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Editor's Note: May/June 2025

Exploring Therapy's Shifting Boundaries & Ethical Sinkholes

This issue aims to draw attention to underlying forces having a big effect not only on the individual practices of on-the-ground therapists, but on the... Read more

How to Build Your Brand as a Therapist

9 Influencers Reveal Their Unconventional Choices

Nine successful therapists reveal their most unconventional steps to branding themselves as mental health influencers. Read more

The Ever-Shifting Norms of Psychotherapy

Four Thought Leaders on Our Evolving Field

Four thought-leaders take stock of the shifting contours of our field. Read more

The Case of the Late Client

Janina Fisher & Gabor Maté Tackle a Clinical Challenge

Two renowned experts show you how they’d work with the same client in Psychotherapy Networker’s version of The Gloria Tapes. Read more

Medical Professionals Need Intensive Care

When Feelings are Seen as a Job Hazard

How can therapists help medical professionals process difficult experiences when their profession demands stoicism and invulnerability? Read more

Why We Need a Diagnostic Revolution

Steven Hayes (ACT) on Developing a More Holistic Psychotherapy

After a moment of crisis, ACT co-founder Steven Hayes began tearing up the floorboards of our most popular diagnostic frameworks—and what he discovered was... Read more

Starting a Coaching Practice

The Benefits of Therapists Opening a Side Business

For burnt-out therapists, opening a coaching business in the right way and for the right reasons can be a reinvigorating side-gig. Read more

Are Supervisors Failing the Field?

Why Minoritized Supervisees Are Leaving

Too many minoritized supervisees are leaving the field. How do we hold on to them? Read more

Which Retirement Plan Should You Choose?

A Therapist’s Guide to 401(k)s, IRAs, and More

Therapists have multiple options when it comes to saving for retirement. From 401(k)s to IRAs and more, here's how to figure out which plans are best for you. Read more

Psychotherapy Networker has won awards not only for its insightful articles, but for its beautiful design. Want to flip through the pages of the latest issue... Read more

Autism and Disordered Eating

What You May Be Missing and Misdiagnosing

The overlap between autism and eating disorders is poorly understood, even by many eating disorder specialists. Read more

The PDA Lens

A New Vision for Supporting a Nervous System Disability

What would you do if your active but chronically dysregulated four-year-old stopped speaking, eating, and moving, and everyone you turned to for... Read more

Today's Autism and Teens

Grappling with Identity, Belonging, and Self-Acceptance

When it comes to teens who’ve found belonging and understanding in the autism community, our job is more about validating than diagnosing. Read more

Forging a Multicultural Identity

How to Move from Isolation to Fusion

How can we help our clients work through the inner torment of trying to occupy two cultural identities at once when they don’t fully feel they belong to... Read more

The Client Who's Tried Everything

ACT and ISTDP Tackle One Challenging Case

How do you approach a first session with a client who's tried all kinds of different therapies and yet continues to struggle? Steven Hayes, the cofounder of... Read more

9 Top Apps Therapists Recommend to Clients

From Mindfulness to Your Natal Chart

Discover the top therapist-recommended apps to improve your mental health and well-being, including an app that rates mental health apps! Read more

Breaking the Cycle of High-Functioning Codependency

When Helper’s High Goes Too Far

Many therapists believe their intense care and concern for clients is a form of selfless love. Maybe it’s time to rethink that. Read more

Three Blocks to Processing Trauma

Getting to the Pain Behind Spiritual Bypass

How do you navigate toxic positivity, and other forms of spiritual bypass, when it’s a block to processing trauma? Read more

An Unlikely Companion to EFT

How Can Psychedelics Enhance the Work?

Talk therapy can help couples understand their negative patterns cognitively. Adding psychedelics to the work can help them feel it. Read more

Treating the Trauma in Religious Trauma

Body-Based Healing for Faith-Based Harm

High-control religions can disconnect people from themselves—and somatic therapies are the key to helping them heal. Read more

5 Therapy Trends to Watch in 2025

The Future of Diagnosis, Trauma Treatment, Psychedelics, and More

These hot takes from Steve Hayes, Nadine Burke Harris, Ruth Lanius, and others will keep you informed and prepared for what's changing in the field of... Read more

The Spiritual Therapist

Healing and the Secular Priesthood

Most therapists don’t shy away from discussing charged topics like sex and drugs. But religion and spirituality? That’s a different story—one that a... Read more

Discerning Three Types of Anxiety

Improving Outcomes for Anxious Clients

We can all get caught up in their “anxiety whirlwind” of dysregulation, distorted thoughts, and defensiveness. Understanding some of the most common ways... Read more

Rethinking Insecure Attachment

From a Fixed Model to a Fluid Spectrum

A new framework for visualizing attachment turns a potentially pathologizing concept into a friendly clinical tool. Read more

Taking the Blindfold off Couples Therapy

A Tool for Cultivating Emergent Love

How might a panoramic view of a relationship at the start of couples therapy change what clinicians focus on? Read more

Tips to Tackle Taxes if You're in Private Practice

Simple Questions Every Therapist Should Be Asking Their CPA

Taxes, bookkeeping, and pretty much anything related to the financial side of your practice can feel complicated. Here are some simple ways to prep for your... Read more

The Funny Therapist

Dismantling Stigma, One Joke at a Time

What do therapy and comedy have in common? Therapist and comedian David Granirer has spent over two decades helping aspiring stand-up comics—many in... Read more

Soothing Dysregulation in Couples Therapy

The One Thing We Should All Do First

Is teaching partners to join forces against their stress where all couples work should begin? Read more

The Neurofeedback Question

100-Year-Old Miracle or Runaway Train?

Many people who've tried neurofeedback say it's the closest thing therapy has to a silver bullet. So why aren't more therapists using it? Read more