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EMDR with Children: Top 3 Challenges You’ll Face & How to Overcome Them
Help young clients cope with their symptoms using EMDR
EMDR therapy can be beneficial for children who have experienced trauma or struggling with other mental health issues. Christine Mark-Griffin, LCSW, shares 3 challenges EMDR-trained clinicians might face when working with young clients and how to overcome them.
Creating a Mindfulness-Based Play Therapy Intervention
Free infographic to help you determine the level of mindfulness from play therapy interventions
Tracy Turner-Bumberry, LPC, helps you determine the level of mindfulness play therapy interventions have when working with young clients.
Be a Better Therapist with Deliberate Practice
Micro-adjustments, fine-tuning, and feedback are keys to moving toward mastery
While books and trainings can help in a limited fashion, experts who study peak performance conclude that focusing on deep learning is a much better way to develop and master skills.
Helping Clients Deal with Infertility Through Affirmations
Free download from Not Your Mother’s Postpartum Book
Summary: Caitlin Slavens and Chelsea Bodie help parents dealing with the emotional pains of infertility with these FREE affirmation exercises. Their highly-anticipated Not Your Mother’s Postpartum Book is available now!
How to Know When Your Client Is Ready to Start EMDR Processing
13-step checklist to assess whether your client is stable enough to begin EMDR processing.
EMDR expert Rotem Brayer shares a 13-step checklist you can use to assess your client's stability and determine if they're ready to start processing.
10 Exercises to Heal Grief and Start Moving Forward
Free infographic to educate your clients in the small steps they can take to lessen their suffering
When clients are grieving, they can feel stuck. This printable resource will help clients rediscover the little joys in their life so they can move forward through grief to eventually find meaning after loss.
When Positive Affirmations Become Weapons
Helping clients to challenge negative self-talk with their own values
Positive affirmations are a popular tool for battling negative self-talk, but they can be weaponized and misused. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes acknowledging negative thoughts and focusing on taking action in line with one's values rather than trying to suppress negative thoughts with positive affirmations. By intentionally using positive affirmations, and not weaponizing them, clients can find relief from negative self-talk and pursue their values instead.
Ask the Expert: Q&A with Colleen West, LMFT
Interview with IFS Flip Chart author Colleen West, LMFT
Colleen West, LMFT, shares her most frequently asked questions for IFS therapy, insight into her IFS Flip Chart and more.
Why Self-Love Is Hard for Women
How to guide female clients past their “shoulds” and toward self-acceptance
Self-love is a challenge to define and develop, particularly for women. Taking unique contexts into consideration, clinicians can help women identify "shoulds" and empower them to choose what self-love means to them.
What to Do When Clients Dissociate
Learn five effective techniques for orienting your client back to the present moment
Taking advanced trainings and consultations in parts work can help take your therapy to the next level, but you can also use these strategies right now for clients who are dissociating.