How did we get here? And where are... Read more

In Consultation August 28, 2024

Therapists Take the Stand

What You Need to Know about Being an Expert Witness

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

Esther Perel on Working with Sexuality to Transform Relationships

And Busting Myths about Today’s Relationships

Observe relationship expert Esther Perel in action as she helps couples navigate infidelity, incompatibility, and the impacts of childhood trauma. Read more

Terry Real on Achieving Breakthrough Results with Difficult Men

Transforming Behaviors by Facing Narcissists, Bullies, and Avoidants Head On

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

So, You Want to be a Couples Therapist?

Getting Started in Couples Counseling

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

Janina Fisher explores how to help your clients heal the parts of self-hatred and treat attachment trauma. Read more

Point of View January 3, 2024

Existentialism for a New Era

The Millennial Therapist on Self-Creation

Sara Kuburic, the Millennial Therapist, invites new clients to take a deep look at age-old existential concerns. Read more

Ready or Not, AI Is Here

What If Therapy Bots Become Too Good?

A clinician on the precipice of launching his own AI therapy bot—HIPAA-compliant, infused with personal warmth, and based on thousands of hours of therapy... Read more

Saying Goodbye to Work You Love

How Do Therapists Know When It's Time to Retire?

The uniqueness of a psychotherapist’s job can make it hard to let go of. Read more

Are ACEs as Determinative as We Think?

Two Trauma Experts on Connection, Community, and the Tyranny of Diagnosis

Two leading trauma experts discuss the power of enduring relational work and how our current medical model creates a moral injury for therapists. Read more

Can AI Make Us Better Therapists?

Using New Technology for Supervision

AI is already being used to create treatment plans, track client change, and detect empathy. How else could it help therapists? Read more

Supporting Our Dreams as Therapists

A Conversation with Shadeen Francis and Alexandra Solomon

Watch Shadeen Francis and Alexandra Solomon discuss how clinicians can work together to achieve their professional development goals. Read more

Am I A Good Therapist Yet?

Reconciling Professional Ideals with Reality

Lofty 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

Action Man Meets Therapy Guy

Switching Careers in Midlife

When a journalist and rock climber decides to become a therapist, he embarks on a new understanding of himself. Read more

Editor's Note: November/December 2023

Practical Advice for New Therapists

A recent survey shows that fewer than half of people who graduate from therapy training programs ever make it to licensure. Why are so many emerging therapists... Read more

Love Letters to The Field

Supporting Our Big, Hairy, Audacious Dreams

By cultivating professional relationships across differences in ages and clinical experience, we keep each other’s big dreams alive, bridge knowledge gaps... Read more

Finding Your Way As a New Clinician

Three Tips to Guide Your First Session

After 34 years in practice, a therapist offers advice on what to remember before seeing your first client. Read more

Gifts of the Emerging Therapist

Tapping into the Power of Starting Out

Clinical experience is invaluable, but there are many unsung advantages to seeing therapists who are just starting out. Read more

The Long, Lonely Trek to Licensure

Is Becoming a Therapist Harder than Ever?

Many beginning therapists are burning out and leaving the field before they’re able to gain their professional footing. How can we support them better? Read more

An out-of-the-box idea from two enterprising college students reignites the passion of a former supervisor. Read more

Watch expert, Dr. Jill Stoddard, to discuss this extreme version of self-doubt with Director of Psychotherapy Networker, Zach Taylor. Here, she separates fact... Read more

One Foot In, One Foot Out

Enhance Clinical Effectiveness and Protect Against Compassion Fatigue

I've learned to not drown in my clients’ sorrow or hopelessness, but rather help them connect with their strengths and options to get the most out of our... Read more

Point of View September 1, 2023

An Emotionally Focused Path to Healing Trauma

Accessing the Resource of Relationships

Sue Johnson, developer of EFT, argues that because we’re socially bonded beings, trauma is always about relationships—and relationships are key to healing... Read more

Get advice from a publishing expert on the New Voices Award and how to win a $50,000 book publishing contract. Read more

Therapists Need Help Too

A Personal Story about the Importance of Self-Care

Why would a therapist need to see a therapist? Dr. JaQuinda Jackson discusses the reasons why mental health clinicians need professional help more than anyone... Read more

Sue Johnson and The Emotionally-Focused Individual

…And How She Stays Passionate about Helping Others

Networker sits down with Sue Johnson to discuss her shift from couples to Emotionally-Focused Individual Therapy. Read more

Preparing for the End of Therapy

A Walk into the Unknown

Regardless of your expertise or advanced degree, client terminations can derail you at any time. So why don't we do a better job of planning for them? Read more

As part of his Secrets of the Masters interview series, Rick Miller talks with Terry Real about his lengthy career in the mental health field and how it all... Read more

Join Dr. Sue Johnson, developer of Emotionally Focused-Individual Therapy (EFIT), along with Networker’s Anna Lock as they discuss everything EFIT. Read more

Clinician's Quandary December 5, 2022

When Medication Gets in the Way

Listening, Collaborating, and Helping Clients “Choose Their Own Adventure”

"One of my clients takes prescription medication for anxiety and often complains about the negative side effects. I can’t help but feel it’s getting in the... Read more