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FREE CLINICAL SELF-ASSESSMENT SERIES

Find where your clinical strengths already point.

Confidential self-assessments built for practicing clinicians, rehab and healthcare professionals. Answer honestly; see how your skills and interests line up with your specialty area. Get a personalized read on where to grow next, for your career and clients.

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Trauma Professional Assessment

Gauge how your current approach to trauma-informed care lines up with the clinical demands of complex trauma caseloads.

Where your trauma-response instincts are already strong
Gaps between your training and what complex cases require
Whether a deeper trauma specialization fits your caseload

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Take the ADHD Professional Assessment Today

ADHD Professional Assessment

See how confidently you assess, differentiate, and treat ADHD across ages.

Your comfort level differentiating ADHD from co-occurring conditions
How you'd handle treatment-planning scenarios
Whether an ADHD specialization track matches your caseload

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Couples Therapy Professional Assessment

Reflect on your insticints in-session with couples, from de-escalation to structuring a treatment plan.

How you navigate high-conflict sessions
Your familiarity with structured couples therapy framework
Whether couples work could become a bigger part of your practice

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Free Blogs for Mental Health, Rehab, and Healthcare Professionals

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Why I Tell Clinicians the "RP" in ERP Is the Part That Actually Does the Work

Dr. Ashley Smith on why response prevention, not exposure, is the key to effective ERP for pediatric OCD.

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Clinical Tools for Treating Anxiety That Actually Help Your Clients Feel Progress

Therapist-tested nervous system regulation techniques, breathwork, and self-monitoring strategies clinicians can use with anxious clients starting this week.

Alison Seponara

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How to Apply ERP in a Developmentally Sensitive Way

How clinicians can adapt exposure and response prevention (ERP) for children and teens, address family accommodation, and build developmentally appropriate ERP hierarchies that actually disrupt obsessive-compulsive patterns.

Roberto Olivardia

Man Behind A Glass

Applying Parts Work to Dissociation and Fragmentation

Practical parts work strategies for clinicians treating dissociation: body tracking, titration, and session moves for complex trauma clients.

Arielle Schwartz

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Understanding Dissociation and Fragmentation in Complex Trauma

Dissociation isn't pathology, it's survival. Dr. Arielle Schwartz on the polyvagal roots of fragmentation in complex trauma clients.

Arielle Schwartz

High Five

One Tool That Helps Clients with ADHD Build Connection Without the Overwhelm

Dr. Sharon Saline shares a practical ADHD therapy tool that helps clients with social anxiety and rejection sensitivity build real-world communication skills and connection.

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Mindfulness Myths That Might Be Holding Your Clients Back

Dr. Lane Pederson debunks common misconceptions and shares free mindfulness exercises to use in session today.

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The Body as Ally: A Clinician's Guide to Embodied Healing in Eating Disorder

Learn how to guide eating disorder clients toward embodied healing using Catherine Cook-Cottone's three-intelligences framework.

Catherine Cook-Cottone

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Man Behind A Glass

Applying Parts Work to Dissociation and Fragmentation

Practical parts work strategies for clinicians treating dissociation: body tracking, titration, and session moves for complex trauma clients.

Arielle Schwartz

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Understanding the Mental Health Effects of Medical Trauma

Medical trauma is more common than clinicians realize, and it's showing up in your clients as avoidance, hyperarousal, depression, and distrust of the very care they need. Learn how to identify medical PTSD (mPTSD), understand its prevalence across critical illness populations, and apply trauma-informed strategies to help clients who've been wounded by the healthcare system itself.

Michelle Flaum Sacha Mcbain

Colorful Mind

How Trauma Is Stored in the Body — And Why It Matters in Your Work

Explore how trauma isn't just a psychological experience to better understand why somatic imprints are crucial for effective therapeutic work.

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A Neurobiologically-Informed Approach for Fast Trauma Treatment

Explore how neuroscience can guide trauma treatment by understanding implicit memory, nervous system dysregulation, and the body’s innate capacity to heal through mindful, body-centered interventions.

