Blogs
Race to Right Here Right Now
Mindfulness as a key to lasting happiness
Practice mindfulness — download three favorite (and FREE) mindfulness techniques developed especially for teens.
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!
Use Your Pause Button: Stop, Drop, and Breathe
A Self-Regulation Strategy for Parents
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
Free strategy from the Letting Go of Anger Card Deck
The following, easy to visualize, empowering metaphor can quickly help clients free themselves from feeling trapped in by anger.
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.
Letting Go of Anger
A simple skill to successfully manage teen anger
Float on a Cloud is a popular and highly effective tool to manage not only a teen's anger, but also those underlying, super-strong feelings felt immediately before anger such as: frustration, fear, hurt, failure, humiliation, shame, sadness, rejection, distrust, jealousy, inadequacy, and insecurity. Just follow these 4 simple steps...
CBT Tools for Resolving Anxiety in Children & Adolescents
Two FREE worksheets you can use today
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.
My Journey as a Doctor Treating Pain
What science has taught me about pill-free approaches to pain management
What causes chronic pain when the area that hurts hasn't been physically impacted? We suspect that childhood trauma, adult trauma, prolonged exposure to opioids, and prolonged exposure to pain are just some of the triggers. We know that pills or surgery can't fix this — but behavioral therapy can...
5 Strategies for Forging Healthy Relationships with Others (and Yourself)
How to Make Connections for a Truly Happy Life after 50
By Andrea Brandt - In this third part of a three-part series adapted from the upcoming book Mindful Aging: Embracing Your Life after 50 to Find Fulfillment, Purpose, and Joy, author and clinician Andrea Brandt looks at how a more intentional relationship with ourselves can lead to more satisfying relationships with others.
Tips for Living the Life You Want
Think Your Greatest Success is Out of Reach? Think Again
By Andrea Brandt - In this second part of a three-part series adapted from the upcoming book Mindful Aging: Embracing Your Life after 50 to Find Fulfillment, Purpose, and Joy, author and clinician Andrea Brandt looks at how to increase awareness of what brings you joy.