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The Superpower of Psychological Flexibility
Tips to defuse from unhelpful, narrow ways of thinking that limit what’s possible for you
Research shows that higher levels of psychological flexibility provide a wide range of benefits, including higher levels of mental health and lower stress levels. Dr. Aprilia West offers some insight and an exercise to improve psychological flexibility.
Highly Sensitive People & Gaslighting
Free worksheet download to help you and clients decide when gaslighting is happening
Highly sensitive people can be more susceptible to gaslighting and manipulation. Authors of the new book, The Clinician’s Guide to Treating Adult Children of Narcissists, describe why this is the case, and offer a free worksheet to help clients and therapists differentiate between gaslighting or simply experiencing a variance between how two or more people perceive something.
Using a Somatic Approach for BIPOC Clients
A simple and effective mindfulness exercise with Dr. Chinwé Williams, PhD
In this video, Dr. Williams invites you to practice a mindfulness exercise to use with your BIPOC clients to help them in the process of learning deeper self-awareness, how to regulate their nervous system, and manage their anxiety before it spirals from tolerable to overwhelming.
Help Clients Reduce Anxiety Through Mindfulness
Free infographic to help reduce your clients' anxiety and engage with the present moment
Help your clients commit to using their senses of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell to channel their thoughts in a purposeful direction with this downloadable exercise.
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.
Help Parents Navigate Divorce with Kids
Interventions for anxious, depressed and oppositional children
Watch child-family psychologist, Dr. Steve O’Brien, provide you with a practical treatment approach for children struggling with anxiety, depression, and oppositional behavior secondary to divorced and blended family stressors.
The 3 R's of Anxiety Management for Children
Actionable skills and strategies to help students struggling with anxiety
Anxiety expert Dr. Steve O’Brien shares the 3 R’s of Anxiety Management, including a handful of actionable skills and strategies to help students struggling with anxiety and help create a learning-conducive environment for all your students.
Anxiety in Schools in a Post-Pandemic World
Strategies to effectively treat anxiety in a school setting
Anxiety especially is at an all-time high and appears to be affecting larger percentages of the population. Ashley Rose, LCSW, LSSW, shares classroom-based strategies to treat anxiety and help children heal in a post-pandemic world.
Help Heal Your Clients' Relationship with Food and Body
A simple exercise for your clients with emotional and/or disordered eating
Ann Saffi Biasetti, PhD, LCSWR, CEDS, shares with us an upper body scan that introduces interceptive awareness to help heal your clients' relationship with food and body.
Using AEDP to Treat Complex Trauma
A live demonstration of what Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) can look like during therapy
Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) experts Kari Gleiser, PhD, and Natasha Prenn, LCSW, give us a live demonstration of what AEDP can look like in-session.