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The Power of Movement in Therapy
Helping Clients Get UnstuckA therapist shows how allowing her clients to physically move their bodies in therapy helps them process their emotions. Read more
Helping Couples Ask for What They Want
Communication in Couples CounselingA therapist explains why it's so hard for partners to ask for what they need and how couples counseling can help. Read more
Janina Fisher on Treating the Parts of Attachment Trauma
Taking Apart Self-HatredJanina Fisher explores how to help your clients heal the parts of self-hatred and treat attachment trauma. Read more
Beyond Cancer
A Story of Resilience, Growth, and Mental HealthA therapist reflects on her cancer journey and what her diagnosis meant for not only the rest of her life but also her mental health. Read more
Editor’s Note: January/February 2024
AI and the TherapistThis issue explores our work as therapists in the shadow of AI as well as how professional and personal lives collide. Read more
From Grind Culture to Work Malaise
The Cultural Trends Driving Our Clients' CareersWhat are the cultural messages feeding younger generations’ ambivalence and anxiety about their professional lives? Read more
Shame and Blame in Couples Therapy
A Therapist's Misstep Sparks RepairA clinical rupture becomes an opportunity to help a couple move beyond the pursue-withdraw cycle. Read more
Tapping Our Way into Healing
A Simple, Empowering Tool for Self-regulationTapping, a simple tool for self-regulation, can be surprisingly fun and easy to teach clients. Read more
Is Honesty the Best Policy?: A Review of 'You Hurt My Feelings'
A New Film on Flattery, White Lies, and Nondirective TherapyA wry exploration of how we handle challenges to our egos, even in therapy Read more
Existentialism for a New Era
The Millennial Therapist on Self-CreationSara Kuburic, the Millennial Therapist, invites new clients to take a deep look at age-old existential concerns. Read more
Organizational Management at Home
An Interview with Eve Rodsky on Workplace Tools for CouplesThe business world has well-honed tools for making sure employees feel valued and fulfilled. Can they be used to solve a core issue that brings many couples to... Read more
Wrestling with a Daughter's Faith
An Agnostic Mother Learns the Challenge of True AcceptanceA family with stark religious differences finds its way. Read more
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
Releasing Guilt in Grief
The Vital Shift from Prevention to PostventionWhen preventing death or tragedy is no longer an option, we need to enter a radically different headspace. Read more
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
The Bot Will See You Now
My Illuminating Chat with PiWhen it comes down to it, what do human therapists really have over artificially intelligent ones? Read more
Turning the Spotlight on Brainspotting
Did an Unexpected Discovery Reveal a Quicker Path to Healing?A look at the rise, mysteries, and controversies of Brainspotting, David Grand’s popular trauma-processing technique. Read more
Work Issues at the Heart of Couples' Conflicts
Exploring Our Relationships with Our JobsThe move beyond “Where do you work?” “How much do you work?” and “How’s it going?” is long overdue in couples therapy. Read more
Are ACEs as Determinative as We Think?
Two Trauma Experts on Connection, Community, and the Tyranny of DiagnosisTwo leading trauma experts discuss the power of enduring relational work and how our current medical model creates a moral injury for therapists. Read more
Is the Soul of Therapy For Sale?
When Private Equity Infiltrates Our PracticeBig business and private investment firms have turned their attention to our field, and they’re not above poaching clients, underpaying clinicians, and... Read more
Can AI Make Us Better Therapists?
Using New Technology for SupervisionAI is already being used to create treatment plans, track client change, and detect empathy. How else could it help therapists? Read more
The Best and Beloved Stories from 2023
Our Staff Picks from a Year of Psychotherapy NetworkerHere are the Psychotherapy Networker magazine articles that were the most read and most loved amongst our editors. Read more
Supporting Our Dreams as Therapists
A Conversation with Shadeen Francis and Alexandra SolomonWatch Shadeen Francis and Alexandra Solomon discuss how clinicians can work together to achieve their professional development goals. Read more
Practice Tools: January/February 2024
The best from across the field of psychotherapy . . . on us!This month’s selection is from Laura Copley’s, Loving You is Hurting Me: A New Approach to Healing Trauma Bonds and Creating Authentic Connection. Read more
Wrestling with Fear as a Jewish Therapist
Finding the Light in the Darkness"There’s an unfamiliar pressure around my brain that’s been building since Hamas’s attack last month. My worry isn’t just for my family, it’s for... Read more
Moral Injury: The Missing Piece in Treating Trauma
A Conversation with Jack SaulResearch shows that the bigger driver of suicide amongst veterans isn’t PTSD, but moral injury. Understanding what moral injury is and how it’s distinct... Read more
Reclaiming Black Imagination
The PRIDE Approach to HealingA new approach embraces the somatic wisdom and indigenous knowledge of BIPOC clients. Read more
Am I A Good Therapist Yet?
Reconciling Professional Ideals with RealityLofty 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
Spiritual Issues in Secular Treatment
When a Client Wants to Reconnect with Their FaithAre therapists equipped to support clients who want to reconnect with their spiritual faith? Read more
Action Man Meets Therapy Guy
Switching Careers in MidlifeWhen a journalist and rock climber decides to become a therapist, he embarks on a new understanding of himself. Read more