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Dealing with Pregnancy Loss, Infertility, and Other Postpartum Grief
Caitlin Slavens and Chelsea Bodie help parents dealing with the emotional pains of motherhood with these FREE affirmation exercises. Their highly-anticipated Not Your Mother’s Postpartum Book is available for pre-order now!
15 Books to Heal from Trauma & Cultivate Resiliency
Top clinical resources to honor Trauma Awareness Month
In honor of Trauma Awareness Month, PESI is proud to provide clients and clinicians with 15 titles to lead those who suffer from trauma toward healing.
Enhancing Self-Regulation Through Play Therapy
Free trauma-informed play therapy demonstration & worksheets
Many children with big behaviors need help learning how to regulate themselves more quickly or more effectively. PESI author Paris Goodyear-Brown provides a simple sensory-soothing activity that can be particularly helpful for children who struggle to close their eyes and relax.
Excavating Hard Things
Free trauma-informed play therapy intervention
When a child is experiencing the intrusive or avoidance symptoms of PTSD, building a coherent narrative becomes essential to treatment. Paris Goodyear-Brown, MSSW, LCSW, RPT-S, demonstrates an exercise designed to help children verbalize their big emotions.
15 Books Therapists Should Already Have on Their Shelves
Clinical resources addressing trauma, psychopharmacology, ethics, and more
Discover essential reads for new practitioners and seasoned experts in this list of our top resources for mental health professionals.
When the Unthinkable Happens
5 Strategies to Help Children Work Through Tragedy and Traumatic Grief
In the wake of recent tragedies that have directly impacted children, PESI author Andrea Dorn, MSW, LISW-CP, shares strategies for clinicians and caregivers to mindfully approach and work through this difficult topic with children.
12 Books Every Educator Needs on Their Wishlist
Top titles in topics like ADHD, social-emotional skills, trauma, and more
Whether you’re looking for tools, worksheets, and exercises to support students or self-care strategies to support yourself, PESI Publishing has no shortage of titles for educators. Here are 12 of our favorites that we think every teacher should have on their shelves.
Finding Healthy Attachment
Discover how attachment-based relationships provide a foundation for healing trauma
Christina Reese has dedicated her life’s work to helping those with trauma live healthier, happier, and more fulfilling lives. Learn how her newest book, Trauma and Attachment, can guide clients from a place of fear to healthy attachment.
Learning to Transcend Trauma
Dr. Frank Anderson introduces his newest book
Frank Anderson sits down to talk about the culmination of his career and how it manifested into his newest book, Transcending Trauma: Healing Complex PTSD with Internal Family Systems.
Connection & Co-Regulation: Using Self-Awareness to Model Self-Regulation
Learn from a leading voice in the healing of PTSD & complex trauma
As a therapist, developing your own embodied awareness can help you better attune to clients’ somatic patterns of autonomic arousal and allow you to bring co-regulation into therapy.