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What Therapists Need to Know About the Link Between Stress, Suppression, and Chronic Illness

Drawing on decades of experience in family medicine and palliative care, Dr. Gabor Maté makes a compelling case for the inseparability of mind and body.

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How to Use CPR for the Amygdala in Your Practice

Dr. Kate Truitt, author of Healing in Your Hands, explains the four fundamental steps of the CPR for the Amygdala® protocol and how it can help your clients show up for themselves in a loving, proactive way.

Kate Truitt, PHD, MBA

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Befriending the Body in Trauma Recovery

Trauma certainly alters the mind, but it also affects the physical body. Psychologist and yoga therapist Catherine Cook-Cottone provides a free exercise from The Embodied Healing Workbook to begin reconnecting—and recommitting—to your body.

Catherine Cook-Cottone, PHD

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Quick Practices for Recovering from Trauma – Anytime, Anywhere!

International trauma expert Janina Fisher offers up FREE practices from the Living Legacy of Trauma Card Deck to help clients suffering from all forms of trauma.

Janina Fisher, PHD

Trauma Blogs

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Five IFS Principles to Support Effective EMDR Trauma Reprocessing

Learn how to integrate Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy with EMDR to enhance trauma treatment for complex cases.

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Helping Clients Befriend Their Hyperaroused and Hypoaroused Parts

Dr. Alexia Rothman blends concepts from IFS therapy and PVT to support therapists in guiding clients toward self-trust, nervous system regulation, and inner harmony.

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The IFS 6Fs: Simple Steps to Helping Protective Parts Differentiate from the Self

Help your clients gain clarity so they can begin the healing process with this simple 6-step process from Dr. Frank Anderson, lead trainer at the IFS Institute.

Frank Anderson, MD

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6 Step IFS Process to Jumpstart Healing

Frank Anderson - Use this simple exercise from the evidence-based Internal Family Systems therapy model to help your clients understand and work with their internal parts — so they can begin the deep healing process that traumatic wounds require.

Frank Anderson, MD

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Dr. Richard Schwartz: Wake Up Calls and Trail Heads

Dr. Richard Schwartz, founder of IFS, speaks on how COVID-19 is a triggering situation that has an array of effects on all of our parts and how this is a wakeup call not just for us personally, but also for the planet, countries, and corporations.

Richard C. Schwartz, PHD

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All Parts are Welcome

Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) provides a revolutionary treatment plan for PTSD, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, eating disorders and more. Using a non-pathologizing, accelerated approach — rooted in neuroscience — IFS applies inner resources and self-compassion for healing emotional wounding at its core. Plus check out this FREE resource!

Frank Anderson, MD

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Mindfulness Meets Internal Family Systems: Richard Schwartz on Helping Clients Move from Acceptance to Transformation

A perennial quandary in psychotherapy, as well as spirituality, is whether the goal is to help people come to accept the inevitable pain of the human condition with more equanimity or to actually transform and heal the pain, shame, or terror, so that it’s no longer a problem. Are we seeking acceptance or transformation, passive observation or engaged action, a stronger connection to the here-and-now or an understanding of the past?

Richard C. Schwartz, PHD

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Internal Family Systems: No part left behind

Developed by Dick Schwartz in the 80’s, IFS started as a grassroots therapy model and is quickly becoming a sought after treatment. We sat down with Frank Guastella Anderson, M.D., and director of the Center for Self Leadership, to get the scoop on what makes this emerging therapy the hot new kid on the block.

Frank Anderson, MD

IFS Blogs

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Understanding Dissociation and Fragmentation in Complex Trauma

Dissociation isn't pathology, it's survival. Dr. Arielle Schwartz on the polyvagal roots of fragmentation in complex trauma clients.

