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What is EMDR Therapy and How Does It Work?
EMDR is a treatment for PTSD, focusing on using bilateral stimulation (BLS) to help the brain access and process traumatic memories. Learn more.
Written Exposure Therapy for PTSD
Discover a protocol to quickly reduce trauma symptomology
Written Exposure Therapy (WET) is an evidence-based brief PTSD treatment approach that produces significant results in as few as five treatment sessions. Learn the first steps of this revolutionary treatment protocol.
Providing Constructive Feedback in Clinical Supervision
6 Simple Strategies for Success
Providing specific and actionable critiques without damaging rapport can be one of the most challenging aspects of clinical supervision, but constructive feedback offers a means to provide valuable insight and strengthen working relationships.
Finding Healthy Attachment
Discover how attachment-based relationships provide a foundation for healing trauma
Christina Reese has dedicated her life’s work to helping those with trauma live healthier, happier, and more fulfilling lives. Learn how her newest book, Trauma and Attachment, can guide clients from a place of fear to healthy attachment.
Turning “What’s Wrong” into “What’s Strong”
Shifting to a Strengths-Based Perspective with Motivational Interviewing
The practice of motivational interviewing (MI) involves a change in our perspective. We can reframe what we perceive to be a person’s “failures” or shortcomings into evidence of their strengths, skills, character, and worth. This shift from a deficits-based perspective to one of strengths is at the heart of MI.
Intro to Diversity in Clinical Practice
A Shame-Free Guide to Reducing Cultural Offenses
Join Lambers Fisher for a discussion of his debut book, Diversity in Clinical Practice, and an exploration of six reasons for every helping professional to increase their cultural competence.
Picking Apart Pain
An exclusive first look at Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: The Workbook
Get a preview of Lori Gottlieb's new workbook with a free exercise that shows how a shift in perspective can reduce unpleasant emotions.
Teaching Kids About Healthy Friendships & Boundaries
Free Worksheets to Begin the Conversation
In celebration of her debut book, The Not-So-Friendly Friend, Christina Furnival shares worksheets that can be used to help children understand, set, and uphold healthy boundaries.
5 Steps to Setting Healthy Boundaries
Strategies to Help Clients Break Free from Gaslighting & Narcissistic Abuse
Amy Marlow-MaCoy, LPC, discusses the steps clinicians can take with their clients to develop and maintain healthy boundaries in order to better protect themselves from gaslighting and narcissistic abuse.
Fostering Mental Health in Student Athletes
Strategies for Increasing Self-Esteem & Setting Healthy Boundaries
Historic moments in professional sports and an increased spotlight on the mental health of athletes prompt Clair Mellenthin, LCSW, RPT-S, to answer an essential question: how do we frame this moment as a positive learning experience for our youth?