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Help Your Child Learn from Their Mistakes
Free printable coloring pages for kids
Kellie Doyle Bailey’s newest children’s book in the Calm Cool Kids series is almost here—with tons of mindfulness tips to help teach your child how to react during tricky moments.
Rapid Relief from Stress Through Tapping
Free printable worksheet download
Sometimes the key to feeling better is knowing where to tap. Dr. Fred Gallo provides free worksheets to introduce clients to tapping, a powerful practice rooted in energy psychology.
Ask Me Anything About Suicide Prevention: 5 Answers for Clinicians
Essential guidance from Stacey Freedenthal, PhD, LCSW
Many clinicians are unsure how best to treat suicidality and plagued with fear about their clients’ well-being and their own liability. In this candid interview, Stacey Freedenthal, PhD, LCSW, provides answers to five key questions.
Bringing Men to the Table: Recognizing & Treating Eating Disorders in Male Clients
Key considerations for working with male clients
To identify and treat males, it takes a complete re-think of what you assume eating disorders look like and how best to assist. Andrew Walen, LCSW-C, LICSW, CEDS-S, provides key guidance.
Training the Brain to Heal the Anxious Mind
Free printable worksheets from Dr. Catherine Pittman
Dr. Catherine Pittman shows how clients can explore their own fear response—and the amygdala—with these FREE worksheets.
Using EMDR as a Treatment for Mental Health Conditions in Children
This helpful guide highlights how EMDR is used as a treatment in children and how this differs from treatment in adolescents and adults.
EMDR as a Treatment for Autism
EMDR has mainly been popularized due to its success in PTSD patients. In this article, we investigate whether EMDR can be used as a treatment for autism.
The Skill of Savoring: A Polyvagal Tool for Ventral Vagal Regulation
Video demonstration from Deb Dana, LCSW
Clients stuck in cycles of anxiety, fear, and distress need simple, but effective inner guidance to find their way back to safety, connection, and hope. Deb Dana, LCSW, shares a 20-30 second exercise that clients can use to more deeply savor their positive experiences.
Celebrating Gender Identity with Youth Clients
FREE LGBTQ+ Youth worksheets
Sexual orientation is so much more than being gay, straight, or bisexual. PESI author Lee-Anne Gray provides helpful worksheets to aid clients in exploring gender and sexuality.
Treating Binge Eating Disorder, Complex Trauma, and Body Shame
Interview with renowned expert Amy Pershing, LMSW, ACSW
Binge eating disorder is the most underdiagnosed eating disorders, yet it occurs at very high rates in trauma survivors. In this candid interview, Amy Pershing, LMSW, ACSW, explores the intersection of eating disorders and trauma, as well as the implications for treatment.