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Neurodiversity-Affirming Play Therapy with Children and Teens

Neurodiversity-Affirming Play Therapy with Children and Teens

with Robert Jason Grant
There is growing awareness that the traditional deficit-based therapeutic mindset that pathologizes neurological differences such as autism and ADHD often lead to poor mental health outcomes. Learn how to help young neurodivergent clients thrive by using neurodiversity-affirming play practices that build therapeutic connection and emphasize collaboration and validation. Empower neurodivergent children and teens with play interventions tailored to support their unique needs and celebrate their strengths all while having fun. 
Crisis Counseling: 7 Steps to Effective Intervention

Crisis Counseling: 7 Steps to Effective Intervention

with Derrick Paladino
How can you provide immediate relief to clients devastated by a crisis? This online course provides therapists and counselors with a blueprint they can use to confidently intervene, stabilize and support clients overwhelmed in the wake of crises.
Working in the Here and Now: Deepening Therapeutic Encounters Part 2

Working in the Here and Now: Deepening Therapeutic Encounters Part 2

with Victor Yalom
Therapists can easily fall back on intellectual discussions, abstractions, and analyzing thoughts with anxious or depressed clients, when the real struggle is connecting with their feelings and, in turn, with others. Learn to harness the therapeutic power of the here-and-now to free clients who are walled off from themselves and others so you can help them begin to live authentic, connected lives.  
Working Online with Suicidal Clients in the Age of COVID

Working Online with Suicidal Clients in the Age of COVID

with John Sommers-Flanagan
How has the rapid shift to online therapy affected the way we work with suicidal clients? Victor Yalom and John Sommers-Flanagan discuss how to effectively engage, assess and monitor suicidal clients in the age of online therapy and the impact that COVID has had on suicidality.
Experiential Techniques for Deepening Inner Exploration: Part 1

Experiential Techniques for Deepening Inner Exploration: Part 1

with Victor Yalom
Victor Yalom demonstrates powerful techniques to help clients go deeper into their immediate internal experience so they can discover new facets of themselves, including thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations. 
Working in the Here and Now: Deepening Therapeutic Encounters Part 3

Working in the Here and Now: Deepening Therapeutic Encounters Part 3

with Victor Yalom
In this third and final session with Heather, Victor Yalom continues to work in the here-and-now of the therapeutic relationship to help her access and explore deep emotions which relate to her therapeutic goals. As you'll see, focusing on what’s happening in real time in the therapist-client relationship requires courage and vulnerability from both therapist and client.
Reimagining Multiculturalism: A Contemporary Narrative Approach, Volume 1 Vinodha

Reimagining Multiculturalism: A Contemporary Narrative Approach, Volume 1 Vinodha

with Travis Heath
Do you want to know your clients beyond the constrictive labels of presenting problems, diagnoses and other traditional constructs of psychotherapy? Using a Narrative Therapy lens, Travis Heath will show you a culturally democratic approach to therapy that draws upon existing client strengths, traditions and other resources to foster deep understanding, insight and connection.
Reimagining Multiculturalism: A Contemporary Narrative Approach, Volume 3: Ian

Reimagining Multiculturalism: A Contemporary Narrative Approach, Volume 3: Ian

with Travis Heath
How can you bring yourself to the room more fully as a person, offering more than just empathy? Discover how to become an active participant in the process of moving clients beyond the limits of their worlds as they know them. Using a Contemporary Narrative Therapy approach, you can help clients trace the profound impact of systemic racism, and redefine not just their own stories, but the limits they have set for themselves.
Reimagining Narrative Therapy: Rewriting Stories and Reclaiming Identities

Reimagining Narrative Therapy: Rewriting Stories and Reclaiming Identities

with Travis Heath
Travis Heath presents his work with three clients who have stood up to racism in their own unique ways and shares contemporary techniques to help your clients move beyond constricting narratives about pathology, race, and identity, to live in more authentic and meaningful ways. 
Online Remote Phototherapy: An Art Therapy Case Study

Online Remote Phototherapy: An Art Therapy Case Study

with Robert Irwin Wolf
This lecture examines a remote phototherapy treatment initiated to overcome geographical barriers to care. Through a compelling case study, it explores transference, resistance, and the transformative potential of online creative arts therapies.
Jessica Stone on Play Therapy in the Digital Age

