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
Beyond “Poor Baby!” and “What a Jerk!” Therapy: Balancing Support and Accountability for Clients with Relationship Complaints
When clients tell us stories about people who cause them pain it can be easy to take their side and see things their way. If we aren’t careful, we end up... Read more
To Forgive or Not to Forgive? Releasing the Pain of Relational Trauma
Forgiveness is often a triggering and complicated issue, particularly as it relates to relational trauma or complex PTSD. Some clients don’t want to... Read more
The Powerful World of Therapy with Adults 65 and Older: Challenging Our Myths about Aging
By 2034, there will be more people 65 and older than children under the age of 18. Yet, most older adults—due to stigma, ageism, access and a lack of... Read more
Healing the Fragmented Selves: How to Apply Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment
Childhood developmental trauma leaves people with a legacy of overwhelming emotions and a fragmented sense of self. Unaware that their intense reactions... Read more
Relational EMDR as a Transformational Journey: The Power of Attunement
While EMDR is best known for the treatment of PTSD, it’s evolved into a comprehensive psychotherapy that addresses a broad range of daily life... Read more
Helping Clients Manage Unhealthy Family Relationships: A Drama-Free Approach
When is a client’s family member too toxic to keep? When is it worth it to heal a longstanding family rift? For many of our clients, their families are a... Read more
Solution Focused Brief Therapy for Trauma: Connecting Clients with Hope
While many therapists tend to focus on problems, solution-focused brief therapists are trained in the deceptively simple art of asking targeted questions that... Read more
Helping Couples Expand Their Sexual Love Language: From Intercourse to Outercourse
Many people define intercourse as penetration, disregarding all other aspects of sexual connection such as foreplay or afterplay. The pressure for penetrative... Read more
The Craft of Treating Trauma: Applying Core Skills
How do we navigate the emotional landscape with a client when their present is more about the painful past or dreaded future? In this workshop, you will learn... Read more
Fostering Hope in Suicidal Clients: Evidence-Based Techniques Beyond Safety and Survival
When your client expresses a desire to die, it’s not enough to assess suicide risk and make a safety plan. You also need to help the person want to live... Read more
New Parents, Their Babies, and Scary Thoughts: Effective Interventions for Pregnancy and Postpartum Anxiety
I imagined throwing my baby across the room. I think my baby will die. What if I push my baby under the bath water? If a postpartum client disclosed these... Read more
Managing the Fallout of Narcissistic Abuse: Addressing the Impact of High-Conflict Personality Styles
It’s essential that clinicians understand not just the phenomenon of narcissistic abuse (or antagonistic relational abuse), but the fallout from it (the... Read more
Broken Trust: Treating Betrayal Trauma in Couples
Beyond affairs, violations in intimate relationships are often the result of more common and seemingly small and innocuous betrayals. And when one or both... Read more
Therapy in the Media: How Therapists are Blazing a New Trail
Some of today’s most popular TV shows, books, TED Talks, and podcasts not only feature therapists, but also real-life therapy clients willing to share... Read more
Navigating Breakups and New Beginnings: How to Apply Relational Self-Awareness
The data is clear: most of us will author more than one love story in our lifetime. We talk a lot about the skills and paradigms needed to create an intimate... Read more
Fair Play: Rethinking the Domestic Workload with Couples
We know from recent research that many women do two-thirds of what it takes to run a home and a family, regardless of whether they work outside the home or... Read more
An Integrative Approach to Help AAPI Clients: Strategies for Culturally Relevant Conversations
There are several unique historical and cultural considerations that impact clinical work with Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) clients, particularly... Read more
Enhancing Affect Regulation in Trauma Survivors: Creative Strategies that Give Your Clients Agency
Although there’s a clear connection between insecure attachment in childhood and a client’s inability to navigate emotional states and self-soothe... Read more