Mind-Body

The Therapist as Improv Actor?

Ann Randolph on Using Acting to Access Emotions

Ann Randolph talks about one acting technique in particular that can easily be incorporated into therapy sessions to help clients express their emotions. Read more

Hearing the Body’s Truth

Three Steps to Connecting to Felt Sense

Although the idea that the mind and body are inextricably linked is widely accepted in our field, many clinicians remain too focused on words to hear the... Read more

Breathing To Balance The Stress Response System

Learn How To Use Breath Work To Alleviate Anxiety

Watch Richard Brown and Patricia Gerbarg demonstrate a therapeutic breathing exercise used to treat anxiety in session. Read more

Bringing Stressed Clients Into The Present Moment

Elisha Goldstein On The “Mindful Check-In”

Psychotherapy Networker Founder Rich Simon talks with Elisha Goldstein on the meditative technique he calls a "mindful check-in." Read more

Bringing The Mental Health Benefits Of Yoga To Your Clinical Practice

Amy Weintraub Demonstrates How Easily It’s Done

Amy Weintraub shares a quick 3-minute tutorial on how to breathe to calm the stress response system. Read more

Yoga in the Therapy Room

Centering the Uncentered Client

Recently, therapists have begun to use simple, no-mat yoga practices to help clients whose minds are racing or fogged. Read more

Cultivating Your Creativity Can Make You More Effective

Creativity expert, Michael Gelb, on 4 simple practices that can help you become a better therapist

Actively cultivating creative power can be a revelation. It changes your brain, your outlook, your perception, and your problem-solving ability. Read more

VIDEO: Our Bottom Line Responsibility as Therapists

Rick Hanson on Working with the Brain for Lasting Change

People seek us out because they want change. Some want to be less anxious or less depressed, some want to be better able to control themselves in interactions... Read more

Take a Breath

Using Yoga to Create a Sense of Well-Being in Your Office

A variety of easy-to-use yogic breathing techniques can add a new dimension to treatment with depressed and anxious clients. Read more

A Quiet Revolution

Therapists Are Learning a New Way to Be With Their Clients

If you're a therapist these days, it's hard to open a publication—or your mailbox—without hearing about mindfulness. Are the Eastern wisdom traditions... Read more

Creating a Culture of Healing

Recovering from Trauma in War-Ravaged Gaza

A psychiatrist who's worked in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Israel leads a team of healthcare professionals into war-ravaged Gaza to see if Western healing methods can... Read more

The Precarious Present

Why is it So Hard to Stay in the Moment?

All of us ruminate, bringing up the cud of old, unresolved problems. But far from being idle mind chatter, most of these mental distractions are actually the... Read more