Arielle Schwartz

Eye On The Network Connections

Five IFS Principles to Support Effective EMDR Trauma Reprocessing

Learn how to integrate Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy with EMDR to enhance trauma treatment for complex cases.

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Bringing Nature Into the Therapy Room: How Ecotherapy-Informed EMDR Deepens Trauma Healing

In a world grappling with climate change, mass displacement, and rising mental health needs, our approaches to trauma must evolve. Ecotherapy-Informed EMDR is one such evolution—a powerful fusion of evidence-based practice, cultural humility, and ecological wisdom.

Jennifer Marchand

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Be a Better Therapist with Deliberate Practice

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.

Rotem Brayer, MED, LPC

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How to Know When Your Client Is Ready to Start 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.

Rotem Brayer, MED, LPC

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What to Do When Clients Dissociate

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.

Rotem Brayer, MED, LPC

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EMDR: Safety and Stabilization

In addition to improved practice outcomes, effective integration of EMDR can lead to the long-term trauma resolution that your clients so desperately desire. But we need to stop and ask: when and with whom do we use EMDR?

Linda Curran, BCPC, LPC, CAC-D, CCDPD, EMDR-C

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VIDEO: Bessel van der Kolk on Effective Trauma Treatment with EMDR

Trauma is about horror. A horrendous reality that you don't want to remember...

Our clients are often dealing with the unspeakable. Are you using tools that promote healing, or are you re-traumatizing the people who've come to you for help?

Listen to this fascinating case in this free short video —and learn insights on the ONE TOOL all trauma therapists should have.

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk, MD

EMDR Blogs

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How to Engage Clients and Provide DBT More Effectively

Get practical strategies and clinician insights on how to better engage clients in treatment and deliver Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) more effectively.

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5 Steps of the Wise Mind Process: Strategies for Facing Difficulties

Dr. Andrew Bein, a seasoned instructor with an energetic, hands-on approach to mindfulness-based practices and Dialectical Behavior Therapy education, shares the 5 steps of the Wise Mind Process to help clients identify, accept, and let go of the judgments that keep them stuck.

Andrew Bein, PHD, LCSW

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Dealing with Judgments Exercise: Adapting DBT for Everyday Clinical Needs

Dr. Andrew Bein, a seasoned instructor with an energetic, hands-on approach to mindfulness-based practices and Dialectical Behavior Therapy education, demonstrates the Dealing with Judgment exercise.

Andrew Bein, PHD, LCSW

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Using Dialectical Behavior Therapy to Build a Life Worth Living

The primary goals of DBT are to help clients identify alife worth living and guide them towards changes that’llhelp them reach their goals. With this practical and printable tool from Katelyn Baxter-Musser, LCSW, CDBT, it's easy to work together to establish your clients' goals.

Katelyn Baxter-Musser, LCSW, C-DBT

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DEAR MAN: A Dialectical Behavior Therapy skill for building interpersonal effectiveness

Lane Pederson shows you step-by-step how to use the acronym DEAR MAN to help your clients learn how to speak their needs.

Lane Pederson, PSYD, LP, C-DBT

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73 DBT Mindfulness Exercises

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.

Lane Pederson, PSYD, LP, C-DBT

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Get your clients UNSTUCK

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.

Lane Pederson, PSYD, LP, C-DBT

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No More Therapy Whack-a-mole!

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.

Lane Pederson, PSYD, LP, C-DBT

DBT Blogs

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Calculate Mean Arterial Pressure (MAP) with Confidence

Critical care and emergency nurse expert Sean G. Smith provides an easy-to-use strategy for understanding and calculating Mean Arterial Pressure (MAP).

Sean G. Smith, MSC, FP-C, C-NPT, CEN, CFRN, CTRN, TCRN, CPEN, CCRN-CMC (ADULT), CCRN-K (NEONATAL), CCRN-K (PEDIATRIC)

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A Guide to Understanding ABGs

A simple cheat sheet to reference when reading Arterial Blood Gas (ABG) test results.

