Self-harm and self-injury come when an individual harms themselves physically. Nonsuicidal self-injury is not intended to lead to suicide, but...
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Eating disorders: Important factors and how to help
Eating disorders are extremely difficult for individuals to experience. And difficult for therapists to help with! They affect both mental...
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Break-ups are brutal: How to help clients cope with loss.
All loss is difficult. And it can be particularly hard for those struggling with mental health difficulties. The mental health...
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Finding love: How therapists help clients when it’s so hard
Dating and finding love was never an easy thing. These days, it can be even harder and more discouraging for...
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Best treatment for panic attacks: Therapist resources and training
Look out! IT’S PANIC!!! Many clients experience it at different times. So what do therapists do to help, especially when...
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Weight loss surgery or Ozempic? What helps clients more?
Many clients have struggled for years with successful long-term weight loss. GLP-1 medications like Ozempic are seen as a miracle...
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Self-forgiveness in therapy: How to help.
Forgiveness and self-forgiveness happens in response to many types of adversity. Self-forgiveness is particularly difficult for many who experience increased...
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How to build gratitude in therapy to cope with the Holidays.
The Holidays can be a difficult time for people: Loneliness. Comparing one's life-situation to the apparent "awesome and happy" lives...
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Social Skills Training (SST): Benefits and continuing ed.
We have probably all seen times when clients express difficulties with social interactions. Sometimes this can be due to things...
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Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) training: Where to find it.
A couple things may come to mind when we hear about interpersonal therapy (IPT) for depression. Like, "it’s just therapy...
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How to make therapy more effective: Memory and habit formation
Mental health professionals like to think we do effective work with clients. We like to think we are badasses for...
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Harm reduction for addiction: Not just ensuring safety
Harm reduction is an evidence-based, if controversial, approach to substance use difficulties. Many individuals as well as some clinicians believe...
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Somatic Experiencing for trauma: Concepts and efficacy
Body-oriented approaches for treating post-traumatic symptoms, such as Somatic Experiencing®, are increasing in popularity. But what does the research say...
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Forgiveness for clients: Easier said but possible.
Forgiveness has been around forever. Multiple religions promote forgiveness as a key action when the world gets difficult. And for...
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ACT foundations and therapist training
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is therapy approach that helps clients learn new ways of approaching difficult experiences. The idea...
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Scaffolding in therapy: Not just for schools or parents
Ahhh scaffolding…. You may see it in many places. From developmental psych textbooks to business management trainings. But therapists can...
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Valid personality tests: Not all tests are created equal
We’ve described how some personality tests are either problematic or just not all that accurate or helpful. So which tests...
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Complicated grief therapy training and research: What to know
There have been a lot of new, exciting advances in our understanding and treatment of complicated grief (aka prolonged grief)....
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Does somatic breathwork work? Yeses, noes, and how to help
Breathwork became an extremely popular approach to mental health in recent years. It is sometimes used as a therapist resource...
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Depression updates: A guide to new directions for an old difficulty
It seems like wherever you look these days, you don't hear many clinicians say "I treat depression" or "I'm a...
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Department of Education mental health cuts
The Department of Education announced that it will cut funding for mental health services provided to qualifying school districts across...
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Late-stage therapy skills: A guide as clients get better
Effective therapy helps individuals learn evidence-based strategies for how to actively improve certain aspects of their lives. But what do...
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What is temperament, really? More than just disposition
We often hear the term "temperament" thrown around to mean any type of emotional disposition or affective response. In humans...
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How maternal stress and depression impacts child development
People often refer to depression as "passed on." Research does show a greater genetic risk of experiencing depression when either...
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Evidence-based social anxiety training for therapists
Social anxiety is extremely common. Some estimates put it at or among the top of the list of mental health...
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Is the Enneagram reliable? What the evidence says
When it comes to psychological tests, they need to be reliable in order to be accurate. We again use reliability...
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Political anxiety and stress: How do therapists help?
Political stress often gets discussed during election season. However, US presidential administration policies in 2025 continues to create great uncertainty...
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Conversion therapy case reaches Supreme Court
The US Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to a lower court ruling accepting the State of Colorado's ability...
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