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PTSD Treatments: How to Help Clients Process Trauma
Imagine going through a traumatic experience like a car accident, earthquake, or explosion. That would be bad enough, wouldn’t it? Now imagine reliving the experience, [...]
How to Become a Psychotherapist: 9 Courses & Online Options
Psychotherapy is a therapeutic intervention that motivates individuals to make positive changes to their thoughts and lifestyle by improving their emotions and behavior. Psychotherapists fall [...]
How to Motivate Students: 12 Classroom Tips & Examples
Learning is a lifelong endeavor, and in order to instill and sustain a lifelong love of learning, motivation is a must. Inspire. Instill drive. Incite [...]
9 Powerful Existential Therapy Techniques for Your Sessions
While not easily defined, existential therapy builds on ideas taken from philosophy, helping clients to understand and clarify the life they would like to lead [...]
3 Simple Guided Meditation Scripts for Improving Wellbeing
Guided meditation is a great starting point for those new to meditation and a great way to refresh your practice if you are a seasoned [...]
How to Treat Complicated Grief in Therapy: 12 Examples
Each grief experience is unique, yet we share the need to have it witnessed without someone attempting to lessen it or find ways to reframe [...]
13 Types of Grief + How to Treat Loss in Therapy
Every day, millions of people are affected by the loss of a loved one. They remember the precise time, location, and what they were doing [...]
Cognitive Remediation Therapy: 13 Exercises & Worksheets
People experiencing mental health issues often have thinking and memory problems. This can result in concentration, organizational, and planning difficulties that impact their quality of [...]
28 Inspiring Mental Health Quotes That Will Empower You
Mental health is an integral component of maintaining good overall health. When individuals are mentally healthy, they are able to realize their own abilities, cope [...]
10 Scientific Career Counseling Interventions & Techniques
Throughout our lives, we are likely to be troubled with questions or experience self-doubt regarding career choices and what to do next. We may turn [...]