Cyndi Zarbano, MSN-ED, CCRN, CMSRN, LNC

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Mastering Lab Interpretation: Hypokalemia

What can the T wave and the U wave on an EKG tell us about potassium levels?

When replacing potassium, if I have a choice of IV or orally, which one is preferred??

Get the answers to these questions and more in this quick video.

Cyndi Zarbano, MSN-ED, CCRN, CMSRN, LNC

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How to Use Light Therapy to Reduce Inflammation

Many people are turning to non-invasive therapies to fight inflammation, some of which are highly effective and have far fewer side effects than their pharmaceutical counterparts. Learn how to use red light therapy to reduce inflammation by using these simple questions to guide you.

Genevieve Newton, DC, PHD

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Navigating the Complexities of Pelvic Health & Intimacy

Krystyna Holland, PT, DPT, underscores the increasing importance of discussions on pelvic health and describes their diverse cases, emphasizing a patient-centric approach that includes addressing issues related to physical intimacy and promoting trauma-informed, inclusive healthcare to deliver empathetic and effective care.

Krystyna Holland, PT, DPT

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Dual Task Training in Stroke Rehabilitation

Unfulfilled rehabilitation potential is one of the greatest losses a stroke patient may face. Learn from Mike Studer, PT, MHS, NCS, CEEAA, CWT, CSST, FAPTA, the importance of dual task training in moving your stroke rehab forward!

Mike Studer, PT, DPT, MHS,NCS, CEEAA, CWT, CSST, CBFP, CSRP, FAPTA

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The Minimalist Running Movement: What To Tell Your Patients

Proponents of minimalist running say that running without shoes, or in minimally padded footwear, is safer and more effective, while critics point out that barefoot running often leads to an increase in injuries. But what's the truth? Jon Mulholland, DC, CCSP, CSCS, explains what you need to know.

Jon Mulholland, DC, CCSP, CSCS, ICSC

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Free CE Seminar: Intro to Musculoskeletal Ultrasound

Revolutionize your clinical practice as you capture high-resolution views of muscles, tendons, ligaments, nerves, and joints — on the spot! In this free webinar, Jeannine Noble, PT, MS, RMSK, provides an overview and demonstration of musculoskeletal ultrasound.

Jeannine Noble, PT, MS, RMSK

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Let the Joint-by-Joint Approach Guide Your SI Joint Treatment

Dr. Jon Mulholland provides an overview of the joint-by-joint approach: why it works and how it can greatly influence your treatment plan for any patient.

Jon Mulholland, DC, CCSP, CSCS, ICSC

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Rethink Treatment of Common Foot Conditions

Dr. Courtney Conley demonstrates how rethinking treatment plans for foot pain can provide more effective outcomes - without a lengthy amount of time spent in orthotics.

Courtney Conley, DC

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Custom Bike Fit for Cyclists

Poor form while cycling can lead to numbness, back and neck pain, headaches, and more. Learn from industry insiders how to do a bike fit in your own clinic and help your patients prevent these common issues.

Milica Mcdowell, MS, DPT Paul Herberger, BS, CPT CF-2

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Manual Lymph Drainage for Edema Reduction

Manual lymph drainage (MLD) is a time-tested, non-invasive treatment that’s gentle for both the patient and the practitioner. In a video demonstration, see the transformative impact it made on a 99-year-old patient.

Elisa Difalco, MS, OT, CMLDT, LMT

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Food Refusal? Try Food Exploring!

Angela Mansolillo, MA/CCC-SLP, BCS-S, offers helpful tips for feeding therapists and their clients.

Angela Mansolillo, MA/CCC-SLP, BCS-S

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Can Adding an iPad® to Therapy Increase Your Patient's Cooperation?

Your iPad is a powerful tool for more than just games and streaming video. Explore how you can use tech beyond apps to motivate and engage your patients.

Lorelei Woerner-Eisner, OTR/L, C-IAYT, E-RYT500

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