Professional Development

Building a practice and deepening your profession
Article August 12, 2024

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

Article May 7, 2024

Peter Levine on Going Beyond Talk Therapy to Heal Trauma

Using Somatic Experiencing® to Tap into the Unspoken Voice of Our Bodies

Learning how to tune into the subtle shifts that are going on inside us all the time can open us to a wholeness that I call the Authentic Self. Read more

Article May 1, 2024

How Psychedelic Therapy Will Change Your Practice

Bessel van der Kolk & Monnica Williams on the Future of Trauma Healing

Bessel van der Kolk and Monnica Williams, two prominent trauma researchers, weigh in on what the field should be talking about now that psychedelic-assisted... Read more

Article May 1, 2024

Experiments In Being Someone Else

Can Fixed-Role Therapy Get Clients Unstuck?

Trying on different personas can help clients step outside of their comfort zones and challenge their assumptions about themselves, others, and the world. Read more

Article February 6, 2024

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

Article January 17, 2024

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

Article January 4, 2024

This issue explores our work as therapists in the shadow of AI as well as how professional and personal lives collide. Read more

Article January 3, 2024

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

Article January 3, 2024

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

Article January 3, 2024

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

Article January 3, 2024

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

Video December 15, 2023

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

Article November 3, 2023

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

Article November 3, 2023

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

Article November 3, 2023

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

Article November 3, 2023

What Do Therapists Know?

Learning and Growing Alongside Our Clients

As therapists, we get to explore the mysteries of being human for a living—and to apply what we learn to our own lives. How amazing is that? Read more

Article November 3, 2023

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

Article November 3, 2023

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

Article November 3, 2023

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

Article November 3, 2023

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

Article November 3, 2023

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

Video October 9, 2023

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

Article September 28, 2023

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

Article 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

Article July 12, 2023

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

Article January 30, 2023

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

Video December 10, 2022

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

Article July 15, 2022

Confessions of a Psychological First Responder

A Different Approach to the Healing Craft

A therapist who also provides psychological first aid after critical incidents opens up about his work and shares why it's been the most challenging—and... Read more

Article March 20, 2022

Humility First

Avoiding Transcultural Overreach

There’s no recipe book when it comes to working with another culture. Read more

Article March 7, 2022

The Power of Humor

Five Ways Therapists Put This “Best Medicine” to Use

Therapy can be serious, but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t room for a joke here and there. Here, clinicians share how they used humor to help clients... Read more

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