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How Therapist Can Address the Impact of High-Conflict Personality Styles
Addressing the impact of high-conflict personality styles requires a nuanced, compassionate, and trauma-informed approach. Dr. Ramani Durvasula shares key strategies therapists can use in their sessions right away.
All Parts Are Welcome: Redefining Parenting Dynamics with IFS Therapy
Frank Anderson offers practical strategies, such as using "a part of me" language, managing triggers, and modeling accountability, that you can share to help parents build healthier, more connected family dynamics while fostering emotional growth and healing for both generations.
Navigating Conversations About Race: A Comprehensive Guide for Therapists
Drawing on Dr. Kenneth Hardy's framework, these tools and tips emphasize self-preparation, relational responsibility, and the integration of race-informed approaches for deeper understanding and transformation.
What Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy Brings to Parenting
By highlighting the core principles of IFS, Frank Anderson emphasizes how healing a parent’s emotional wounds can foster a more empathetic, resilient, and growth-oriented environment for both parent and child.
Assessing the Timing of Trauma Treatment and SUDs Treatment
Learn from Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) expert Paul Brasler, LCSW, , CAIP, when therapists should begin trauma treatment for individuals with Substance Use Disorders (SUDs).
Changing Thoughts: Interventions for Anxious Thoughts
Anxiety expert Ashley Smith, PhD provides four key interventions to start helping our clients change the way they’re thinking and begin to quell their anxious thoughts.
How Historical Trauma Can Affect Your Clients
Lisa Connors, PhD, LCPC, LPC, NCC explains the 3 phases of historical trauma, how it can affect your current clients, and how it can affect successive generations.
What Happens When the Internal System is in Conflict
IFS expert Elizabeth Taeubert, LCSW, RN, MS shares what happens when an internal system is in conflict and how therapists can create a space where all parts are seen, heard, and understood.
Breaking the Anxiety Habit Loop: A Mindful Approach to Rewiring Clients' Responses
Reframing anxiety as a habit loop offers a structured approach for helping clients manage their anxiety through mindfulness and self-awareness. Dr. Jud Brewer shares a three-gear exercise therapists can use to empower clients to break free from anxiety-driven cycles.
Navigating ADHD with the 5Cs: A Clinician’s Approach to Family Support
Free printable cards from The ADHD Solution Deck
The 5Cs approach offers therapists a structured, holistic framework to guide parents in supporting children with ADHD. Sharon Saline, PsyD, ADHD-CCSP, shares how this model promotes a collaborative parent-child relationship, encouraging problem-solving and cooperative decision-making, while also maintaining a consistent environment to support stability.