Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) Clients: Clinical Issues and Treatment Strategies
Are you making the biggest mistake treating your LGBTQ clients? Are you pushing them to “come out”? And if you are…you could be traumatizing... Read more
Treating Trauma in Neurodiverse Clients: Affirming and Culturally Inclusive Healing for Clients with Autism, ADHD, & More
Healing from trauma is a challenging journey, and when neurodiversity is involved, the path can become even more complex. Many clinicians feel underprepared... Read more
The Orgasm Gap
7 Strategies to Help Women Experience Sexual PleasureMany women struggle with orgasm in heterosexual relationships. Here are seven strategies therapists can use to empower female clients to experience more... Read more
Ethical Competence for Clinicians: Best Practices and Guiding Principles for Effective Treatment
Mental health professionals are responsible for managing heavy caseloads, maintaining clinical documentation, and so much more all while trying to consistently... Read more
EMDR for Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse and Neglect: Advanced Treatment Techniques for Insecure Attachment and Complex Trauma
Plagued with trauma, low self-esteem, relationship problems, and difficulty regulating their emotions, adult clients who’ve experienced childhood... Read more
Quieting the Storm Within
When conflict in your inner world becomes too stormy, you need a way to find the sun behind the clouds. Quieting the Storm Within, written by Internal... Read more
Trauma-Sensitive Movement: Somatic Techniques to Support the Nervous System
Help clients access what is held in their bodies so they can move with and beyond their trauma stories. Movement is a fundamental, innate expression of... Read more
Rethinking Attachment
Building on the conference's rich exploration of attachment theory, this advanced workshop introduces a groundbreaking clinical framework that transforms... Read more
Healing Attachment with Psychodrama
Pesso-Boyden System Psychomotor (PBSP) is a transformative modality that leads participants through a small-group experience that allows them to reconstruct... Read more
Rest as Freedom Dreaming
Tricia will share an immersive daydreaming activation while exploring the power of designing rest as a practice of love, liberation and community care... Read more
Gender-Affirming Mental Health Care
If you’re confused about how to best work with trans and nonbinary clients these days, you’re not alone. In the U.S., more than one percent of... Read more
Understanding and Treating Codependency
We frequently see clients who lose themselves in others. Often, their sense of self seems to depend on people, situations, and outcomes they’re unable to... Read more
A Neurologically-Informed Treatment of OCD
What are we trying to accomplish when treating OCD? Reducing anxiety? Preventing compulsions? Putting a person in control of their life? These intentions can... Read more
The Liberative Nature of Mindfulness: Coming to Terms with Things as They Are
Having developed Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), an approach that changed many western medical practices, Jon Kabat-Zinn has been dubbed the... Read more
Going Deeper with Clients
In AEDP, a healing-oriented therapy that holds undoing aloneness as a sine qua non of trauma work, affirmation is not a mere nicety but a robust experiential... Read more
Introduction to Attachment-Focused EMDR
Sometimes EMDR alone isn’t enough to heal entrenched traumas, particularly when clients struggle with early attachment issues. Attachment-Focused Eye... Read more
Integrating Psychedelics Into Your Practice
Imagine a therapy session where your client brings up an interest in using psychedelics as part of their healing journey; after all, the options are getting... Read more
Grief on the Job
Working with people in pain has never been easy, but recently, it’s become even more difficult. Between our country’s multiple mental health... Read more
Inviting Awareness to Become Your Default Mode
Come experience mindfulness with one of the world’s leading practitioners and learn how to truly implement these practices in your life to improve your... Read more
Helping Clients Rewrite Disempowering Stories
The stories people tell themselves—and their therapists—are powerful. They can keep clients stuck, but they can also galvanize change. Although our... Read more
A New Model of Personality: Nine Pathways to Reunite & Reignite
Are we born with a certain temperament? Can it be changed? How does personality shape our lives? Recent research has revealed an exciting new view of the ways... Read more
Opportunities in Cross-State Practice
Seeing clients in multiple states and across state lines, either physically or via telehealth, is becoming more common and has the potential to dramatically... Read more
Rethinking and Supporting Autism in Adults
Many adult clients entering therapy don’t know they’re autistic, and often neither do their therapists. After all, they may have become experts at... Read more
Demystifying Narcissism
How to treat people with narcissism, and even whether you can make meaningful progress, is one of the hottest and most misunderstood topics in the field today... Read more
The Missing Piece of Attachment Theory
Born in Vietnam, forcibly displaced as a child to Australia, and now living in rural Alaska, Linda Thai has dedicated her life to unraveling the mysteries of... Read more
Phones, Teens, & Plunging Mental Health
Today’s adolescents and teens barely drink or smoke, get into fewer fights, and have less sex. By many measures, they’re healthier and safer than... Read more
Effective Tools for Working with Serious Mental Illness
It’s unfortunate, but severely mentally ill clients are the ones we frequently feel least able to help. Instead, they often find themselves marginalized... Read more
Overcoming the Most Common Barriers in Trauma Treatment
As children, many of our adult clients experienced abuses they were helpless to escape or prevent. Perhaps it wasn’t safe for them to cry, look... Read more