Trauma

The Social Roots of Trauma

Staci Haines on Where Our Bodies, Culture, and Healing Intersect

Therapists may feel overwhelmed by how little it seems they can do for clients suffering within large, oppressive systems. Read more

Join Christine Mark-Griffin, EMDRIA-certified therapist, and author of EMDR Workbook for Kids, along with Networker’s Clinical Director, Anna Lock, as they... Read more

When Trauma Isn't Past: Therapy in the Midst of Crisis

A Conversation with Dr. James Gordon

Join Dr. James Gordon as he discusses how you can help people even before they are out of the storm. Read more

Processing Trauma in a Flash?

A Conversation with Philip Manfield

With roots in the EMDR protocol, the Flash Technique claims to offer a pleasurable path to processing trauma. Read more

The Best and Beloved Stories from 2022

Our Staff Picks from a Year of Psychotherapy Networker

In this year-end review, the staff of Psychotherapy Networker shares the articles and interviews that most resonated with readers and authors in 2022. Read more

Rethinking PTSD

How Should We Be Defining Trauma?

Amid what some are calling "an age of trauma," have we lost sight of what clinical trauma really looks like? Read more

Recognizing Medical Trauma

How Therapists Can Intervene

Despite its pervasiveness, medical trauma often goes unrecognized. Read more

A Feeling of Fullness

Reflections on Therapy with Kids in Foster Care

With plenty of misconceptions about treating traumatized children, one clinician shares why it's a chance to help them share their stories and a personal... Read more

Coping After Tragedy

A Conversation on Collective Grief, Trauma & Healing

Networker talks with grief experts Andrea Dorn and David Kessler in the wake of the Uvalde school shooting about grief and healing as a community. Read more

Wartime Trauma Treatment

Reflections from a Therapist Treating Ukrainian Survivors

A therapist specializing in trauma treatment in the wake of human-made and natural disasters shares what she's seeing in her work with survivors of the war in... Read more

Three Myths About Domestic Violence

…And How Social Media is Changing the Way Clients Think About It

Before talking to your own clients about domestic and intimate partner violence, here are three myths you should know about. Read more

When senseless tragedy turns a child's world upside down, parents are looking for mental health support for the whole family. Read more

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

The Inheritance of Loss

A Therapist and Client Grieve Together

While grief can be a familiar creature that lives inside us, we often treat it as a stranger Read more

A Therapist Confronts Cancer

Finding a Way through the Abyss

No one can prevent the horrors of cancer, but processing this particular experience of loss with a therapist who's been through it may stave off the trauma of... Read more

VIDEO: Wartime Trauma Treatment

An Interview with Elaine Miller-Karas

Networker sits down with Elaine Miller-Karas about the trauma resources for individuals in wartime. Read more

Reframing Complex PTSD

Can Trauma Symptoms Be Assets?

Author Stephanie Foo discusses how she and other C-PTSD survivors have learned to adapt and even thrive. Read more

VIDEO: A Special Invitation

Pat Ogden’s Complex Trauma Master Class

Watch this special invitation to her Networker Master Class, and discover how Sensorimotor Psychotherapy can be woven into interventions you’re already... Read more

Agitated Kids, Dangerous Punishment

Rethinking the Policy of Seclusion and Restraint

Seclusion and restraint is a rare but extreme response to students deemed unruly. One parent, backed by some clinical allies, is drawing attention to its... Read more

Relational EMDR Therapy

Showing Up for Our Clients

Being an expert in your method is only part of the work. Sometimes our clients need us to go beyond administering a protocol. Read more

Treating Trauma From the Top Down

A Cognitive Path to Healing

When it comes to designating best practices for treating trauma, where does the research stand? And where is the field going? Read more

Two Years In, This Therapist is Angry

Addressing the Anxiety Underneath

When the pandemic first struck, I was concerned about its impact yet able to handle the anxiety about infection pretty well. After all, managing anxiety is my... Read more

Covid Comes to Therapy

Navigating Collective Trauma

For a few years now, I’ve worked with groups around the world to address collective trauma. Our focus is usually on something that had happened elsewhere and... Read more

COVID Trauma

The Invisible Pandemic

What can we do in the face of our current crisis? There are no clear answers or easy fixes. As providers, we must endeavor to do what we teach our patients: in... Read more

Is Meditation as Safe as We Think?

The Risks We Don’t Talk About

Meditation is generally considered one of the safest practices for our clients. But one organization says that’s not always the case. Read more

Unlearning Weight Stigma

The Latest Science on Weight and Trauma

It's time to untangle weight gain and binge eating from trauma. Read more

Life Without Atticus

When Siblings Parent Each Other

Children need an adult who provides safety, attunement, empathy, acceptance, and boundaries. Can a sibling be the next best thing? Read more

Total Liberation

A Buddhist Approach to Healing

What would therapy look like if the focus was on liberating a client from their setbacks, rather than simply diluting their symptoms? Read more

“You Have Borderline Personality Disorder”

Sharing a Difficult Diagnosis with a Client

Therapists need to consider not only what diagnosis to give, but also the pain or hardship that can result from sharing it with a client. Read more

Healing Beyond Words

How to Bring Art into Therapy

Integrating art therapy tools into your practice doesn’t have to be complicated, nor does it require artistic skill from you or your client. Read more