Blogs and Free Resources
Here at °ÅÀÖÊÓƵ, our mission is to provide professionals like you with FREE practical and valuable tools, strategies,
and resources to assist with the great work you do. Find expert tips, helpful worksheets, demonstration videos, CE, news,
and more here. Happy learning!
Blueprint for Private Practice Success
Creating specific clinical programs withinyour business to improve the value of your practice
If you are entering or already in private practice, your blueprint for success not only consists of your clinical training, it needs to include a solid plan for creating, growing and sustaining your business. The Program Goals/Timeline Template (available as a FREE download) is your blueprint to creating specific clinical programs within your business that promote your strengths, help your target population, and improve the overall value of your practice.
S.T.O.P.: An MBSR Practice for Developing Awareness
One of the things we practice in MBSR is becoming aware of the triggers of dissatisfaction and suffering. A wonderful way to maintain a greater sense of well-being is the ability to notice when things get a little off kilter and we start to experience unhappiness. It is in this moment that we can use the method of S.T.O.P. to allow ourselves to listen with open hearts and minds and commit to being freer and happier.
Trauma Survivors and Self-Care
11 Practices to Promote Wellbeing
How can you help your clients work on increasing acts of self-care? Keeping in mind that self-care can manifest in different ways, consider suggesting these 11 practices as "homework assignments" to promote wellbeing...
Breath of Joy
A Yoga Practice for Children with ADHD
Sometimes children with ADHD just can't stop moving...Here's a quick and enjoyable strategy to help restore attention and focus.
Lizard Brain: How it impacts EVERY trauma treatment plan
...and what you can do about it
When a child with behavior challenges enters our office, we instantly go into teach mode to tell them how to change their behaviors. Why? Because we don't know what else to do.
But the child's behavior doesn't improve. It's not because they're willful, or bad, or even because they don't care. It's because the lasting impacts of trauma have the children in your practice stuck in "lizard brain." In this short video, I explain why lizard brain impacts every trauma treatment plan you create...
Workshop: Yoga and Mindfulness in the Classroom
Practical applications from a °ÅÀÖÊÓƵ seminar
Teresa Sadowski has been a Speech Language Pathologist for 27 years. Join Teresa as she reviews the °ÅÀÖÊÓƵ seminar "Yoga and Mindfulness in the Classroom: Tools to improve self-regulation, learning and classroom climate" and discusses how the tools and strategies she learned can be applied to practice.
Can You Get a Certification in Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)?
The Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS) notes that there are many ways professionals can learn or strengthen ACT skills, including: books, peer consultation groups, formal academic training, participation in a chapter or SIG, the ACBS Annual World Conference, and therapy DVDs or online courses featuring ACT Peer-Reviewed trainers.
Self-Compassion for Teens
A sensory activity worksheet
Self-compassion for teens reduces suffering and stress through mindful awareness, self-kindness, interconnectedness, as well as the willingness to take action to relieve suffering.
Melt the Grumpy
A Self-Regulation Activity
"Melt the Grumpy" is a somatic activity to help shift your emotional state with physical movement, breathing and imagery.
The Parts of a Task Game
A Thinking Activity for Better Executive Function
While there are many age-appropriate ways to help children enhance components of executive function and thinking skills, The Parts of a Task Game may be one of my favorite activities. Watch my short video and download the free worksheet in my blog. -Lynne Kenney, Psy.D