Sand Therapy: A Powerful Tool to Create Safety and Healing for Trauma, Anxiety & More
Sand therapy is a powerful neurobiological approach to treating children, teens and families with trauma, anxiety, and attachment issues. In this 90-minute... Read more
Superheroes and Video Games: Creating Epic Adventures in Child & Adolescent Therapy
Video games can transport us to worlds beyond our imagination. A board game can send us on an epic adventure and fulfilling side quests, while the origin... Read more
Creating Diversity in the Practice of Play Therapy: More Than Color, More Than Gender
Conventional thinking around culture and diversity often focuses on aspects like skin color and sexual identity, excluding aspects of formed social, cultural... Read more
Applying Polyvagal Theory to Your Play Therapy Practice for Safety, Connection & Healing
The brain-body connection inherent in trauma is often challenging for us as adults…and applying this knowledge can be overwhelming, especially in a... Read more
Schema Therapy Strategies: Treat Hypersexual Narcissism, Trauma, Gaslighting, Shame & Attachment Wounds
It can be uncomfortable for you… but it’s essential for therapy… When working your narcissistic clients you likely encounter shame... Read more
Pathways to Attachment Security in Play Therapy
Secure attachment in early life is the gold standard for buffering a person against adversity throughout life. One of the appealing qualities of play... Read more
EMDR & Play Therapy: A Multimodal Approach for Children
EMDR therapy is a powerful evidence-based approach for children. However, the use of EMDR therapy procedural steps require that we make them developmentally... Read more
Creative Interventions for Engaging Resistant Children in Play Therapy: "I Don't Want to Talk About it"
The challenge of working with children can be further compounded by their fear of entering therapy, their lack of control over the decision to attend therapy... Read more
ADHD in the Family: Interventions for Parents at Home & in the Classroom
Parenting becomes that much harder for your clients who have ADHD. And, when these parents have children diagnosed with ADHD or a partner with ADHD&hellip... Read more
The Tapping Toolbox
Sometimes the key to feeling better is knowing where to tap. Rooted within energy psychology, tapping is a mind-body technique used to treat a range of... Read more
Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery
Trauma recovery is as much about healing the body as it is the mind. Yet, so often, the focus of healing involves retelling the story of the past without... Read more
ADHD at Work: Strategies to Help Clients Survive & Thrive in Their Careers
Your clients show up late to session, seem to forget skills taught the week before and struggle to stay on track with treatment goals. Unfortunately, these... Read more
Two-Spirit Clients: Clinical Interventions for Culturally Competent Care
Gender- and sexual orientation-based violence at the hands of colonizers has been a lived experience for the Indigenous people of the North American continent... Read more
The CBT Toolbox for Young Adults
As young adults strive to create their own identities, they need to learn how to express themselves in meaningful ways, form relationships, adjust to changing... Read more
May/June 2022: Rediscovering Play: Are You and Your Clients Having Fun?
This issue looks at the field play therapy, including play therapy’s benefits and potential pitfalls. One article examines how incorporating play and humor... Read more
Seizing the Moment: Re-Humanizing Grief Care for Our Clients and Ourselves
I thought I knew quite a bit about grief. Then on a beautiful, ordinary summer day in 2009, I watched my partner drown. If anyone could be prepared to deal... Read more
Survivors Guilt, Regret and Shame: Interventions for Today’s Grieving Clients
Guilt, regret, and shame are common emotions to experience after a loss or traumatic event. But the pandemic has added unique and complicated elements to... Read more
Expressive Arts for Children and Adults: Giving Grief a Voice
Many people are left speechless when death and loss tears their world apart. And when you have clients grieving so intensely that words won’t come, being... Read more
Ethics and Personal Loss: Using Self-Disclosure in Grief Support
So many professionals drawn to grief work have experienced their own personal losses. And a growing body of research shows us that self-disclosure can be a... Read more
VIDEO: A Special Invitation
Pat Ogden’s Complex Trauma Master ClassWatch this special invitation to her Networker Master Class, and discover how Sensorimotor Psychotherapy can be woven into interventions you’re already... Read more
Creating Safe Spaces for Culturally Diverse Clients to Grieve
Culturally unique ways of mourning have often been overlooked or unacknowledged, abruptly derailing the grieving process for many. Without empowering clients... Read more
Clinical Strategies for Collective Grief and Pandemic Fatigue
The scale of loss your clients have been subjected to is unlike anything in a generation. Grief is now collectively woven into our... Read more
Narrative Therapy Techniques for Navigating Grief and Uncertainty
The pandemic has served as a reminder that we never know what’s around the bend. I was fourteen when both of my parents got cancer at the same time. My... Read more
The 6th Stage of Grief: Why Meaning Making is More Important Than Ever
“There is no meaning in dying in a pandemic.” I’ve heard this from so many people over the last two years. And they’re right. And the... Read more
From Loss to Resilience with Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT)
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) is one of the fastest growing therapeutic approaches available to clinicians today. Its attachment-based... Read more
