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When Stress is Contagious: How the Nervous System Shapes Our Interactions
Free exercise to transform relationships, one pause at a time
Dr. Kate Truitt shares how the nervous system influences interpersonal dynamics and introduces practical strategies to help clients recognize and manage these automatic responses, fostering more intentional and constructive interactions.
Pushing Pause on Your Amygdala: Strategies for Slowing Down the Stress Response
Free exercise to rewire stress response
Dr. Kate Truitt discusses how the amygdala, or "Amy," reacts to perceived threats based on past experiences, often leading to stress responses. Plus, a free downloadable exercise designed to interrupt automatic reactions and engage the prefrontal cortex, allowing for more intentional responses to stress.
Bringing Nature Into the Therapy Room: How Ecotherapy-Informed EMDR Deepens Trauma Healing
In a world grappling with climate change, mass displacement, and rising mental health needs, our approaches to trauma must evolve. Ecotherapy-Informed EMDR is one such evolution—a powerful fusion of evidence-based practice, cultural humility, and ecological wisdom.
Balancing Humanity and Healing: Consultation Hour with Dr. Kate Truitt
Dr. Truitt reminds us that showing up as a whole human is the work. Your story, your struggles, your healing—they all matter. The more weallow ourselves to be fully present in our own lives, the more authentically wecan show up in the lives of others.
Healing Parent-Child Estrangement: A Guide for Therapists
Learn how to navigate the emotional complexities of parent-child estrangement with these tips from expert Dafna Lender, LCSW.
Using IFS to Address Existential Angst in a Polarized World
Discover how Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy can help clients navigate existential angst and polarization, fostering deeper self-understanding and healing in an increasingly divided world.
3 Reasons Couples Therapists Should Understand Sex Therapy Better
Discover why understanding sex is essential for couples therapists and how it can deepen your clinical impact. Plus, free worksheets you can use right away!
Why Are Couples and Sex Therapy Taught Separately?
Isabelle Morley, PsyD, explores why these fields have been kept separate—and why an integrated approach could better equip you to help couples build both emotional and physical intimacy.
Integrating NVC with IFS: A New Path to Understanding Our Parts and Their Needs
Learn how integrating Nonviolent Communication (NVC) with Internal Family Systems (IFS) can transform your therapy practice by fostering deeper emotional connections
Introducing Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy to Clients
How Quieting the Storm Within Simplifies the Process
IFS therapy expert J. Ashley T. Booth, LCSW, discusses how her new book, Quieting the Storm Within, simplifies the process of explaining IFS therapy to clients.