Irene Yancher, PsyD, a San Francisco-based clinical psychologist talks about how Lyra Health limits Access to high-quality treatments for their own benefit by raising money to connect employees of companies, such as Facebook, to mental health treatment. We cannot allow the financial interests of one startup to denigrate high-quality treatments and to limit patients to brief therapies that may not work for them.

In response to a New York Times article on bringing “retail therapy” to the masses, PsiAN’s co-chairs wrote a letter arguing that drugstore therapy is the wrong approach.

Keith R Wilson, a counselor in private practice in Rochester, NY, talks about how farming has changed into big business much like mental health. They say industrial medicine gives the public more access to better care, but he discussed how it reduces patients to quantifiable symptoms and healthcare workers into unthinking and unfeeling machinery.

In a letter to Nick Kosky, Chair of the NICE Chronic Pain Guideline Committee, PsiAN offered feedback and revisions to the organization’s Guidance Recommendations for pain management, based on a wealth of evidence about the diagnosis and treatment of Chronic Primary Pain.

Irene Yancher, PsyD, a clinical psychologist from San Francisco, talks about how therapist and patient find themselves in a similar situation during the pandemic.

PsiAN joined the Kennedy Forum Illinois, Inseparable, and other organizations to support the Health is Health Illinois campaign, which is focused on ensuring mental health parity and writing the standards of care.

Keith R Wilson, a counselor in private practice in Rochester, NY, talks about why people ask their therapists why, when they could be asking how, and if insurance companies, researchers, and employers of therapists could be more accepting of why, then clients would get the kind of care they want and need.

Dayna Sharp, a psychotherapist and licensed clinical social worker, talks about her own experience with therapy, how she benefited, and how she learned critically important lessons about therapy.

Rehana Naik Olson, from Carleton College, talks about her feelings and observations during a three-week externship at PsiAN, and what she learned about evidence-based therapy.

Ellen Chazdon, PsyD, a clinical psychologist in private practice in Minneapolis, talks about the similarity between the journal and Freud’s “fundamental rule,” where he emphasized the centrality in therapy of saying whatever is on one’s mind without editing—where things feel alive and true.

Sydney Langor, LCPC, a New York City psychoanalyst talks about how the pandemic affected a client with a Social Anxiety Disorder.

PsiAN was recently featured in The Atlantic, in an article about “therapy” Apps.

Dr. Reidbord is a San Francisco psychiatrist, talks about how PsiAn started their blog with The Forum.

PsiAN was recently featured in The New York Times, in an article about Talkspace.

Our Co-Chair, Linda Michaels, wrote an article, Therapy That Sticks, on therapies that endure. She outlines the evidence base for therapies of depth, insight and relationship, and highlights the false narrative around quick fixes.

Tele-Therapy Session Guidelines, outlining ways we can stay aware of the differences of in-person therapy, and adapt to tele-therapy.

PsiAN drafted a petition protesting the “weaponization” of therapy against the ORR and ICE and their agreement to share therapy notes for therapy sessions with immigrant children. This policy not only formalized these children’s betrayals but goes toward destroying the integrity of psychological therapy as a whole.

In its mental health blog on, “How to Choose the Right Type of Therapy,” WebMD outlines 4 types of therapy that are variations on a theme, and fail to mention that therapies of depth, insight and relationship even exist.

The APA failed to mention therapies of depth, insight and relationship—even though these therapies can cure chronic pain. Why should people settle for symptom management, when they can have a cure?

We stand with the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU). On strike for more mental health professionals in the schools.