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Understanding the Complex Relationship Between Trauma and Narcissistic Abuse
Renowned experts Dr. Ramani Durvasula and Dr. Kate Truitt share the latest in neuroscience to pinpoint healing opportunities for your clients and share steps you can use to help clients recover from trauma and build a path toward self-empowerment, and so much more.
The Difference Between Baby Blues vs Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorder
Symptoms of baby blues and postpartum depression and anxiety look and feel the same, but they are different in a few important ways. Use this free infographic to help you and your clients understand the difference and when to be further evaluated.
Understanding the Four Phases of Integrated Attachment Family Therapy (IAFT)
Integrated Attachment Family Therapy (IAFT) offers a powerful mental health intervention that can help families to heal. IAFT expert Dafna Lender walks you through the IAFT phases, providing therapeutic insight and free worksheets to help families achieve meaningful and lasting change.
Help Parents Connect and Redirect with their Child During Tough Moments
Free worksheets from The Whole-Brain Child Workbook
Connecting with children during difficult moments helps them feel that that they're being heard and their feelings are not being invalidated. Use these free worksheets to learn about the Connect and Redirect strategy from bestselling authors Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson.
Help Clients Discover What’s Bringing Them to Therapy with This Exercise
Free worksheet from Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: The Workbook
What's bringing your client to the therapy room? Best-selling author Lori Gottlieb reflects on the work clients do in therapy and provides an exercise to help clients unearth what's bringing them to session.
Beyond Fixes or Feelings: Coaching Your Couples to Do Both
Relationship expert Elizabeth Earnshaw guides you through the roles of the "Emotion Coach" and the "Solution Coach" — one values empathy, fostering understanding of emotions for relationship growth, while the other prioritizes problem-solving. By embracing these differences, couples can navigate conflicts more effectively.
Recognizing and Working with Client Dysregulation: Quick Tips for Therapists
As a therapist, it's crucial for you to be aware of your clients' autonomic states at any given moment during session. Annie Chen, LMFT, shares a tool designed to simplify the complexity of our nervous system’s responses, providing clients and therapists with a clear roadmap for understanding dysregulation.
Weight, Food, and Shame in the Age of Ozempic
Treating clients who are considering weight loss drugs involves understanding their lived experiences with food and weight, counteracting stigma, and acknowledging the failures of diet culture. Informed consent and compassion are vital in navigating this complex issue.
Demystifying Dysregulation: Navigating Your Autonomic States
Recognizing the autonomic nervous system (ANS) states enhances emotional intelligence, improves relationships, and helps manage stress effectively. Annie Chen, LMFT, shares how to tune into your autonomic states, reset your body to calm, improve communication, and rediscover yourself.
Help Clients Heal their Relationship with Food and Body Shame
Free worksheet to help clients understand the how the diet cycle affects their mental health
Experts Judith Matz, LCSW, ACSW, Amy Pershing, LMSW, ACSW, CCTP-II and Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS, explain how the to support your clients in dieting for weight loss, body shame and mental health through trauma-informed strategies.