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'The Millennial Therapist' on Beginning a Journey to Find YourselfSara Kuburic, the Millennial Therapist, explains the effects of self-loss and why it's important to find yourself again. Read more
Enhancing Meditation with Neurofeedback
Innovations in Training the BrainHow can neurofeedback help people tailor their meditation practice to help with their mental health concerns? Read more
Dr. Mithoefer chats about MDMA and psychedelic therapy, their accessibility challenges, as well as what you can expect from his new online course with... Read more
Tapering Off Meds
A Holistic ApproachFor people who want to taper off psychotropic drugs, nutritional therapies and integrative methods may provide a promising alternative. Read more
A Therapist Takes Ketamine
A Firsthand Account of a New Kind of Healing JourneyAfter this experience, I knew I needed to share what I’d learned with my clients, and soon afterward decided to get training to become a ketamine-assisted... Read more
When ADHD Does the Parenting
Putting Adults Back in the Driver’s SeatParenting with untreated adult ADHD poses inherent difficulties for the entire family. Read more
Quieting the Relentless Inner Critic
Memory Reconsolidation in ActionPulling back the curtain on the mysterious and often misunderstood reconsolidation process can bring greater precision and depth to our interventions. Read more
Therapist SOS (Strategies of Self-Care)
Demanding Days and Decompressing Head to ToeStaying fine-tuned to self-care through ongoing self-awareness and regular, mindful personal-battery recharging is imperative for clinicians. 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
Love Is An Action Verb
The Body Work of MotheringBefore we learn verbal language, we communicate through our bodies, making mothering a physical act of love. Read more
Embracing Gender-Pleasure
How to Feel Yummy in Our BodiesFor trans folks, attuning to gender-pleasure allows them to resist harmful cultural scripts—but it can be a radical act of resistance for cis folks too. Read more
Daring to Dance
How Can We Help Women Take Pleasure?Pleasure-taking connects women to their bodies, roots them in the present, and fosters resilience. What could be blocking today's women from such a seemingly... Read more
From her book 'Body Aware' author Erica Hornthal shares mindful exercises that will help with self-regulation of your emotional thermostat. Read more
Therapy for People Living with Dementia
Creating Possibilities for Clients and Their FamiliesWith an estimated 6.2 million Americans in need of mental health support tailored to the challenges of dementia, why are so few therapists working with them? Read more
Networker sits down with Rick Hanson to discuss how to better apply the principles of neuroscience. Read more
The Mental Health Gym
An Interview with Emily AnhaltMindfulness apps, thought trackers, CBT courses, and the Uberization of therapy has flooded headlines. But what about psychodynamic or relational approaches... Read more
The Myth of the Individual
Tapping into the Relational BrainCurrent research indicates that we’re not walled-in, freestanding individuals. Our human brains—in fact, most mammals’ brains—are built for... Read more
A Vehicle of Awakening
Can Psychotherapy Be a Spiritual Practice?In The Zen of Therapy, psychiatrist Mark Epstein explores what a Buddhist therapy has offered his clients. Read more
Getting Past You and Me
Cultivating the “Us” in Intimate RelationshipTerry Real is on a mission: leading couples into increased intimacy by moving them beyond a culture of individualism. Read more
Agitated Kids, Dangerous Punishment
Rethinking the Policy of Seclusion and RestraintSeclusion 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
Treating Trauma From the Top Down
A Cognitive Path to HealingWhen it comes to designating best practices for treating trauma, where does the research stand? And where is the field going? Read more
Burnout and the Body
Emily Nagoski on Naming the Real EnemySelf-care has long been touted as a panacea for burnout. Emily Nagoski has a different solution. Read more
Is Meditation as Safe as We Think?
The Risks We Don’t Talk AboutMeditation 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 TraumaIt's time to untangle weight gain and binge eating from trauma. Read more
Beyond the Brain-Body Split
A Relational Neuroscience PerspectiveThinking about behavior only in terms of reinforcement and consequence is outdated. It’s not mind over matter. It’s both. Are new therapists getting that... Read more
The Plasticity of Personality
Can We Switch Our Stripes?A new book explores the science of personality change. Read more
Helper Syndrome
When Are We Enough?Is the problem of compassion fatigue that we get tired of being compassionate toward others—or that we aren’t being compassionate toward ourselves? Read more
Strengthening Personal Boundaries
The Bioenergetic ApproachAsserting boundaries sometimes means confronting painful loss, but in these cases, helping them reinforce their boundaries has led to greater satisfaction. Read more
Becoming a Yoga Therapist
Joanne Spence on Trauma-Informed PracticesJoanne Spence, a social worker turned yoga therapist and author of "Trauma-Informed Yoga: A Toolbox for Therapists," talked to Psychotherapy Networker about... Read more
The Magic Dial
Reframing Cognitive DistortionsBeyond identifying the distortions in negative cognitions, how can we help clients understand that negative thoughts and feelings aren’t the result of... Read more