Society & Culture

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

Popular podcast host and author reveals the key she discovered to showing up authentically in the public sphere. Read more

Mental health startups were supposed to democratize therapy. Instead, they've cut therapist pay and gutted clinical teams. How can we fight back? 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

The Shocking Treatment That Never Went Away

The Story of ECT—and Its Newer, Safer Alternatives

Treating depression with electricity or magnets may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but it’s currently at the center of a raging debate. Read more

So You Wanna Be a Life Coach?

The Legal & Ethical Risks to Your Therapy Practice

More and more therapists are using life coaching as a workaround to the challenges of cross-state practice—but doing so can have serious consequences. 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

Autism Under Attack 

Autism Isn't Spreading, Misinformation Is

Misinformation about autism harms families, undermines progress, and diverts attention away from evidence-based practices that prevent neurodivergent burnout. Read more

The Orgasm Gap

7 Strategies to Help Women Experience Sexual Pleasure

Many women struggle with orgasm in heterosexual relationships. Here are seven strategies therapists can use to empower female clients to experience more... 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

Editor's Note: March/April 2025

Understanding PDA, High-Masking Clients, and Neurodivergent Burnout

Putting together this issue has changed me. And I hope it helps all therapists update their understanding of the wide spectrum of neurodivergence, and the... Read more

The Wilderness Therapy Controversy

Lifelong Trauma or Lifesaving Treatment?

An unflinching look into a shadowy corner of the for-profit troubled teen industry: wilderness therapy. Read more

Unlearning Behaviorism

The Mindshift of PDA-Informed Care

Tried-and-true behavioral strategies have been failing spectacularly in households with Pathologically Demand Avoidant children. Helping PDA families feel safe... Read more

The Transgender Community in Crisis

Confronting the Political Erasure of Trans and Nonbinary Identities

The impact of a series of executive orders targeting trans and nonbinary people has been immediate and devastating. How can therapists help? Read more

Healing a Lifetime of Neurodivergent Trauma

Accommodation, Validation, and Autistic Attunement

For many Autistic people, the trauma they carry is a result of society treating them like broken neurotypicals. Neuro-affirming care begins with providing... 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

Neurodiverse Couples Therapy

The Truth about Relationships through a Neurospicy Lens

Couples therapy was designed for neurotypical people—yet we know that neurodivergence is everywhere. How can we better identify, help, and support... 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

"I Want to Be a Good Mom"

Normalizing Post-Partum Ambivalence in Therapy

Given our culture's incessant messages about the joys of motherhood, it's critical for therapists to help new moms to speak openly and honestly about their... Read more

Pulling Our Teens Back from Internet Addiction

A Family's Nightmare Search for Help

A family confronts the reality that parents alone are ill-equipped to protect their children from online dangers. Read more

Can True Love Be Designed?

Transforming How We Experience and Express Love

Discover two models of love and how distinguishing between them can help therapists support clients in designing a conscious relationship. Read more

Supercharging Art Therapy with AI

A Surprising New Tool to Enhance Trauma Healing

For clients wary of traditional forms of creative expression, using AI art therapeutically offers a novel way to experience a more accessible, visual, and... 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

Editor's Note: January/February 2025

Spirituality and Psychotherapy

Many therapists have been trained to avoid exploring people’s religious or spiritual beliefs, lest they accidentally question them or unknowingly pull at the... Read more

Racial Trauma Assessment Tool

The Trauma Symptoms of Discrimination Scale (TSDS)

Support your BIPOC clients in gaining clarity about the frequency and types of discrimination they’ve experienced as they heal from racial trauma. Read more

The Beauty of Longing and Melancholy

Susan Cain Celebrates the Sensitive Client

"Bittersweet" invites us to better understand and celebrate the wistful, sensitive people in our lives—and in our therapy practices. Read more

The Sacred Work of Heartbreak

Relinquishing the Fantasy of Love

In a society where most people spend more time on dating apps than in places of worship, the pursuit of a romantic partner has become a holy quest. 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