This Didn't Go as Planned: Practical Approaches to Validate and Process Reproductive Grief
Pregnancy loss, reproductive challenges such as infertility, birth trauma or the experience of a perinatal mental health disorder leave millions of people each... Read more
The Unseen Losses of Sexual Violence: TF-CBT and Grief Work to Restore Clients Sense of Hope, Self-Acceptance and More
Survivors of sexual assault have lost so much. Their sense of safety, trust and control have been robbed from them. Their very sense of identity taken as they... Read more
Ambiguous Loss in Narcissistic Relationships: Clinical Skills to Process the Unresolved Grief of Estrangement
Grief and loss hit clients recovering from narcissistic abuse on multiple levels. From grieving a childhood of abuse and neglect to mourning the loss of the... Read more
Deb Dana’s Putting Polyvagal Theory into Practice: Nervous System-Based Exercises for Anxiety, Depression, Trauma and More!
At the heart of our client’s symptoms – from anxiety and depression to traumatic stress and more – is a dysregulated nervous... Read more
Non-Death Losses: How the Grief We Don’t Call Grief Applies to Every Client
Most people think grief only relates to death. As such, so many discount and judge their loss experiences as “no big deal.” But now more than ever... Read more
Practice Tools: May/June 2023
The best from across the field of psychotherapy . . . on us!Practice Tools for the May/June 2023 issue are courtesy of Arielle Schwartz's book, "Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery." Read more
Clinical Tools for Self-Injury Among LGBTQ+ People
Join Clinical Psychologist and author of The Queer Mental Health Workbook, Dr. Brendan Dunlop, to learn the unique stressors and causes of self-injury among... Read more
The Art and Science of EMDR
The EMDR model is linear – real EMDR is not. Therapists who are trained in EMDR can facilitate healing in the most profound ways. But successful... Read more
When Treatment Becomes Trauma: Medical Trauma Skills for Mental Health Professionals
The list of medical experiences that have the potential to be terrifying, disorienting, and life-altering goes on and on... As a mental health... Read more
The DBT Flip Chart
Therapist Approved! Psychoeducational flip charts are a unique and reusable in-session therapy tool that bring clinical concepts to life. Buy it once... Read more
The Internal Family Systems (IFS) Flip Chart
Therapist Approved! Psychoeducational flip charts are a unique and reusable in-session therapy tool that bring clinical concepts to life. Buy it once... Read more
The Big Feelings Flip Chart
Therapist Approved! Psychoeducational flip charts are a unique and reusable in-session therapy tool that bring clinical concepts to life. Buy it once... Read more
Somatic Therapy to Tame the Survival Response and Heal Implicit Trauma Memories
This course is intended to teach therapists somatic therapy techniques for working with the survival response through in-session demonstrations.
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Foundations of Somatic Therapy for Trauma: The 9 Key Techniques for Effective Body-Based Therapy
Every trauma healer needs to know how to work with pain trapped within the body. But, there are so many ways to do somatic therapy… many therapists... Read more
Breaking the Cycle of Unhealthy Family Relationships: Top Tools for Better Boundaries
For our adult clients with difficult parents, there’s a constant struggle between maintaining connection and protecting themselves from getting... Read more
Deb Dana’s Polyvagal Theory in Action Training: Creating Safety & Connection with Trauma Clients
Trauma clients are often stuck in a dysregulated state—and in the words of author and international trainer Deb Dana, LCSW—they “long to come... Read more
Deb Dana’s Polyvagal Theory in Action Training: Creating Safety & Connection with Trauma Clients
Trauma clients are often stuck in a dysregulated state—and in the words of author and international trainer Deb Dana, LCSW—they “long to come... Read more
Doing Imago Relationship Therapy in the Space Between: A New Way of Seeing Couples
Do you avoid seeing couples? Have you started dreading your next appointment with a couple? Or love working with couples and are interested in new tools... Read more
Last Chance Couples Therapy: Helping Couples On the Eve of Destruction
A badly broken marriage—in which both spouses show high levels of anger and disdain, and low levels of patience, good will, or hope—doesn't... Read more
The Enneagram in Action: An Experiential Approach for Therapists
Regardless of our clinical orientation, much of what we do starts with offering clients new, creative ways of connecting with their authentic selves. The... Read more
The Ethics of Bringing Yourself to Your Work: The Ethics of Self-Disclosure and Countertransference
Do you sometimes feel you must hide yourself in order to help your clients? What if there were a way to be your authentic self while still serving your... Read more
Grieving the Lost Childhood: A Somatic Approach to Healing Past Wounds
How we deal with loss is complicated by a society that recognizes only certain types of losses. The loss of a safe and loving childhood may not be an obvious... Read more
The Teen Mental Health Crisis: How to Make an Impact for Young People
American teens today are struggling like no other time in history. Since the early 2000s, there’s been a consistent rise in suicide rates and suicidal... Read more
The Most Dangerous Myths in Trauma Treatment
As the codeveloper of Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Kate Chard is altering the field of trauma treatment and what we know about how people recover from... Read more
Brain-Body Therapy for Kids: The Brain-Body Approach
When the children you work with don’t show progress despite your best efforts, it’s time for a course correction that considers what our field too... Read more