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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Featured Research Findings
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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Research Findings
Does manifesting work?
"Put it out into the universe and it will come true." "If you believe it, it will manifest into existence."...
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Nature AND nurture?
So are we completely a product of our environment or is this stuff all just preset by genetics? This age-old...
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Adult vs. Adolescent Eating Disorders
Eating disorders are a complex mental condition that may necessitate different treatment based on life stage and medical needs. Assessing...
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How to choose inpatient care for eating disorders
Eating disorders come with high physical and emotional risk to the client. There’s also high potential for a lot of...
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Treatment of trauma and shame
So trauma isn't all just based on fear?? Shame has been increasingly recognized as a key component of PTSD reactions...
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CBT for insomnia (CBTi): Training, research, and resources
Complaints about sleep and insomnia are something we hear from clients all the time. There are medical reasons for some...
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Depression in Children
A study published in JAMA Pediatrics found that depression diagnoses increased by 27% for children ages three to seventeen between...
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Suppression does not lead to emotional rebound.
"If you hold those emotions in they will just explode later." "Emotions I hold in come back stronger later." "Pent...
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Using VR for mental health treatment
VR for mental health treatment?? Wait.... Does that really work? Researchers have examined virtual reality (VR) for treating mental health...
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Why do we have emotions?: An influential theory
Why do we have emotions? Why do we seem to emote differently than other animals? How do other processes like...
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Motivational Interviewing in Substance Use Treatment
Motivational interviewing helps a wide range of clients who walk through our doors to move from a state of ambivalence...
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Are the stages of grief real?
Most all clinicians and researchers agree that there is no "right" or "wrong" way to grieve. Kubler-Ross' 5-stage grief model...
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Cognitive processing therapy (CPT) for PTSD
Cognitive processing therapy (CPT) for PTSD was initially developed in the early 1990s for victims of sexual assault. Patricia Resick...
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Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), simplified
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS, or rTMS when used repeatedly) is a modern treatment for a number of psychological and neurological...
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Tele-health Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOPs)?
Mental health sometimes requires many types of support - from intensive outpatient programs (IOPs) to support groups to monthly "tune...
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Suicide risk training: How to approach, assess, and help clients
Suicide is the most fatal and urgent topic in all of mental health. And it's no wonder licensing jurisdictions require...
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One T for trauma?
Some have started to use the terms "Big T" vs "little t" to describe traumatic stress reactions like PTSD vs...
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Attentional bias: A big culprit
Many of us have a tendency to focus more on negative experiences than positive or neutral ones. Researchers have consistently...
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Good vs bad: Bad is stronger than good
When it comes good vs bad, we are not saying that negative experiences are "better" or that evil wins over...
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“I think I have early-onset Alzheimer’s.”
"I can't remember anything these days! I must have early-onset Alzheimer's...." It is not uncommon to hear clients wonder whether...
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