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...

  "I'm not worthy or good enough for love, belonging, or connection. I'm unlovable. I don't belong." That's the voice of shame, the universal emotion we're afraid to talk about. Yet clinicians agree that shame underpins today's most devastating clinical...

June Is LGBT Pride Month Research tells us that members of the LGBT community are at greater risk for substance use and mental health issues than the rest of the population. In honor of Pride Month, learn more about treating and supporting those suffering from...

This is a great FREE 79 page therapy manual you can download in PDF format by going to http://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/docs/Keeping-Cool.pdf    It is called Getting Along & Keeping your Cool: A Group Program for Aggression Control, This is in Pdf format and may...

Partners in Play is an invitation to everyone who spends time with pre-school children–parents, nursery school and day care teachers, babysitters, grandparents–to increase the pleasure and value of the children's play by fostering imagination and fantasy....

The Victim Survival Guide from the SC Victim Assistance Network provides answers to basic questions about legal processes, terms, and conditions that affect a victim after a crime has occurred. Available in English and Spanish.  Download from...