Jessica Stone on Play Therapy in the Digital Age

Crossing the digital divide with young clients can lead to great therapeutic strides.
Online Therapy: An Unexpected Space of Freedom

Online Therapy: An Unexpected Space of Freedom

with Anastasia Piatakhina Giré
International psychotherapist Anastasia Piatakhina provides a place of refuge and healing through online therapy with women living in oppressive societies.
Joseph Burgo on Shame, Narcissism and the Art of Empathy

Joseph Burgo on Shame, Narcissism and the Art of Empathy

For psychotherapist Joseph Burgo, shame and narcissism are resources awaiting the delicate hand of the empathetic clinician.
That Tipsy Session: The Power of Self-Disclosure

That Tipsy Session: The Power of Self-Disclosure

with Anastasia Piatakhina Giré
Help your clients move from shame to self-acceptance by accepting your own personal vulnerability.
Unlocked: Online Therapy Stories

Unlocked: Online Therapy Stories

with Anastasia Piatakhina Giré
In an excerpt from “Unlocked: Online Therapy Stories,” Anastasia Piatakhina Giré shares intimate reflections on her work with Laila, whose harrowing escape to freedom is a tale of personal empowerment and the power of connection.
  
Are High-Risk Clients Suitable for Online Psychotherapy?

Are High-Risk Clients Suitable for Online Psychotherapy?

with Anastasia Piatakhina Giré & Joseph Burgo, PhD
Two psychotherapists seasoned in long-distance Skype therapy discuss the unique challenges—and advantages—to treating high-risk clients online.
Anastasia Piatakhina Giré on Teletherapy, Borders and Building Bridges

Anastasia Piatakhina Giré on Teletherapy, Borders and Building Bridges

Multinational, multilingual therapist Anastasia Piatakhina Giré teaches us how she builds bridges and connections with displaced clients through teletherapy.
Family Therapy in the Age of Zoom: What a Long Strange Trip It Has Been

Family Therapy in the Age of Zoom: What a Long Strange Trip It Has Been

with Jay Lappin
An old-school family therapist attempts to reconcile the distancing forced upon us by the pandemic.
In Bed With Your Therapist: The Paradoxical Intimacy of Online Psychotherapy

In Bed With Your Therapist: The Paradoxical Intimacy of Online Psychotherapy

with Anastasia Piatakhina Giré & Joseph Burgo, PhD
Psychotherapists Anastasia Piatakhina Giré and Joseph Burgo, who conduct therapy with clients around the world over Skype, share about the unique aspects of being let into the intimate spaces of their clients homes.
Thomas Insel on Science, Zip Code, and Future-Proofing Psychotherapy

Thomas Insel on Science, Zip Code, and Future-Proofing Psychotherapy

Neuroscience has unlocked many mysteries about the nature of mental health and illness, says former NIMH chief Thomas Insel, but now must yield to effective psychological and social interventions.
How an Anti-Tech Group Therapist Became a True Believer

How an Anti-Tech Group Therapist Became a True Believer

with Sean Grover
A self-professed techno-dinosaur share the lessons he learned evolving to meet the demands of online group therapy.
Changing Places

Changing Places

with Maggie Mulqueen
Veteran therapist Maggie Mulqueen relocates her practice and unpacks surprising insights about change. 
Hotel Room Therapy

Hotel Room Therapy

with Anastasia Piatakhina Giré
Self-described ‘displaced-person’ and therapist Anastasia Piatakhina shares her online work with a restless and disconnected hotel-session client.
Language as Boundary

Language as Boundary

with Anastasia Piatakhina Giré
Multilingual, multinational therapist Anastasia Piatakhina bridges language and music with a client struggling to find his true voice.
PhDs in Therapy

PhDs in Therapy

with Anastasia Piatakhina Giré
A therapist reflects on her work with PhD students doing field work abroad and the healing that can happen doing online therapy at such a vulnerable moment in people's lives.
How to Use Structured Writing to Help Clients Unclutter

How to Use Structured Writing to Help Clients Unclutter

with Pamela Garber
Using a structured, written, organizational map can help clients disentangle their many problems, so they may begin effectively addressing them in therapy.