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The Hidden Impact of Core Beliefs on Mental Health
Understanding a client’s core beliefs is essential for deciphering their reactions to life’s triggers. Сòòò½ÊÓƵ authors Leslie Sokol, PhD, and Marci Fox, PhD, share free worksheets to use with clients to discover their personality types and core beliefs, so you can help them with their battle of self-worth.
How Becoming a C-IRT Can Enhance Your Practice and Client Outcomes
Are you considering becoming a IRT certified therapist? Learn what a therapist does in Integrated Relationship Therapy, as well as the criteria and benefits of becoming certified today from sex and relationship expert Dr. Tammy Nelson.
Help Clients Develop Awareness of Spiraling Negative Thinking with This Exercise
Free infographic from Tactical Brain Training
Focused attention on stressful thoughts is known as rumination. Gina Rollo White, MA, shares a mindfulness intervention to help your clients stop the spiraling negative thoughts that can lead to feelings of self-doubt, inadequacy, and unworthiness.
Help Clients Create Harmony with This Mindfulness Intervention
Free infographic from Tactical Brain Training
It's time for clients to shift the idea that wellness is only for someone in imminent danger of breaking down. Gina Rollo White, MA, shares a mindfulness intervention that will help clients create harmony between learning to identify the suffering caused by stress and applying a proactive strategy to process and regulate emotions.
Practices to Help Relationships Heal, Grow & Thrive
Alexandra Solomon, PhD, shares her hope for Relational Self-Awareness. Plus, FREE downloadable daily practices from her book Love Every Day.
How to Use CPR for the Amygdala in Your Practice
Use this FREE worksheet to help clients decrease emotional reactivity and stress
Dr. Kate Truitt, author of Healing in Your Hands, explains the four fundamental steps of the CPR for the Amygdala® protocol and how it can help your clients show up for themselves in a loving, proactive way.
Quick Practices for Recovering from Trauma – Anytime, Anywhere!
Free exercises to help clients with traumatic events
International trauma expert Janina Fisher offers up FREE practices from the Living Legacy of Trauma Card Deck to help clients suffering from all forms of trauma.
A Clinician’s Guide to Incorporating Mindfulness into Your Walk and Talk Session
Deepen the interactions between you and your clients outdoors
Jen Udler, author of Walk and Talk Therapy, shares mindfulness exercises you can use with your clients outdoors to bring the calming presence of nature into every therapy session.
Be a Better Therapist with Deliberate Practice
Micro-adjustments, fine-tuning, and feedback are keys to moving toward mastery
While books and trainings can help in a limited fashion, experts who study peak performance conclude that focusing on deep learning is a much better way to develop and master skills.
When Positive Affirmations Become Weapons
Helping clients to challenge negative self-talk with their own values
Positive affirmations are a popular tool for battling negative self-talk, but they can be weaponized and misused. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes acknowledging negative thoughts and focusing on taking action in line with one's values rather than trying to suppress negative thoughts with positive affirmations. By intentionally using positive affirmations, and not weaponizing them, clients can find relief from negative self-talk and pursue their values instead.