Blogs and Free Resources
Here at PESI, our mission is to provide professionals like you with FREE practical and valuable tools, strategies,
and resources to assist with the great work you do. Find expert tips, helpful worksheets, demonstration videos, CE, news,
and more here. Happy learning!
In Consultation: Seeing Children through a Polyvagal Lens
As published in Psychotherapy Networker Magazine
Polyvagal Theory widens the perspective on managing kids’ challenging behaviors.
Art & Science of Psychopharmacology
Helping clients get and stay well
Susan Marie has created The Art and Science of Psychopharmacology and it is filled with practical and adaptable strategies, client-friendly language, and the most up-to-date information about the medications being used to manage: depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, psychosis, and insomnia.Learn more about the resource that guides you through the various medications for each of these diagnoses and how to form essential conversations around your client’s prescription.
Stop Hesitating
A quick, highly directive guide to initiating conversations with your Black clients about George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, other lives lost, Minnesota, Louisville, and racial trauma
Are you a white therapist who’s not sure how to start the conversation about racial trauma with your Black clients? Are you unsure of how to hold space for what they’re feeling? Then check out Elizabeth McCorvey’s one-page guide to opening up dialogue with your clients.
How Can White Therapists Be Better Allies?
Deepening the Conversation around Race-Based Trauma
What does it mean to be an ally to people of color? What steps can therapists take to heal race-based trauma and deepen the conversation around racial injustice in therapy and in the wider community? Several clinicians and leaders in our field share their perspectives.
DEAR MAN: A Dialectical Behavior Therapy skill for building interpersonal effectiveness
Watch this FREE, short video to learn an easy way to voice your needs and wants.
Lane Pederson shows you step-by-step how to use the acronym DEAR MAN to help your clients learn how to speak their needs.
Janina Fisher on Telehealth Treatment of Addictive Behavior
FREE CE. Develop a toolkit for helping clients with addictive behavior virtually.
Understanding why it feels safer for clients to abuse drugs and alcohol, to act out sexually, or to binge/purge food, is key to enhancing your work with addictions recovery. That's why Janina Fisher is offering you this FREE CE video.
In This Together!
During these challenging times, I hear “everything has changed.” But is that really true? (Activity and free worksheet)
While it may feel like our new normal is nothing like the old, we need to recognize the silver linings this time has brought forth. This blog, activity and free worksheets helps us realize the importance of reaching out to others and celebrates our feelings of accomplishment when we are able to help someone else.
73 DBT Mindfulness Exercises
FREE Worksheet Download
Lane Pederson – Mindfulness is a skillset at the heart of DBT. Yet, many therapists struggle teaching mindfulness practices to clients.
Practicing mindfulness skills open doors to acceptance, experience, and connection to yourself and the world.
Download 73 mindfulness exercises you can use with your clients to help them slow down and find peace, contentment, and enjoyment in everyday life.
LGBTQ+ Youth Book Club
A guided book club with clinical resources to celebrate Pride month
June is Pride Month, so join us in celebrating by discussing Dr. Lee-Anne Gray’s LGBTQ+ Youth: A Guided Workbook to Support Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.
Working with Eating Concerns in the Time of Corona
How therapists can help clients avoid self-judgment at this time.
The current crisis is triggering many clients with eating and weight issues, due to the combination of increased stress, disrupted shopping and eating habits, and the increased cultural focus on food. Judith Matz, a therapist and author specialising in disordered eating, suggests how therapists can help clients avoid self-judgment at this time, and move towards making the choices that best support their physical and emotional wellbeing.