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Decolonizing Mental Health
The Healing Power of CommunityTraining must go beyond the intellectual exercise of grasping the concept of racism. The real work is getting out of our chairs and going into our communities... Read more
Beyond the Brain-Body Split
A Relational Neuroscience PerspectiveThinking about behavior only in terms of reinforcement and consequence is outdated. It’s not mind over matter. It’s both. Are new therapists getting that... Read more
A Therapist's 40-Year Learning Curve
Maybe the Hard Way Is How We Learn BestOver 40 years, a long-term client gives a therapist an opportunity to recover from clinical mistakes and apply new frameworks and modalities. Read more
Embracing Our Core Competencies
How Would It Change the Practice of Therapy?Training to become technicians in particular areas isn’t what best serves our clients. Read more
Therapy, Fast and Slow
Training Clinicians to Balance Doing with BeingHow do therapists create a great training culture, one in which we become substantially better at what we do? Read more
Through the One-Way Mirror
The Education of a Family TherapistAs a family therapy trainee in the 70s, it was easy to feel like part of a larger revolution. Read more
The Four Stages of Supervision
Establishing a Lasting Relationship with Your SuperviseeTeacher? Guide? Gatekeeper? Consultant? How clarifying your role as supervisor helps. Read more
The New Supervision
Are We Meeting the Needs of Today’s Therapists?The stakes for quality supervision are high. And yet, live supervision is increasingly considered more a bonus than a staple. Read more
Editor's Note: November/December 2021
Training for Today's TherapyWe’re in the midst of a major shift in our understanding of just what clinical trainees need to know in order to be an effective therapist in today’s world. Read more
Escaping the Rut of Regret
Five Creative Approaches to Letting GoA client has a lot of regret about past decisions he’s made, and although his therapist has talked with him about them at length, the client still can't seem... Read more
A Difficult Reconnection After Estrangement
Helping an Adult Child HealA client who’s been estranged from his mother for 15 years recently told his therapist he wants to reconnect with her. The therapist isn't sure how to... Read more
On Turning Pain into Power
An Interview with Dr. ShefaliThe clinician and bestselling author discusses her new book and what it means to "alchemize" pain. Read more
A Simple Practice for Finding Light in the Dark
Helping Kids Remain Calm When the World Seems ScaryGiven the wildfires, Covid variants, hurricanes, droughts, earthquakes and periods of social unrest that abound these days, the world can feel like a scary... Read more
Activism and Mental Health
A Conversation with Judge Ginger Lerner-WrenNetworker Content Editor Meaghan Winter sat down for a live conversation with Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren, pioneer of America's first mental health court and... Read more
To Take Notes or Not to Take Notes?
When a Valuable Tool Becomes a DistractionWhen a therapist begins to sense that her in-session note taking may be distracting her clients and impeding their work together, she begins to wonder whether... Read more
Should Therapists Go Back to an Office?
Deepening Our Work “Off Stage”Seeing clients through the COVID-19 crisis has shown us not only that psychotherapy can be effective outside the traditional frame—complete with an office... Read more
To Interrupt Anxiety, Try Singing
An Interview with Margaret WehrenbergOver the last year and a half, therapists have been pushed to the limit listening to clients worry, ruminate, grieve, and suffer in magnified ways. And we’ve... Read more
Forging Your Own Path
A Graduate Student’s Training DilemmaA graduate student has to pick a focus to train on, but is unsure of which to choose. Here, clinicians offer advice. Read more
Therapy in the Age of Trump
Becoming "Connectors and Trust-Builders"William Doherty offered an expanded vision of therapy and outlined concrete steps therapists can take as “connectors and trust-builders” to address the... Read more
The Physics of Vulnerability
And the Courage to Show UpBestselling author Brené Brown’s opening keynote address ignited the Symposium audience with its call to take risks and have the courage to be vulnerable. Read more
Hanging Out with Dick Van Dyke
A Lesson in Stepping UpAn encounter with a superstar teaches a young woman about courage. Read more
The Plasticity of Personality
Can We Switch Our Stripes?A new book explores the science of personality change. Read more
Unhealed Bodies
Looking at Ancestral TraumaResmaa Menakem, author of "My Grandmother’s Hands," discusses racialized trauma and a body-based path to healing. Read more
Doing Our Own Work Differently
An EMDR Portal to Our Clients’ HealingHow stepping outside our comfort zone when doing our own work can change therapy for our clients. Read more
I’d Rather Clean the Toilet than Write Progress Notes
Making Peace With An Essential TaskWriting progress notes doesn’t have to be a bore. Read more
Surrogate Partner Therapy
Crossing Lines or Expanding Boundaries?The debate around surrogate partner therapy. Read more
Love After Lockdown
What Follows Togetherness OverloadFor some couples, staying home together during COVID improved their sex lives. But many have reported the opposite experience. Now that re-entry is here, what... Read more
The Ambivalence Trap
Liberating Ourselves from the Pursuit of PerfectionA psychiatrist questions taking her own medicine. Read more
First, Make the Bed
A Gentle Path through DepressionIn the throes of depression, a therapist searches for a magic bullet. Read more
Confessions of a Racing Mind
My Silent Battle with OCDA clinician with OCD stands up to stigma. Read more