Helping Yourself and Your Clients Practice Self-Care (ideas and free worksheet)
Lisa Weed Phifer, DEd, NCSP, Laura K. Sibbald M.A., CCC-SLP
If you’ve been helping clients adapt to their new schedules and integrate healthy ways to manage daily stress, you know how important it is for all of us to make time to support our own mental health. Self-care is a majority priority right now so that we can make our feelings, and responses to stress more manageable. Here are some ideas and a free worksheet from the Trauma-Informed Social-Emotional Toolbox for Children & Adolescents—but also works for adults!
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Help is here...
Sharon Saline, PsyD
Tired of ‘nagging’ without success? Dr. SharonSaline provides tips for disarming pushback and negativity.
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How you can motivate your clients to take the first steps toward a full & active life
Margaret Wehrenberg, PsyD
For people with depression, daily activities like showering, picking up the house and even going outside, can seem monumental. But accomplishing tasks and being active are crucial for your clients’ wellbeing. Help them get moving again with these simple tips.
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Discover tools and assessments to help determine if your CBT practice is “driftingâ€
John Ludgate, Ph.D.
John Ludgate, Ph.D. shares his Cognitive Therapy Rating Scale to help therapists check-in on their own implementation of CBT and set goals for themselves for upcoming sessions.
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How COVID-19 is affecting our parts.
Richard Schwartz, Ph.D.
Dr. Richard Schwartz, founder of IFS, speaks on how COVID-19 is a triggering situation that has an array of effects on all of our parts and how this is a wakeup call not just for us personally, but also for the planet, countries, and corporations.
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Discover how yoga can discharge memories stored in the nervous system of trauma survivors
Irina Diyankova, Ph.D., RYT-200
Irina Diyankova, PhD, RYT-200 reveals how yoga stimulates both top-down and bottom-up regulation, which can help trauma survivors reset their nervous systems back to baseline.
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Develop habits that will help your young clients succeed in a digital generation
Aubrey Schmalle, OTR/L, SIPT
The increased use of screens is impacting social skills, human interaction, and compromising neurosensory development. That’s why Aubrey Schmalle, OTR/L, SIPT wants to help you develop habits that will help your young clients succeed in a digital world.
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Are the children in your life noticing your increasing tension?
Jennifer Cohen Harper, MA, E-RYT, RCYT
While we can’t eliminate the transmission of our own anxiety to the children in our lives, we can mitigate the impact in some significant ways. Here’s how.
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Discover how the ancient practice of yoga fits in perfectly with trauma treatment
Debra Premashakti Alvis, PhD
Debra Premashakti Alvis, PhD provides a short summary of yoga philosophy and reveals why it’s a fantastic complementary therapy for trauma survivors.
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Watch the Balloon Metaphor Demonstration
Jennifer Lefebre, PSY.D., RPT-S
We keep holding onto the feelings and eventually we're going to pop. Instead, let's let it out little by little.
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