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Blogs and Free Resources
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and resources to assist with the great work you do. Find expert tips, helpful worksheets, demonstration videos, CE, news,
and more here. Happy learning!
Stop Hesitating
A quick, highly directive guide to initiating conversations with your Black clients about George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, other lives lost, Minnesota, Louisville, and racial trauma
Are you a white therapist who’s not sure how to start the conversation about racial trauma with your Black clients? Are you unsure of how to hold space for what they’re feeling? Then check out Elizabeth McCorvey’s one-page guide to opening up dialogue with your clients.
How Can White Therapists Be Better Allies?
Deepening the Conversation around Race-Based Trauma
What does it mean to be an ally to people of color? What steps can therapists take to heal race-based trauma and deepen the conversation around racial injustice in therapy and in the wider community? Several clinicians and leaders in our field share their perspectives.
Janina Fisher on Telehealth Treatment of Addictive Behavior
FREE CE. Develop a toolkit for helping clients with addictive behavior virtually.
Understanding why it feels safer for clients to abuse drugs and alcohol, to act out sexually, or to binge/purge food, is key to enhancing your work with addictions recovery. That's why Janina Fisher is offering you this FREE CE video.
In This Together!
During these challenging times, I hear “everything has changed.” But is that really true? (Activity and free worksheet)
While it may feel like our new normal is nothing like the old, we need to recognize the silver linings this time has brought forth. This blog, activity and free worksheets helps us realize the importance of reaching out to others and celebrates our feelings of accomplishment when we are able to help someone else.
3 Misconceptions About Body Positivity
Help clients let go of body shame, feel more at home in their own bodies, and transform diet culture.
Judith Matz, LCSW shares 3 common misconceptions about body positivity to consider as you work with clients to move from body shame to body positivity.
Taking Care of You!
Helping Yourself and Your Clients Practice Self-Care (ideas and free worksheet)
If you’ve been helping clients adapt to their new schedules and integrate healthy ways to manage daily stress, you know how important it is for all of us to make time to support our own mental health. Self-care is a majority priority right now so that we can make our feelings, and responses to stress more manageable. Here are some ideas and a free worksheet from the Trauma-Informed Social-Emotional Toolbox for Children & Adolescents—but also works for adults!
Working with Teens Without Nagging
Help is here...
Tired of ‘nagging’ without success? Dr. SharonSaline provides tips for disarming pushback and negativity.
10 Rules for Managing ADHD in School
Plus 80 recommendations in an exclusive CE video & Worksheet...
Children and teens with ADHD have serious deficits in their executive functioning and self-regulation which can interfere with pursuing goals or contemplating multiple solutions. In dealing with these deficits, here are 10 specific rules to managing children and teens with ADHD in school.
Simple Ways to Help Depressed Clients Tackle Daunting Tasks
How you can motivate your clients to take the first steps toward a full & active life
For people with depression, daily activities like showering, picking up the house and even going outside, can seem monumental. But accomplishing tasks and being active are crucial for your clients’ wellbeing. Help them get moving again with these simple tips.
How to Talk About Feelings with Kids
Watch the Balloon Metaphor Demonstration
We keep holding onto the feelings and eventually we're going to pop. Instead, let's let it out little by little.