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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.
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.
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.
Understanding the Six Types of Boundaries
Free infographic to educate your clients on how to uphold personal limits
Boundaries expert Nedra Glover Tawwab shares six types of boundary setting so your clients can learn what violations can look like and how they can protect their peace.
EMDR for Kids: How to Playfully Integrate Into Your Practice
Free EMDR worksheets for kids
When Christine Mark-Griffin, LCSW, began working with young kids, she quickly realized that traditional therapy was often not enough to fully unravel the trauma and pain these little ones were carrying, so she set out to create EMDR resources to help.
Top 10 Resources for Managing and Overcoming ADHD
Our ADHD-focused books and card decks can assist you on your journey in learning how to treat, manage, and overcome this disorder.
PESI Publishing has gathered its top ADHD resources for clinicians, parents, and clients—along with FREE content from ADHD expert Dr. Russell Barkley!
The Ultimate Guide to Starting and Growing Your Private Practice
Start or expand your business and earn what you’re worth as a therapist.
You deserve the freedom and flexibility to give more time to your life and family. Let us help you build the life you want... one where you control your career and time... one where you’re fulfilled and financially secure. Join us for our FREE Private Practice Business Bootcamp to discover how to handle the business side of therapy so you can reimagine what’s possible as a therapist.
Ask Me Anything About Suicide Prevention: 5 Answers for Clinicians
Essential guidance from Stacey Freedenthal, PhD, LCSW
Many clinicians are unsure how best to treat suicidality and plagued with fear about their clients’ well-being and their own liability. In this candid interview, Stacey Freedenthal, PhD, LCSW, provides answers to five key questions.
Incorporating Religion & Spirituality into Grief Counseling
Clinical considerations and implications for treatment
It's become clearer and clearer that effective grief treatment needs to incorporate clients' spiritual beliefs. Dr. Christina Zampitella, PsyD, FT, shares tips for clinicians to increase their comfort level and effectively make space for clients' spiritual beliefs.
Ask a Therapist: How Do I Teach My Child Social-Emotional Skills?
3 proven strategies for SEL development
Summer doesn’t have to mean a vacation from learning. Lisa Weed Phifer offers up social-emotional learning exercises to get kids ready for the start of a new school year.