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21 Daily Practices to Improve Your Relationship
Use the science of mindfulness and CBT to strengthen your bond.
Nothing has a bigger influence on our well-being than the quality of our closest connections. In this blog, Seth Gillihan PhD, offers 21 ways to build stronger and closer relationships. Plus, he's giving away his FREE Worksheet: 10 Ways to Manage Stress and Anxiety Every Day.
What Hookup Culture Means for the Future of Millennial Love
Alexandra Solomon on the Emotional Toll of Hypersexualized Dating
Even though young adults seem to be craving some safety to balance their adventure, hookup culture continues to thrive, as much as many therapists would love to see young adults create something more fulfilling than ambiguous, drunken, unsatisfying sex. Whatever changes lie ahead in our cultural rituals for coming-of-age relationally, we’ll be seeing in our therapy practices the emotional legacy of hookup culture, in all its rawness and frantic incoherence, for many years to come.
14 Products to Spread the Love
Be Your Best Self, To Be the Best Partner
This month focus on loving yourself to better love those around you. These 14 titles rooted in Self-Compassion, Gratitude and Deep Conversation will help grow your heart to spread your love beyond yourself.
The Gottmans on Mastering the Brain’s 7 Pathways to Emotional Connection
What Successful Couples Are Doing Right
John and Julie Gottman explain what research has revealed about the crucial role the brain’s seven different command systems can play in enhancing the quality of couples’ emotional connection.
How Couples Stay in Love For a Lifetime
Plus earn FREE CE...
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!
Reconnecting Couples with Solution-Focused Therapy
Solution-Focused Therapy helps clients recognize their internal resources, identify personal strengths and build on what is already working for them.
Elliott Connie — Designed to complement any therapeutic framework, the Solutions Focused Therapy (SFT) approach engages and activates clients to make a change, whether they are new to therapy or have found themselves "stuck" in the therapeutic process.
The SFT approach helps your clients identify, create, and live the kind of life they've been longing for.
9 Ways to Celebrate Romance Awareness Month
[FREE Download] 125 Sexuality Conversation Starters
It's Romance Awareness Month, here are 9 ways to celebrate.
Plus, get Esther Perel's 125 Questions to initiate Conversations about Sexuality to help your clients discover the path to a wonderful intimate connection!
The Myth of Sex Addiction, Common Mistakes, and More
VIDEO: Joe Kort on Doing Your Best Work with LGBTQ Clients
Is the sex addiction model doing more harm than good? What's the difference between sexual orientation and gender identity? And what are the most common mistakes therapists make when working with LGBTQ clients, and how can you avoid them? Sex therapist Joe Kort answers these questions and more.
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.
This study changes the way therapists treat couples and families…
Research shows that secure attachment gives us a more articulated and positive sense of self. It also changes the way we perceive threats and makes us feel safer in the world. Let me show you what I mean...