Trends & Advances

The field’s latest innovations and hottest debates

Ready or Not, AI Is Here

What If Therapy Bots Become Too Good?

The Bot Will See You Now

My Illuminating Chat with Pi

Is the Soul of Therapy For Sale?

When Private Equity Infiltrates Our Practice

The New Supervision

Are We Meeting the Needs of Today’s Therapists?

The Long, Lonely Trek to Licensure

Is Becoming a Therapist Harder than Ever?
Article May 6, 2025

Dive into the Digital Magazine!

The Hidden Dangers to Your Practice

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

Article May 5, 2025

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

Article May 5, 2025

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

Article May 5, 2025

The founder of Brown Girl Therapy shares her countercultural secret to building an online community. Read more

Article May 5, 2025

Bestselling author and podcaster shows you how less can be more in branding. Read more

Article May 5, 2025

A renowned therapist, author and influencer challenges the popular wisdom behind branding yourself as a therapist. Read more

Article May 5, 2025

After landing a Masterclass series, a renowned relationship expert shares her hard-won formula for discerning what projects to accept and which to turn down. Read more

Article May 5, 2025

Our field's foremost brain expert connects the dots between scientific advances and our field's evolving view of mental health. Read more

Article May 5, 2025

One of the world's leading couples therapists examines a major turning point in couples therapy—and the woman who spearheaded the change. Read more

Article May 5, 2025

A therapist, author, and longtime contributor to Psychotherapy Networker reflects on our field's entrenched reluctance to name and discuss issues of race and... Read more

Article May 5, 2025

A renowned trauma expert tracks the historical contours of our culture's ambivalent relationship with trauma—and shares his hopes for the field. Read more

Article May 5, 2025

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

Article May 5, 2025

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

Article May 5, 2025

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

Article May 5, 2025

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

Article May 5, 2025

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

Article May 5, 2025

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

Article May 5, 2025

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

Article April 24, 2025

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

Article April 1, 2025

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

Article March 12, 2025

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

Article March 7, 2025

Is Therapy Slipping into Pseudoscience?

Recognizing the Warning Signs

Are we doing enough as clinicians—and as a field—to ensure we’re using truly science-based treatments? Read more

Article March 7, 2025

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

Article March 7, 2025

What is Faceblindness?

When Brain Architecture Impacts Therapy

Therapists tend to assume all their clients can visualize safe places and past experiences. But some can’t! Read more

Article March 7, 2025

Inside The PDA Safe Circle

Supporting Vulnerable Nervous Systems in Chronic Distress

Vulnerable nervous systems that are in chronic distress require a unique approach to understanding and creating a felt sense of safety. Read more

Article March 7, 2025

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

Article March 7, 2025

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

Article March 7, 2025

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

Article March 7, 2025

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

Article March 7, 2025

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