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Great article from Elements Behavioral Health located here

At one time or another, everyone experience some form of anxiety; in the United States alone, doctors write over 80 million prescriptions for anti-anxiety drugs each year. While our understanding of the various anxiety disorders has increased substantially,...

FREE 94 page “DRUGS OF ABUSE - DEA Resource Guide 2017 Edition”   https://www.dea.gov/pr/multimedia-library/publications/drug_of_abuse.pdf

Helping Clients Face Difficult Thoughts & Feelings Many clients suffer for years because they have developed so many ways to avoid their problems rather than face them.  They may call this "coping" with a problem, but in fact their elaborate strategies typically...

Motivating Your Clients to Change The therapeutic process is hard work and your clients come to therapy with the expectation that changing will be easier thanks to your help.  But how are you as a therapist able to know what motivates your clients? This worksheet,...

Every therapist has at least one client who presents an ongoing treatment challenge. They may be unmotivated, they may be resistant to therapy, they may even be belligerent and argumentative. Therapy assignments can really make a difference in your work with these...

Free Download:  There's Nothing Small About Small Talk This worksheet is designed to help people with social anxiety understand the basic elements of conversation. It challenges them to find situations to practice their conversational skills and includes a form to...

This book is a collection of Virginia’s sayings—or as I prefer to call them, her “secrets.” Virginia discovered many of the universal principles of how and why people behave the way they do, and she shared these during her trainings. Virginia was famous for...