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Age-Related Memory Loss: Essential Knowledge and Tools for Therapists, Ep. 207
Best practices for navigating age-related memory loss when it presents in mental health care
FREE CE Course: Shaping a Secure Sense of Self Using EFIT, Ep. 206
Dr. Sue Johnson explains how Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy evokes, contains, and uses emotion in specific empirically-supported ways to help individual clients grow and thrive. Interview with
Assessing and Addressing Intimate Partner Violence, Legally and Ethically, Ep. 205
A meaningful overview of the prevalence of intimate partner violence within couples/families and describes strategies for handling these situations
Mastering the Art of Online Group Therapy, Ep. 204
Strategies for structuring group sessions, fostering engagement, and managing group dynamics; with discussion about law and ethics
Conditioned Emotional Suppression: The Emotional Experiences of the Marginalized, Ep. 203
How the emotional experience of marginalized populations differs drastically from those who have more emotional privilege
Looking Out for Long COVID & Similar Illnesses in Clients: Symptoms, Research, and Developing Treatments, Ep. 202
Recognizing key signs of Long COVID and similar conditions to aid in referral and management
The Little-Known Bully on the Block: Eating Disorders and the Impact of Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, Ep. 201
Learn about the co-occuring disorder experienced by 20% of people with eating disorders like anorexia
Painful Sex & Penetration: A Clinical Overview of Vaginismus for Mental Health Professionals, Ep. 200
Clinical approaches for vaginismus, a condition characterized by involuntary muscle contractions that make vaginal penetration painful or impossible
Correcting Myths about Suicidal Ideation and Self-Injurious Behaviors and Providing Responsive Treatment, Ep. 199
How to effectively manage a disclosure of suicidal ideation or urges to self-harm, as well as how to assess risk immediately and in subsequent sessions
Adult Siblings as a Hidden Resource in Therapy, Ep. 198
Helpful framework for integrating siblings in individual and couple therapy