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Tools
101 – A Day for Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
104 – The Gift of Presence Creating a Sustainable Mindfulness Practice Plan for Women
The biggest challenge to deriving benefit from a mindfulness practice is doing it every day, which requires breaking the entrenched habits that take …
107 – Therapy as a Performing Art Acting Insights and Techniques for Clinicians
All therapists are performers. No matter what our theoretical orientations, clients are more influenced by us than our methods. Like the actor, the …
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109 – Calming Practices for Anxious Times Yoga in the Therapy Room
Spend a day engaging in soothing yoga practices to both support you in your day-to-day work and share with clients to enhance their own self-care and …
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112 – Embodiment, Rhythm, Awareness, Play A Day to Experience Attuned Self-Awareness
The latest research shows that our ability to be aware of our bodies impacts how we process sensations and memories, and heal from traumatic events. …
113 – The Drama Therapy Experience Embodying The Change You Want To Be In The World
Drama Therapy is an active and experiential form of embodied psychotherapy that’s well suited to working with individuals, groups, and communities …
114 – The Embodied Therapist The Keys to Transforming Habitual Patterns
Expand your capacity to express yourself, even while sitting, by using a unique approach that combines Somatic Experiencing with the Alexander …
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115 – Guilt, Shame, and the Traumatized Client Finding Release from Toxic Emotions
Although trauma can affect clients’ inner lives in countless ways, most survivors grapple with deep-seated feelings of guilt and shame. Until these …
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117 – Hope for Treatment-Resistant Depression A Sensorimotor Approach to Change
The 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 …
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118 – Healing Our Relationship with Food An IFS Approach
We’re a culture preoccupied with dieting and devoted to maintaining unrealistic ideals of how we should look. Our confusion and shame about our weight …
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122 – Family Constellations An Intergenerational Approach to Healing Trauma
Clients’ multigenerational family histories often contain overlooked traumas that have had a deep impact on their emotional lives. Family …
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124 – Healing Cultural Trauma with IFS A Culturally Sensitive Approach
Despite an increased willingness in our profession to discuss issues of diversity, including race, sexuality, gender, class, etc., we still have a …
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201/301 – The Science of Showing Up Helping Parents Help Their Kids
Ever wondered what the science of parenting reveals about the best way to help children thrive? Attachment research reveals that it’s not what …
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202/302 – Polyvagal Theory in Action Harnessing the Healing Potential of the Autonomic Nervous System
At its most basic level, human communication is one nervous system responding to another, searching for signals that it’s safe to connect and flooding …
205/305 – Listening to Millennials Therapeutic Understanding across the Generational Divide
If you came of age before social media and smartphones were ubiquitous, before polar icecaps started melting, and before going to college resulted in …
206/306 – Brave-Hearted Therapy Courage as a Clinical Virtue
Courage may be the least recognized quality of a good therapist. But many of our finest hours were times when we went out on a limb with an …
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209/309 – IFS in Action Leading Clients to Self-Leadership
Healing is a word derived from the German hailjan, meaning “to make whole.” To truly heal isn’t easy, since it involves reconnecting with …
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210/310 – How to Build Unshakable Clinical Confidence The Key to Winning Your Clients’ Trust
At times even the most talented therapists may question their clinical effectiveness. For many, the response is to sign up for more training, but …
211/311 – Working with Traumatized Vets and First Responders A Mind-Body Approach
The trauma that comes from combat and from responding to crimes and fires is now universally acknowledged. However, many vets and first responders …
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212/312 – Discovering the Structure of Awakening An Introduction to Wholeness Work
In eastern spirituality, the self is usually considered an illusion and enlightenment is seen as a process of letting go of the ego. But what do these …
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