Featured technique from Liana Lowenstein's Newsletter: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Add to your repertoire of creative therapeutic interventions. Check out this month's featured technique on Linda Lowenstein's website: Anger Bag by Jeanette Yoffe

Addressing The Issue of Infidelity  Whether you treat individuals or couples, when the issue of infidelity comes up in therapy it's hard for your clients to talk about anything else. The main thing your clients want to know is whether or not their marriage or...

From: PESI CE [pesi@pesieducation.com] Getting a child with oppositional, defiant or disruptive behavior to follow directions can be a full time job. If you're like most of us, your first instinct to correct a child's behavior is to scold them — or just do it...

Fees in Therapy: Dispelling Myths About Fees Most therapists are more comfortable discussing their client's sex life than their investment portfolio, mortgage or credit card debt.  Money and fees present some of the more complex issues facing therapists and clients,...

HUMAN TRAFFICKING VIDEO SERIES The Office for Victims of Crime has released the "Faces of Human Trafficking," a nine-part video series to help service providers, law enforcement, prosecutors, and communities raise awareness of human trafficking. The “Faces of Human...

Do you have a client so chaotic in his or her presentation, that you literally don't know where to start? With so many pressing problems, how do you prioritize? I call this phenomenon therapy whack-a-mole — you spend each session taking care of the biggest problems...

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Free report that breaks down the differences between how traumatic memory and everyday memory are stored in the brain - and why that’s crucial in the treatment of trauma: The Neuroscience of Traumatic Memory It’s with Bessel van der Kolk, MD.  Provided by: The...

In this brief video clip, Martha Straus, author of No-Talk Therapy for Children and Adolescents, recalls an instance in which she used co-regulation with a young boy who was put in isolation after throwing a tantrum at school. Watch the video now »

Helping Clients Manage Their Moods  One of the basic tenets of Cognitive Behavior Therapy is that we can teach clients to control their emotions, rather than have their emotions control them. There are many ways to teach people to "change the channel" on their moods,...