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Helping Clients Understand the Traumatized Brain
Learn From An Expert And Earn Free CE
The brain is a complex organ that can be difficult to explain in a way for clients to understand. Learn from renowned trauma expert Janina Fisher how to help trauma survivors better understand their brain function…and better facilitate the healing process.
Lead clients stuck in cycles of anxiety, fear, distress, and loneliness back to safety so they can start to heal
Polyvagal Theory clinical application expert Deb Dana reveals how to help clients feel safe enough to begin healing and make lasting, positive changes.
Discover a simple tool that helps clients feel safe so they can start the healing process and make lasting changes.
The Effect of Feeling: Pleasant and Unpleasant
Elana Rosenbaum, MS, MSW, LICSW, reveals a simple technique for reducing anxiety
Elana Rosenbaum, MS, MSW, LICSW, reveals a simple technique that helps clients transform thoughts and feelings to reduce anxiety.
Wired for Fear
Recognizing Toxic Stress in the Classroom
Students who have been exposed to toxic stress are wired for fear: They live in a state of constant nervous system activation that often shows up in the classroom as challenging or disruptive behavior. When you learn to recognize these signs of fight, flight, or freeze, you can respond in a more compassionate and trauma-informed manner.
How Trauma Creates Narrow “Windows of Tolerance” in Survivors
Why trauma survivors react dramatically to stimulus, and how you can help them handle stress in healthy ways
Trauma survivors can struggle to self-regulate and control their responses to everyday stressors and the unexpected. In this short video, Irina Diyankova, Ph.D., RYT-200 reveals why trauma survivors are more prone to extreme reactions to stress such as rage, binge drinking and self-harm.
Breathing Is the Key to Managing Stress and Anxiety
Simple breathing exercises can calm you down when you’re overwhelmed by stress and anxiety.
Stress and anxiety are a part of life, no question. But chronic stress and worry, if left unchecked, can harm both your physical and mental health. The first step to controlling your body’s responses to stress is to control your breathing, using these simple techniques.
How To Help Clients Take Care Of Themselves
Four Ways to Help Clients Effectively Manage Unhelpful Emotions
Hannah Smith, MA, LMHC, CGP, offers four ways professionals can help clients suffering from anxiety effectively manage unhelpful emotions.
PESI Book Club: August 2019
Check out this month's featured books and free worksheets!
Summer isn’t over yet! Check out these essential reads for August.
Race to Right Here Right Now
Mindfulness as a key to lasting happiness
Practice mindfulness — download three favorite (and FREE) mindfulness techniques developed especially for teens.
Shaping the Conversations of Love: 2 Simple Techniques for Working with Distressed Couples
In this free, short video, Dr. Sue Johnson will show you two simple EFT techniques to help partners have conversations that redefine a distressed relationship and ensure you're shaping a more secure bond.