Calm Your Mind

When your clients are agitated or distracted, use this simple CALM whole-body method to help them regulate their mind and body, so they can focus on the work necessary for healing.

The Importance of Mental Stretching

Warm-ups can be considered “mental stretching.” They are usually five to ten minutes in length and help clients become familiar with drawing, self-expression and communicating with others

Suicide Risk Assessment: A must for clients reporting TBI and Depression

Former Detroit Lions quarterback, Erik Kramer, attempted suicide by way of gunshot wound to the head. PESI speaker Meagan Houston, Ph.D., SAP, discusses how traumatic brain injury and major depressive disorder are connected and the importance of conducting a suicide risk assessment with a patient who reports a mild or…

LGBTQ Youth: A FREE tool to promote well-being

Every one of us, and especially those of us who are youth-serving professionals, have two urgent tasks: we must reassure our youth of their value, dignity and future, and we must identify and protect young people who are at risk.

That's why we've created this powerful…

My Ouch Story

Everyone has a story to tell. When bad things happen, it makes it much harder to tell the story. When bad things happen to us, there is typically a lot of shame, guilt, and embarrassment.

How to Develop a Safety Plan with Suicidal Clients

Effective suicide assessments are built on a foundation of empathic connection. When clients feel heard, understood, and respected, they’re likelier to let down their guard and explore sensitive topics.

The Many Dimensions of Gender Identity

Sexual orientation is so much more than being gay, straight or bisexual. We now know gender identity is a spectrum beyond the binary of male and female, therefore, sexuality takes on many dimensions too.

All Parts are Welcome

Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) provides a revolutionary treatment plan for PTSD, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, eating disorders and more. Using a non-pathologizing, accelerated approach — rooted in neuroscience — IFS applies inner resources and self-compassion for healing emotional wounding at its core.…

Race to Right Here Right Now

Practice mindfulness — download three favorite (and FREE) mindfulness techniques developed especially for teens.

How Couples Stay in Love For a Lifetime

You’ll gain powerful knowledge and strategies you can use to guide your couples in building great relationships that are filled with life-long committed love and affection — plus you’ll earn 1 Free CE hour!

Meeting Teen Clients Where They Are

Most of us were never trained to talk to adolescents, and they often find most standard; shrink-wrapped attempts to "engage" them infuriating. Here's what they respond to best.

5 Things Seasoned Therapists Wish They'd Known

We asked some seasoned therapists to pass on the lessons they wish someone had told them when they were first starting out, and here are the results!

The Insomnia Epidemic

Chronic sleep problems affect up to 80% of the clients in your practice, and sleep disorders are particularly common in clients with trauma, anxiety, depression, and chronic pain. That's why we created this FREE high-quality visual

Calm & Alert

Calm and Alert is an innovative approach to teaching self-regulation and social skills to children by utilizing their bodies, minds, and breath through yoga and mindfulness practices. Get started with three basic practices available for FREE here.

Use Your Pause Button: Stop, Drop, and Breathe

If you want to experience a happier family life, with a lot less drama and a lot more love, then check out this FREE Exercise and Worksheet.

Free Yourself from Feeling Boxed in By Anger

The following, easy to visualize, empowering metaphor can quickly help clients free themselves from feeling trapped in by anger.

Beyond Lip Service: Confronting Our Prejudices Against Higher-Weight Clients

Therapists should not only be aware of their potential prejudices toward higher-weight clients, but should commit themselves to challenge those attitudes as well.

Shaping the Conversations of Love: 2 Simple Techniques for Working with Distressed Couples

In this free, short video, Dr. Sue Johnson will show you two simple EFT techniques to help partners have conversations that redefine a distressed relationship and ensure you're shaping a more secure bond.

Self-Regulation and Mindfulness

Looking for an easy way to teach young clients about self-regulation and mindfulness? Try this simple, short story from my new book, “Self-Regulation and Mindfulness: Over 82 Exercises & Worksheets for Sensory Processing Disorder, ADHD, & Autism Spectrum Disorder.”

CBT Tools for Resolving Anxiety in Children & Adolescents

Worksheets can be engaging, interactive and useful tools for clinicians — especially when working with kids. Read more to get two FREE CBT tools for exploring anxiety with the kids in your practice.