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Mindfulness in Counseling: 8 Best Techniques & Interventions
In the last few decades, there has been a growing interest in mindfulness among health care professionals. The importance of mindfulness in the healing process [...]
How Learned Hopefulness Can Change Your Client’s Life
Hope is something we cling to when uncertainty looms or things begin to go wrong – unclear results from a scan, a call saying our [...]
How to Perform Strengths-Based Therapy and Counseling
Our strengths make up our wealth in life. We can hide them away, remaining fearful, or use and develop them to the benefit of ourselves [...]
Expressive Arts Therapy: 15 Creative Activities and Techniques
Expressive arts therapy is a multimodal holistic health intervention that mobilizes creative expression in the service of healing both mind and body. It is especially [...]
How to Assess and Improve Readiness for Change
Clients seeking professional help from a counselor or therapist are often aware they need to change yet may not be ready to begin their journey. [...]
Inner Child Healing: 35 Practical Tools for Growing Beyond Your Past
Many clients enter therapy because they have relationship patterns that they are tired of repeating (Jackman, 2020). They may arrive at the first session asking, [...]
[NEW EBOOK] The 7 Pillars of a Profitable Practice
As a coach or therapist, the ability to support and guide others is probably second nature. But building a successful and sustainable career out of [...]
Systematic Desensitization Steps: 13 Techniques & Worksheets
Systematic desensitization is used to treat extreme aversions through a combination of graded exposure and relaxation. It is an evidence-based behavioral intervention that is focused [...]
14 Ways Meditation Can Help You Relieve Stress (+ 3 Scripts)
Feeling stressed? Take a few moments to focus on your breath rising and falling while sitting comfortably with a straight back in a quiet place. [...]
22 Best Counseling Techniques & Tools of All Time (+PDF)
Counseling can be incredibly helpful for individuals seeking to overcome troublesome problems or figuring out how to live according to their values and long-term goals [...]