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How to Become a Couples Therapist
The founder of Relational Life Therapy (RLT) Terry Real explains how couples therapy doesn’t need to be scary and how incredibly rewarding it can be to add to your clinical toolbox.
Understanding the Complex Relationship Between Trauma and Narcissistic Abuse
Renowned experts Dr. Ramani Durvasula and Dr. Kate Truitt share the latest in neuroscience to pinpoint healing opportunities for your clients and share steps you can use to help clients recover from trauma and build a path toward self-empowerment, and so much more.
The Difference Between Baby Blues vs Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorder
Symptoms of baby blues and postpartum depression and anxiety look and feel the same, but they are different in a few important ways. Use this free infographic to help you and your clients understand the difference and when to be further evaluated.
Understanding the Four Phases of Integrated Attachment Family Therapy (IAFT)
Integrated Attachment Family Therapy (IAFT) offers a powerful mental health intervention that can help families to heal. IAFT expert Dafna Lender walks you through the IAFT phases, providing therapeutic insight and free worksheets to help families achieve meaningful and lasting change.
Help Parents Connect and Redirect with their Child During Tough Moments
Free worksheets from The Whole-Brain Child Workbook
Connecting with children during difficult moments helps them feel that that they're being heard and their feelings are not being invalidated. Use these free worksheets to learn about the Connect and Redirect strategy from bestselling authors Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson.
Help Clients Discover What’s Bringing Them to Therapy with This Exercise
Free worksheet from Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: The Workbook
What's bringing your client to the therapy room? Best-selling author Lori Gottlieb reflects on the work clients do in therapy and provides an exercise to help clients unearth what's bringing them to session.
Beyond Fixes or Feelings: Coaching Your Couples to Do Both
Relationship expert Elizabeth Earnshaw guides you through the roles of the "Emotion Coach" and the "Solution Coach" — one values empathy, fostering understanding of emotions for relationship growth, while the other prioritizes problem-solving. By embracing these differences, couples can navigate conflicts more effectively.
Recognizing and Working with Client Dysregulation: Quick Tips for Therapists
As a therapist, it's crucial for you to be aware of your clients' autonomic states at any given moment during session. Annie Chen, LMFT, shares a tool designed to simplify the complexity of our nervous system’s responses, providing clients and therapists with a clear roadmap for understanding dysregulation.
FREE CE Seminar: Preventing and Treating Disease with Diet
Healthy eating underpins almost every dimension of well-being. In this free webinar, Dr. Michael Greger offers a glimpse into the forefront of research delving into how diet might intervene to prevent, halt, or even reverse the primary causes of mortality and impairment.
Get to Know a Face of PESI - Lindsay Gibson, PsyD
Get to know Lindsay Gibson,PsyD, Amazon #1 Best Selling Author of Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting or Self-Involved Parents.