To best serve our clients we must be able to master and share practices that promote well-being outside the therapy room. Luckily, neither therapists nor clients need to fly across the world to
Read MoreThe latest research shows that our ability to be aware of our bodies impacts how we process sensations and memories, and heal from traumatic events. But therapists can’t guide clients to calm
Read MoreYoga practices can support you in embracing whatever joys and challenges you may be facing in life. In this workshop, we’ll engage in a loving practice of gentle movement, calming breath work,
Read MoreExpressive arts not only cultivate the healing powers of imagination, they also mobilize the social engagement system through play, improvisation, musicality, movement, and creativity. When integrated into therapy, they can revitalize and energize clients,
Read MoreThe long-term impact of trauma and stress are more than just mental health issues: they’re at the root of almost 80 percent of chronic illnesses in our modern culture. But ancient spiritual
Read MoreYou’ve no doubt heard about Qigong, but how much do you really know about the benefits of this simple practice? Here’s your chance to directly experience its positive effects. Qigong opens up
Read MoreWhen working with trauma cases do you see clients go into flight, fight, or freeze? Do they yell at you, insult you, or leave
Read MoreIf we are what we eat, then beyond the mind-body connection there’s also a food-mind-body connection. This workshop will explore the latest nutritional research to inform psychotherapeutic practice and how diet can
Read MoreIt’s important to honor all of your client’s inner parts in therapy. But accessing them to fully engage in healing work isn’t always easy. In this workshop, we’ll consider
Read MoreDo you have clients who seem to live in their heads and have a hard time sensing inside themselves? Focusing is a process that helps clients speak from their feelings, rather than about
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By separating mind from body and the individual from the social environment, we limit our ability to address the roots of many of the
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Research from brain science and positive psychology shows that activating positive emotional states is the fastest route to instilling hope, stimulating creativity, spurring motivation, and empowering our clients.
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Compassion fatigue and vicarious traumatization are more than occupational hazards for those in the helping professions. Feeling too much of our clients’ emotions
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For millennia, cultures around the world have embraced mind-altering substances to catalyze healing. Although our field has generally resisted the use of such substances, the FDA has recently granted
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Healing is a word derived from the German hailjan, meaning “to make whole.” To truly heal isn’t easy, since it involves reconnecting with polarized and often volatile subpersonalities, or
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The past decade has brought new understanding about the neuroscience behind anxiety and fear. But how many of us can communicate this knowledge to clients in a clear, engaging
Read MoreSome anxious clients have such an overpowering need to know they’re not making a mistake, missing something important, or thinking or feeling something wrong, that they constantly seek
Read MoreFor too many children or teens, talk and even play therapy feels unhelpful at best, and stigmatizing at worst. But when we can effectively introduce mindfulness into our sessions, we empower kids to transform themselves,
Read MoreWith 71 percent of therapists reporting at least one client who’s attempted suicide, helping people teetering on the precarious edge of suicidal ideation is one of the most important and scariest aspects of our work.
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Despite the progressive political attitude prevalent in our field, clinicians of color often still face certain challenges around issues of race in our work with clients, and they struggle to find
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While we all know that success in therapy depends on the therapist–client relationship, building that positive rapport hinges on behaviors many therapists aren’t even aware of.
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It may seem too good to be true, but brain science has given us an empirically proven path to transformational change through the process of memory reconsolidation. This is
Read MoreBombarded by images of personal perfection, relational fulfillment, and seemingly endless life choices, many young people today feel paralyzed by fears of making the wrong decision. From committing to
Read MoreEvery therapist—no matter where they practice or who they see—has heard clients express shame about their body size. Often, this shame gets brushed aside as just an unfortunate byproduct of our
Read MoreCan we truly know the gender of children before they themselves tell us who they are? If so, how should parents be raising children in an era of gender self-determination? For the first time, transgender
Read MoreIf you work with African Americans, Native Americans, holocaust survivors and their descendants, intergenerational poverty, or refugees, then whether you realize it or not, your work is being influenced by the legacies
Read MoreIn an increasingly unpredictable world, kids are more anxious than ever. But for those with ADHD, worry and fear can increase their agitation, distractedness, and impulsivity. Fortunately, there are effective techniques
Read MoreThe work of therapy can’t begin in earnest if the client’s mind is racing with anxiety, fogged by depression, or so tense that the entire body is locked in place. Teaching yoga skills
Read MoreTwenty-five years after the publication of Pipher’s groundbreaking book Reviving Ophelia, the evidence suggests that many adolescent girls continue to struggle not just because of dysfunctional families, but because
Read MoreWith all the hundreds of models and interventions practitioners use and the vast range of disorders they treat, attachment science offers therapists a coherent framework for understanding clients’ problems and leading them
Read MoreHelping clients develop strategies for coping with both everyday disappointments and extraordinary disaster is at the heart of the therapeutic process, regardless of your clinical approach. In this workshop,
Read MoreTherapists often get shaken and lose confidence in their approach when a client’s trauma response edges into seemingly uncontrollable extremes of rage, panic, or suicidal desperation. This workshop provides an essential road
Read MoreClients whose spouses need constant care because of a life-changing chronic illness, such as multiple sclerosis, dementia, or Parkinson’s disease, can feel that deciding to stay in or leave
Read MoreToo often our focus as therapists is on our client’s verbal narrative. What happened? Where? When? We tend to neglect another powerful storyteller: the client’s body. In fact, the body records our emotional
Read MoreChronically suicidal clients present a special kind of stress for therapists: there’s not only the emotional stress of working with their pain, but the additional burden of risk, responsibility, and anxiety. When should we
Read MoreThe very nature of depression often thwarts efforts to treat it. After all, it’s difficult to change when you have no energy, no hope, and no capacity to concentrate. How can we challenge
Read MoreAlmost everything we learned about obsessive compulsive disorder prior to 2000 was just plain wrong: it’s not rare, obvious, hard to treat, or a manifestation of deep underlying conflict. We now
Read MoreWith so many controversies and contradictory research about the effectiveness of psychopharmacological interventions, it’s often hard to know how to best work with your clients around the issue of meds. How can you best
Read MoreOver the course of 50 years, the brilliant family therapy pioneer Virginia Satir developed powerful therapeutic techniques to help people externalize unconscious inner processes and experience emotional and spiritual healing. In
Read MoreMastering Solution-Focused Brief Therapy requires practitioners to learn the deceptively simple process of asking targeted questions in session that thwart the all too common temptation for both therapist and client to focus on
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