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Addressing Grief-Related Anxiety
Strategies for Normalizing Grief & Fostering Growth
For many grieving clients, working through anxiety will be a significant part of their path towards healing. Discover the first steps you can take to help clients manage their anxiety and process their grief on a deeper level.
Working with Suicide Loss Survivors
4 Strategies for Post-Traumatic Growth
Losing a loved one to suicide leaves survivors with overwhelming feelings of guilt and shame, as well as an intense struggle to make sense of what happened. Licensed counselor Rita Schulte provides strategies that can be used to foster post-traumatic growth when working with clients who have lost a loved one to suicide.
A Strengths-Based Approach to Autism Assessment
FREE Video Demonstration
In this brief video, Rebecca Sachs, PhD, ABPP, and Tamara Rosen, PhD, demonstrate how to bring a strengths-based approach to autism assessment.
Attending to Dissociative Symptoms with Parts Work Therapy: Looking at the Inner Child
Learn how parts work can be used in the treatment of complex PTSD
By helping clients develop an awareness of their inner child, we can work to integrate trauma-related emotions and memories from childhood that have been sent into “exile.”
Learning to Transcend Trauma
Dr. Frank Anderson introduces his newest book
Frank Anderson sits down to talk about the culmination of his career and how it manifested into his newest book, Transcending Trauma: Healing Complex PTSD with Internal Family Systems.
Sustainable Well-Being and Resilience
Free Resource from Self-Compassion for Educators
Lisa Baylis explains how we can embody sustainable well-being in our everyday lives as educators, outlining seven tangible practices that build resiliency.
The Necessity of Self-Compassion for Every Educator
Reflections on the importance of self-compassion & a free exercise
Lisa Baylis, MEd, understands the struggle of trying to be there for your students while also caring for yourself. But self-care isn’t self-indulgent. It’s a necessary aspect of being the best educator you can be.
Self-Compassion in Our Most Difficult Moments
Free Worksheets to Help Educators Practice Mindfulness & Self-Compassion
Self-care is an integral part of our well-being, but is it enough? Lisa Baylis, MEd, shares one of her most vulnerable moments as an educator and provides free worksheets that fellow teachers can use to cultivate self-compassion.
How Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Promotes Post-Traumatic Growth
Discover how adding MDMA to your trauma treatment practice could improve and accelerate outcomes
Researchers are rediscovering the awesome power of psychedelic medicines for improving mental health. Peter H. Addy, PhD, LPC, LMHC, reveals how MDMA-assisted psychotherapy promotes post-traumatic growth in clients with treatment-resistant conditions.
Unwinding Anxiety with Mindfulness Training
Watch a quick demonstration to see how anxiety can be treated in the same way as other habits or addictions
Jud Brewer MD, PhD is a thought leader in the field of habit change and the “science of self-mastery”, having combined over 20 years of experience with mindfulness training with his scientific research therein.