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Client-Centered Treatment Approaches for Better Outcomes
Reading Time: 8 minutes Client-centered treatment approaches have been shown to increase retention and reduce relapse. Here is a guide on using client-centered treatment techniques in your practice.
Online Help for Depression: A Guide to Treatment and Support
Did you know that approximately 280 million people worldwide struggle with depression, according to the World Health Organization? ...
Clustering: Average of The 5’s Dramatic Impact on Our Lives
What is Clustering? Brains are into networking just like their humans are. Maybe you’ve heard that ...
Finding Balance in The New Year
(Updated) I thought I would revise a prior blog as I look for creating a place ...
New Year, New Rates? Strategies for Setting and Adjusting Your Rates as a Therapist
Setting your rates as a therapist is a bit of a balancing act. You want to provide ...
3rd of Top 5 Material Global Crisis Risks for 2024: Societal and Political Polarization
What Does Material Global Crisis Mean? Today someone told me that he thought he needed to ...
Nurturing Resilience: Setting Attainable New Year’s Intentions
As the New Year unfolds, many are drawn to the tradition of setting intentions and goals ...
Pros and Cons of Having a Niche as a Therapist
Ask a room of therapists whether it’s better to generalize or find a niche, and you will ...
Walking Hand in Hand: How to Care for Your Partner As They Cope With Depression
We always want to see our partners be at their absolute best. Watching them thrive, succeed, ...
Tip #1 To Master Intrusive Thoughts: Think About Elephants
What are Intrusive Thoughts? I heard that there was a shortage of social workers in Israel, ...
#MentalHealth: How Therapist Influencers are Making an Impact Via Social Media
Prior to September 2021, Jeff Guenther was a therapist like any other. He had a private practice ...
The Synergy of Holistic Wellness and Traditional Mental Health Therapy
In recent years, there has been an increasing recognition of the importance of holistic wellness in ...
Can Healthy Balance Be Found Within Our Hustle Culture Society?
Living in one of the largest metropolitan cities in the United States, the citizens of Phoenix ...
1 Great Success Tool: Your Anger
Why Not Anger? I once left a school I otherwise loved because they thought and taught ...
Differentiate Yourself from the Pack With An Online Presence
Imagine being a patient who has made the difficult and courageous decision to start therapy. You open ...
7 Ways Technology Can Improve Patient Outcomes
How would you feel if your sessions with patients were recorded, your words and exchanges then analyzed ...
2 Tips For Making and Breaking Promises Well
What is a Promise? I just made a promise not to say anything else about something ...
Self Care for Stress Reduction
Have you thought about the amount of time you spend helping others rather than yourself? Helping ...
Feelings Explored: A Woman’s Roadmap to Emotional Resilience
Your feelings map is in your hands. Feelings weave through every facet of our lives. However, ...
How To Improve Your Patient Experience for Better Outcomes
The correlation between patient experience and clinical outcomes is well-documented in medical settings. Research has shown that ...
The Silent Battle: Exploring the Impact of War Images and Engagement on Mental Health
War, in all its brutality and chaos, has been an ever-present facet of human history. Whether ...
1 Way on What to Say in Terribly Tender Times
What To Say in Terribly Tender Times? The past week has been so hard for so ...
Friendship and Recovery
Friendship plays an important part of continued eating disorder recovery. Isolation can be familiar and life ...
Trauma in watching Israel/Hamas war videos
I saw the trauma effect of war videos in my living room this week. A young ...
Want Growth? Get Automated
A metaphor in child psychology compares children to dandelions and orchids. Dandelions can thrive in almost ...
Self-Disclosure with Psychotherapy Clients…Good Idea or Not?
A few things were heavily emphasized in my graduate program in my quest to becoming a ...
Digital Minimalism: A Pathway to Improved Mental Health and Mindfulness
In an age where screens dominate every corner of our lives, where every beep and buzz ...
The Art of the Referral: Getting Every Patient the Care They Need, Promptly
How to empty your waitlist while growing your business. Waitlists are a terrible client experience). Imagine showing ...
Creating a Parenting Plan
In a perfect world, marriages would never dissolve. But divorce is a reality and one that ...
The Silent Crisis: The Mental Health Impact of Homelessness on Society
Homelessness is a pervasive issue plagues societies worldwide, transcending borders, socioeconomic statuses, and races. While homelessness ...
Putting Social Media to Work for Your Practice
Ah, social media! It seems people either love it, hate it, or a mix of both. ...
1 Powerful Way to Supercharge Your Self-Improvement Month: Make A New Habit!
Why Should You Make A New Habit? Here’s why: September is Self-Improvement Month, and making new ...
Legal Pitfalls for Therapists
In the Apple TV series Shrinking, Jimmy Laird is a psychologist who has recently lost his ...
Do “trigger warnings” work?
You’re sitting at your computer. You’ve been told you’ll be participating in an online experiment, designed ...
Understanding Trauma Responses: Why Proper Diagnosis Matters
Life can sometimes throw us into storms we never anticipated. When we encounter traumatic events, our ...
Money Matters for Mental Health Practitioners
Owning and operating a private practice provides therapists with autonomy and flexibility. But running a business ...
How Your Boss Can Impact Your Mental Health
My mental health was suffering because of a coworker with a position of power who made ...
Adding a Virtual Assistant to Your Therapy Practice
As the demand for mental health services continues to rise, many therapists are struggling to juggle ...
Language, Racism and Speciesism-Time for New Words and Concepts “
Racism, Sexism-and all the “isms” that corrode our soul have roots and origins in Speciesism, ...
Embracing Authenticity and Challenging Norms: Greta Gerwig’s Barbie Movie and Its Emotional Impact
Introduction: In a world that often emphasizes superficiality and places unrealistic expectations on individuals, Greta Gerwig's ...
98% of Conversations Are Too Much Talk
Why We Talk? Recently I lost a friend. Actually, he was he was a friend of a ...
5 Eating Disordered Behaviors That Are Normalized in Our Society
Keto, Paleo, Weight-Watchers, Whole 30, Noom... There is no question that dieting is big business in ...
Mindfulness Unveiled: Illuminating the Path to Enhanced Mental Well-being
In the whirlwind of our modern lives, where multitasking has become a virtue and time races ...
A mindful approach to your phone
Like most people, my relationship with my iPhone is, shall we say, an evolving situation. I’m ...
Health At Every Size (HAES): The Antidote to Weight Stigma?
Linda* battled her body for years. Growing up in the 1980s during the height of diet ...
When to Worry: Recognizing Signs of Trauma in Your Loved Ones
Over the past several years, there have been numerous traumatic events all across the country. From ...
What is a trauma response?
I want to discuss the impact of trauma on children. A trauma response is a reactive ...
The ABC’s of Therapy: A Primer on Treatment Types
The field of psychology has a penchant for acronyms. CBT, DBT, EFT, EMDR… It can be ...
Difficulties of Being Mixed Race in America
Mixed race individuals may face micro-aggressions such as being asked to "choose" a racial identity, being ...
