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Teaching Your Clients Body Awareness

The body provides a wonderful signaling system that, if listened to, can help clients learn about their symptoms and solutions. Body awareness is an important tool for clients to utilize....

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The Benefits Of Using Handouts In Therapy

If you see your role as a therapist as being a psycho-educator then good handouts are essential. Handouts help clients remember important details and they reinforce learning. Powerful therapy is...

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Affirmations

Sometimes affirmations don’t work because they are too big of a stretch. Learn to design affirmations with your counseling and therapy clients that are within reach by keeping them realistic, grounded...

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The Most Powerful Question

Keep psychotherapy effective and powerful by asking the right questions. The most powerful question is, “Who is the person you want to be?” in the midst of …. Help your clients hone a vision of what...

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Untangling Knots

Help your psychotherapy clients speak in an affirmative and solution focused manner. Invite them to talk less about eliminating and negating things and focus instead on what they want to create. Teach...

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Personal Disclosure In Therapy

Disclosing in psychotherapy can, at times, be very helpful to clients. Personal disclosure should be done with caution and clear intention for the benefit of the client. Doing so strategically can...

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Inviting vs. Directing Change

In psychotherapy it is much more powerful to invite clients to change than directing them to change. This subtle difference in language has deep ramifications on the clients sense of choice and...

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Self-Care 101

Self-Care 101 is a great handout for helping psychotherapy clients develop skills of self-observation, need recognition, and self-authorship. You can help your clients build a positive and supportive...

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Healing Old Wounds: A Way To Relieve Symptoms, Create Meaning, And Clarify...

DOWNLOAD The Healing Old Wounds Summary Handout Introduction Healing Old Wounds is an experiential therapeutic technique designed from an amalgamation of a variety of psychotherapeutic modalities,...

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Keeping Yourself Nourished As A Therapist

Carla loves her work. She sees 20 – 25 clients each week as a therapist in her private practice. She comes home to a wonderful family of two adorable, although imperfect, grade school children and a...

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