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Understanding the Five Core Skills of Mindfulness
How to change your brain and build a solid foundation for transformative growth
Terry Fralich, LCPC, shares five core skills of mindfulness and how to best practice them.
How To Help Clients Take Care Of Themselves
Four Ways to Help Clients Effectively Manage Unhelpful Emotions
Hannah Smith, MA, LMHC, CGP, offers four ways professionals can help clients suffering from anxiety effectively manage unhelpful emotions.
Action Precedes Motivation: Why Clients Shouldn’t “Wait Until They Feel Better” To Make A Change
VIDEO: How To Help Clients Who Can’t Get Moving
Dr. Leslie Sokol shares how to help clients struggling with depression get up and moving again.
5 Ways to Help Your Client Break Their Depression Cycle
FREE Depression Relapse Prevention Worksheet
Richard Sears, Psy.D, Ph.D., MBA, ABPP, and the PESI team share helpful tips for depression recovery and relapse prevention.
Self-Regulation Strategies & Techniques for Children with Autism, ADHD, and Sensory Processing Disorder
Plus Earn 1 Free CE Hour
Join Teresa Garland, occupational therapist, international speaker, and author, as she shares over 35 of her most effective interventions.
How to Teach a Child with Autism About Personal Space
FREE Video
In this brief video clip, Tara Delaney, MS, OTR/L, describes her easy-to-use method that helps children with autism understand and apply the concept of "personal space," which in turn helps them adapt more easily into social situations.
Get your clients UNSTUCK
Free DBT Opposite to Emotion Worksheet
Lane Pederson – Opposite to Emotion, often referred to in DBT by O2E (oh-2-ee), recognizes that emotions pull us into “mood congruent” behaviors that get us stuck. When mood congruent behaviors strike, O2E is the heavy-hitting answer clients go to… help your clients get UNSTUCK from prolonged and overly intense emotional states with this approach.
Literacy into a Therapy Plan
FREE Fun with Literacy Worksheets!
Karen Thatcher – Children with learning disabilities require more exposure to literacy-rich environments and opportunities in order to begin developing a foundation for literacy.
As providers, we not only affect a child’s current development, we also have the ability to shape a child’s future academic and social success. It doesn’t have to be hard to incorporate literacy into therapy goals, and here’s how…
No More Therapy Whack-a-mole!
FREE Diary Card Worksheet
In this video, DBT expert Lane Pederson, Psy.D., LP, DBTC, shares a tool that will not only help your clients, but also truly transform how effective you can be as a therapist.
Download a free copy of the Diary Card: www.pesi.com/diarycard
Don’t Struggle with Destructive Behavior in Clients
FREE Video & Behavior Analysis Worksheet
Lane Pederson – International trainer and author shares his FREE Behavior Analysis in a video demonstration and worksheet download to show you how you can engage your clients, how you can help them understand what's behind these behaviors, and more importantly, how you can use this awareness to help them to change.