Blogs and Free Resources
Here at ºÚÁÏÍø, 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!
The Skill of Savoring: A Polyvagal Tool for Ventral Vagal Regulation
Video demonstration from Deb Dana, LCSW
Clients stuck in cycles of anxiety, fear, and distress need simple, but effective inner guidance to find their way back to safety, connection, and hope. Deb Dana, LCSW, shares a 20-30 second exercise that clients can use to more deeply savor their positive experiences.
An Antidote to Burnout: Getting Clients Past Toxic Productivity
Discover three interventions to help clients identify and overcome burnout
Clients who struggle with toxic productivity often feel as though nothing they do is enough, setting the stage for burnout. ºÚÁÏÍø author Israa Nasir, MHC, shares three proven interventions therapists can use to help clients slow down, practice self-compassion, and develop a more positive relationship with their workload.
Preventing Teen Suicide: Crisis Safety Planning with Young Clients
Life-saving strategies & free CE
The rate of suicide in young people is on the rise. Get the strategies you need to save lives with this free CE seminar led by Tony Sheppard, PsyD, CGP, FAGPA.
National Anxiety & Depression Awareness Week
In recognition of Stress Awareness Month, we're bringing you these resources.
In recognition of Stress Awareness Month, we're bringing you these resources.
Attachment-Focused Interventions for Grief
Discover how Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy promotes growth & resilience
Dr. Leanne Campbell shares how Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy helps clients shift into a state of emotional balance that allows them to process their grief, relieve emotional pain and find meaning in their lives again from their very first session.
Helping Kids Face Fear and Anxiety Head-On
Age-appropriate worksheets to help kids develop coping strategies & build resilience
Help educate children about anxiety, empowering them with awareness while opening the conversation to help normalize their experience with these age-specific worksheets from ºÚÁÏÍø author Christina Furnival, MS, LPCC!
Excavating Hard Things
Free trauma-informed play therapy intervention
When a child is experiencing the intrusive or avoidance symptoms of PTSD, building a coherent narrative becomes essential to treatment. Paris Goodyear-Brown, MSSW, LCSW, RPT-S, demonstrates an exercise designed to help children verbalize their big emotions.
ºÚÁÏÍø Celebrates Children’s Book Day!: Top 5 Books for Children’s Social-Emotional Learning
Children’s books can do so much more than entertain young readers! Check out ºÚÁÏÍø’s top picks for International Children’s Book Day with these five incredible titles.
Havening for Kids: 2 Powerful Stress-Busting Tools
Advice and video demonstration from Dr. Kate Truitt
Whether they're experiencing hyperarousal or hypoarousal, kids often need the help of a caregiver to return to a more calm, alert state. Dr. Kate Truitt shares two simple but effective techniques to help kids cope with stress and stay regulated.
Making the Most Informed Choice: The SODAS Problem-Solving Model
Free exercise to aid young clients in decision making
Help young clients make healthy choices with this simple problem-solving paradigm! ºÚÁÏÍø author David Pratt presents a step-by-step way to identify options, consider advantages and disadvantages, and select a course of action.