Stretch Away Pent-Up Stress
April 13, 2021
By Jennifer Wolkin, PhD When we’re stressed, we tend to clench our bodies and unintentionally hold in that tension, which, in turn, makes us feel more stressed—creating a vicious cycle…. READ MORE
Quick Tips For Therapists
How to Survive Teletherapy Burnout—and Even Thrive!
March 30, 2021
By Joe Oliver, PhD, and Helena Colodro-Sola, MSc, CPsychol Research shows that nearly half of all therapists report moderate to high levels of burnout. Throw in a global pandemic (which… READ MORE
How to Use Imagery to Help Your Clients Identify Their Underlying Thoughts
February 23, 2021
By Nina Josefowitz, PhD Identifying clients’ thoughts that underlie their feelings and behavior is key to cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Often it goes smoothly. However, sometimes clients struggle to identify their… READ MORE
How to Help Kids Persist When They Want to Quit
February 9, 2021
By Elisa Nebolsine, LCSW Working with kids is always interesting, and often challenging. That’s part of the fun. One of the common struggles in child therapy is helping kids to understand that… READ MORE
Don’t Forget about Mental Rituals in Your OCD Assessments
January 26, 2021
By Jon Hershfield, MFT Clients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) often fail to recognize the role mental rituals play in maintaining their symptoms. Because they may not already be educated about the existence of… READ MORE
A Short, Simple Mantra to Clarify Acceptance
January 12, 2021
By Joel Minden, PhD When difficult thoughts, feelings, and experiences emerge, clients who often turn to worry and rumination find acceptance-based strategies to be attractive and useful, particularly if they’re able to get… READ MORE
How to Deal with Self-Critical Thoughts to Promote Self-Acceptance (Part 3)
December 22, 2020
By Joe Oliver, PhD, and Richard Bennett, ClinPsyD Parts One and Two of this Quick Tips series outlined ways to create some distance between clients and their self-critical thoughts by employing a hierarchical distinction between the… READ MORE
How to Deal with Self-Critical Thoughts to Promote Self-Acceptance (Part 2)
December 8, 2020
By Joe Oliver, PhD, and Richard Bennett, ClinPsyD When trying to loosen the attachment between a client and their self-critical thoughts, it can help to build a hierarchical distinction in addition to the… READ MORE
How to Deal with Self-Critical Thoughts to Promote Self-Acceptance (Part 1)
November 24, 2020
By By Joe Oliver, PhD, and Richard Bennett, ClinPsyD Lots of people say that we should be careful with what we do with the information we receive on a daily basis. ‘Don’t… READ MORE
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