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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Emotion regulation in therapy: Evidence-based does it
We hear the term emotion regulation all the time. This concept has even become increasingly popular in the mental health...
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How effective are AI therapists? What are human therapists to do?
We have written about initial research on AI therapy chatbots. Recent reports point to a drastic recent increase in AI...
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Why are negative emotions good?
There is discussion lately about how why negative emotions are good. This reframing is helpful for clients and individuals trying...
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How to conduct measurement based care in mental health
Measurement-based care helps us identify how well clients progress during therapy. Our recent article discussed why this evidence-based approach helps....
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Facing love addiction: What it is and therapist training to help clients
Desperately seeking attachment bonds without healthy ways of maintaining those bonds? Research has begun to study these patterns and consider...
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Measurement-based care: How do we know we are helping?
We all feel pretty good when we help the clients we work with. After all, that’s what we want and...
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Narcissistic personality disorder training for therapists
It's interesting that those who experience narcissistic personality disorder often don't show up for therapy. At least not for narcissistic...
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Development of borderline personality disorder and how to help
How does borderline personality disorder develop? We all know the nature vs nurture debate. "This again??" But research continues to...
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Behavioral weight loss therapy and therapist trainings
There are times of year when it seems like everyone is trying to lose weight. New year's resolution are a...
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Client retention strategies for mental health therapists.
Therapists often ask "What client retention strategies help keep clients in therapy longer?" This is often due to desire to...
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Resources and therapy for loneliness
We all feel lonely at times. For some individuals, loneliness can be a much more chronic experience. And it often...
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Stanford plays with AI and mental health genetics
Even the mental health field can't stay out of the AI hype. Our work is very human driven, but it...
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Ozempic for alcohol misuse too??
New weight loss medications like Ozempic and Wegovy are all the rage now. These mediations were originally developed to treat...
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Therapist resources for seasonal affective disorder
The colder months are a time when many individuals experience seasonal affective disorder. Some individuals even experience these symptoms in...
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Motivational Interviewing training: Foundations for change
Creating change can be one of the hardest things for many of us to do. Anything from quitting smoking to...
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New Years resolutions: How to support client behavior change
Many individuals try to enact new years resolutions to make some change(s) in their lives. These changes are difficult to...
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Anniversary and holiday grief support
Experiences of grief can intensify at so many points in life. Especially during particular importance to a individual (e.g., anniversaries)...
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Holiday stress coping strategies for clients
So many of us experience higher levels of stress during the Holidays. That can add a lot for therapy clients...
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Ozempic and eating disorders: Not a miracle drug.
New weight loss medications are all the rage. The weight loss benefits seem too good to be true. Many are...
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Trauma and substance abuse treatment meet: the COPE method.
Treating trauma at the same time as comorbid substance abuse may sound pretty obvious. Both treatments at the same time...
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