As we learn more about the brain, it becomes apparent that therapists need to pay at least as much attention to the body and nervous system (both their own and... Read more

Not long ago, it was thought that the brain you were born with was the brain you would die with, and that the brain cells you had at birth were the most you... Read more

More than a time-consuming diversion, Facebook can play a central role in marketing your practice. Read more

Contains over 100 of the top hands-on practical worksheets and exercises for integrating CBT!  Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is the fastest-growing... Read more

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In the Networker offices, our usually frantic pace achieves new levels of mania in the early fall. Even as I sit here at my computer, we’re scrambling... Read more

A revolution in how people access and use pornography has taken the therapy community by surprise. Now some experts believe that an epidemic of porn use is... Read more

Despite all the evidence to the contrary, a new book argues that God, or at least our concept of deity, is getting more compassionate and inclusive. Read more

Is there any place more filled with despair and dread than an emergency room in the middle of the night? Read more

Open porn use introduces a relational question that most couples never face: how to live with the knowledge that your partner's erotic fantasy-world often... Read more

How to get through to clients caught in fight-flight-freeze mode. Read more

Turning problems to be diagnosed and medication into skills to be taught. Read more

A primer for web marketing for practitioners on a shoestring budget. Read more

A new grandmother, recalling the trembling fury of her own childhood, weathers a grandson's tantrum. Read more

Whether they know it or not, what most people are looking for in sex therapy isn't so much a change in specific behaviors as a way of developing a more... Read more

While so much about sexuality is brazenly public these days, we haven't advanced very far in our ability to talk about what we find most terrifying about our... Read more

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This is a book for clinicians. More specifically, it is a book for clinicians to use with their clients affected by trauma's sequelae. Unique in its... Read more

Nicole, 22 years old, slipped into the Vet Center one day last year. Small and shy as she was, her 18-month-old son, Jonathan, seemed almost bigger than she... Read more

Destructive Trends in Mental Health: The Well-Intentioned Path to Harm Edited by Rogers Wright and Nicholas Cummings. Routledge. 346 pp. ISBN... Read more

Q: As a supervisor, I often find that trainees are overly rule-bound and rigid in the way they approach clients. How can I get them to loosen up and learn to... Read more

When TV finally came, in the early '50s, the world it brought into our living rooms was black and white, and dumbed way down. Newsmen now had faces, and, as... Read more

Milton Erickson has become a legendary figure among therapists for his skill in standing the traditional idea of “resistance” on its head. With... Read more

After decades of being preoccupied with emotional pathology in all its DSM-documented permutations, psychology seems to have shifted its attention to the study... Read more

Mindfulness has become one of the hottest growth areas in the field of psychotherapy in the past few years. It’s a surprising hit even among... Read more

Therapist Jane Cibel really makes her clients sweat. After a brief check-in, during which they report how their lives and therapy homework have gone in the... Read more

Modern therapy has given scant attention to morally elevated emotions like awe, gratitude, and admiration, resulting in a skewed picture of how people actually... Read more

There are many ways to say “I don’t know.” She was a diminutive woman, perhaps five feet tall. When she took the seat across from me in the... Read more

20 years ago, Jay Haley's classic Leaving Home offered a clinical blueprint for successfully launching young adults toward self-sufficiency. In today's brave... Read more