The Hearing
From an Evening of Storytelling 2018A therapist tries to ride to the rescue of an immigrant client in a desperate situation. Read more
The Symposium and the Psychology of Shopping
Highlights from Symposium 2018In Networker editor Rich Simon’s introduction to the conference, he likened it to a deeply stimulating marketplace of ideas, where clinicians get an expanded... Read more
The Retiring Rebel
Rethinking the Way We Help Clients Face the Midlife CrisisRather than thinking of midlife as an emotional unraveling, I believe it’s more helpful to reframe this stage of life in our early 50s and 60s as “second... Read more
Jump-Starting Conversation in Family Therapy
The Difference Between Guiding and InterveningHow do you get family members to talk together productively? Enactments can be among the most valuable tools for getting a family's communication going. But... Read more
Six Ways to Find Comedy in Even the Darkest Moments
Shaking Your Clients Loose from Their Tragic StancesTherapy, in order to shake people loose from their tragic stances and bounce them into the human comedy, is at its best when it is funny, when the tragic... Read more
Therapists Talk Gun Violence
Brainstorming Ways to Make a DifferenceAs an estimated half-a-million protestors poured into downtown Washington, DC for the March for Our Lives, therapists who were in town for their field’s... Read more