“She Looks Just Like You”
What Are We Not Seeing with Donor-Assisted IVF?Understanding the impact of “resemblance talk” and the challenge of “parental claiming” can help the parents of donor-conceived children feel... Read more
Editor's Note: July/August 2024
Tackling Today's Parenting ConundrumsMy funny, creative, and very sweet three-year-old has been writhing on the floor in agony for almost 10 minutes. With his eyes scrunched shut, he’s... Read more
Mindful Self-Compassion for Teens in Schools
Students can’t learn when they’re consumed by stressful emotions. Teachers see it every day: unprecedented levels of stress, anxiety... Read more
The Professional Burnout Course: Tools and Techniques for Improving the Mental Health of High-Functioning Professionals
From mental breakdowns to the terrifying increase in suicide risk – the dangers of burnout, especially in high-functioning professions, are real and... Read more
Premarital Counseling Specialist Program: A Complete, Step-by-Step Guide to Helping Couples Build Lasting Relationships
Have you considered adding premarital counselling to your practice but aren’t sure where to start? Or maybe you have provided some therapy to engaged... Read more
Trauma-Informed Supervision: Evidence-based Strategies for Developing Ethical and Competent Supervisees
Given the prevalence of trauma, no doubt your supervisees’ caseloads are filled with clients who have experienced deeply distressing... Read more
Providing Culturally Competent and Neurodiversity-Affirming Care
In this session, neurodivergent therapist, psychologist, and trainer, Dr. Tasha Oswald will teach you crucial insight that care providers need to know to help... Read more
Evidence-Based Approaches for Co-Occurring Mental Health Concerns
In this session, neurodivergent therapist, psychologist, and trainer, Dr. Tasha Oswald will teach you crucial insight that care providers need to know to help... Read more
The Clinician’s Codependency Treatment Workbook
Do you see clients who overfunction for others while underfunctioning for themselves? Maybe your client is a chronic people-pleaser who can’t seem to... Read more
Therapy with Autistic Clients: Empowering Teens and Adults through ACT, CFT, DBT, and Self-Compassion
The correlation between autism and anxiety, phobias, suicidality, depression, and other mental health disorders is well-established. But the complexities... Read more
Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD: Innovations in Implementation
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT: Resick, Monson, & Chard, 2017) is one of the front-line recommended therapies for PTSD recommended in multiple treatment... Read more
What You Need to Know About Sleep and Trauma: Tools for Better Outcomes and Lasting Insomnia Relief
From the initial development of PTSD to its treatment, sleep disturbance plays a huge role in how clients recover from trauma. And while most therapists... Read more
Applying Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy in the Treatment of Addictions
Therapists frequently encounter clients grappling with various forms of addiction, whether rooted in substances, food, gambling, or sex. However, the treatment... Read more
Key Tasks of Trauma Recovery: The Use of Attachment Science in Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) to Foster Mastery, Cohesion, and Resilience
Difficulty with painful emotions is at the heart of posttraumatic problems, and without attending to your clients’ intense feelings of fear, disgust... Read more
When Past Wounds Show Up in Present Relationship: The Latest Strategies to Foster Resilience in Couples With Childhood Relational Trauma
Due of the prevalence of interpersonal trauma, couple therapists will be called upon to intervene with survivors. Whether it’s physical, psychological... Read more
Grief Counseling and Treatment Certification Training: Assessments and Interventions to Support Healthy Grieving and Adaptation to Death and Loss
It has always been your calling to help the suffering. And today a growing wave of grieving clients is looking to professionals like you for assistance as... Read more
Grief & Trauma in the Bones: Mindfulness & Indigenous ways of healing
Experience Dr. Marianela Medrano, Ph.D., LPC, CPT, a writer and mindfulness teacher, as she walks you through innovative interventions that you can use to help... Read more
Bringing Hope and Healing to Gaza
A Psychologist's ViewJames Gordon shares about a clinician's powerful mental health work on the frontlines of the war in Gaza. Read more
Forgiveness: The Double-Edged Sword of Trauma Therapy
Forgiveness has become a topic of interest in mental health writing, particularly in trauma therapy. But in practice, when people have suffered from... Read more
First Nations Approaches to Healing Trauma: Ancestral Wisdom and Soul Retrieval
Colonization has conditioned us all to a dichotomous way of seeing the world. First Nations values and principles, ceremony, protocol and process are a... Read more