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What is EMDR therapy and how does it work?
EMDR is a treatment for PTSD, focusing on using bilateral stimulation (BLS) to help the brain access and process traumatic memories. Learn more.
Picking Apart Pain
An exclusive first look at Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: The Workbook
Get a preview of Lori Gottlieb's new workbook with a free exercise that shows how a shift in perspective can reduce unpleasant emotions.
5 Resources for Virtual EMDR
Free Tools to Bring to Your Next Session
Conduct successful EMDR trauma treatment sessions via telehealth without sacrificing effectiveness with these five free resources recommended by Megan McQuary, LCSW, CSUD, EMDR CIT.
Adapting EMDR to Telehealth
Guidance from an EMDR-certified expert
EMDR is an essential tool in the treatment of trauma that can accelerate therapeutic outcomes, but skillful utilization of EMDR via telehealth is not without challenges. Learn the extra steps that must be taken prior to your first virtual EMDR session.
Attending to Dissociative Symptoms with Parts Work Therapy: Looking at the Inner Child
Learn how parts work can be used in the treatment of complex PTSD
By helping clients develop an awareness of their inner child, we can work to integrate trauma-related emotions and memories from childhood that have been sent into “exile.”
Somatic Psychology in the Treatment of Complex PTSD
Attending to Areas of Numbness or Disconnection
Through the process of dual awareness, you can help clients better connect to their body and connect areas of numbness, tension, or discomfort to their trauma history.
Treating Borderline Personality Disorder: 3 Strategies That Work
Learn 3 techniques you can immediately use in your practice!
Borderline personality disorder remains widely misunderstood. Dr. Daniel Fox takes you through some of the most common misconceptions in light of what recent research shows us and provides three easy-to-implement strategies for working with clients who have BPD.
Connection & Co-Regulation: Using Self-Awareness to Model Self-Regulation
Learn from a leading voice in the healing of PTSD & complex trauma
As a therapist, developing your own embodied awareness can help you better attune to clients’ somatic patterns of autonomic arousal and allow you to bring co-regulation into therapy.
Zoom Fatigue, It’s Real
How to Keep Children and Teens Engaged in Online Therapy
Doing therapy online has become the new normal, but it presents unique challenges many clinicians have not dealt with previously. Laura Dessauer gives us six new strategies to try out with clients as well as tips on how her newest publication, Art Therapy Card Deck for Children and Adolescents, can successfully introduce creativity into online sessions!
Finding Your Rainbow
Redefining Fertility and Regaining Control After Pregnancy Loss
Although pregnancy loss often takes away our sense of agency and control, we can use our values as a compass to find our own unique rainbow and live a fertile life.