Therapy Exercises
Here you will find articles containing exercises, activities, and interventions to use in your client coaching or therapy sessions.
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 [...]
Role Play in Therapy: 21 Scripts & Examples for Your Session
Role-play has multiple uses related to mental wellness and therapy. It is a technique that doesn’t require any costumes or makeup, and it is a [...]
Mentalization-Based Therapy Guide: Best Worksheets and Techniques
To neuroscientists, psychoanalysts, existential philosophers, and various types of mental health practitioners, the idea of mentalization is both foundational and captivating. Use of the term [...]
ACT Therapy Techniques: 14+ Interventions for Your Sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is one of the third wave of mindfulness-based cognitive-behavioral therapies and has accumulated a huge scientific evidence base demonstrating its [...]
7 Best Grounding Tools and Techniques to Manage Anxiety
Sweaty palms, racing heart, and erratic thoughts – feeling anxious can be debilitating and overwhelming. Once we recognize the experience and when it happens, we [...]
10 Best Problem-Solving Therapy Worksheets & Activities
Humans are excellent problem-solvers, born with an innate ability to find solutions to day-to-day challenges. Cognitive science tells us that we regularly face not only [...]
How to Use the Miracle Question in Therapy: 3 Examples
Is the miracle question as good as it sounds? Well, possibly. For the therapist, the intervention has the power to explore clients’ hidden resources and [...]
How to Apply ACT in Group Therapy: 3 Workshop Activities
Offering Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in groups benefits participants by providing support when clients realize they are not alone with their struggles. Working in [...]
Marketing for Therapists: 10 Strategies to Grow Your Practice
To be successful and run a thriving practice, therapists need to be strategic with their marketing. Over the last 10 years, it has become increasingly [...]
Schema Therapy in Practice: 12 Worksheets & Techniques
Schema Therapy promises to help clients deal with psychological problems that have failed to respond to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT). The treatment aims to reduce symptoms [...]