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How to Integrate Nutrition into Mental Health Care
Dr. Leslie Korn provides actionable insights on addressing common nutritional deficiencies, managing the gut-brain connection, and adopting a holistic approach tailored to your clients' individual needs.
Tools for Resilience: How Somatic Experiencing Transforms Trauma Treatment
World-leading somatic therapy expert Abi Blakeslee shares an in-depth introduction to Somatic Experiencing® (SE), highlighting its science-backed techniques for addressing trauma through the body. Plus, tools you can use right away in the therapy room.
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.