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[NEW COURSE] Rachel Tomlinson explains how therapeutic storytelling can be used as a structured clinical intervention to support trauma integration, emotional regulation, and identity repair: https://buff.ly/HAjB62h

Therapeutic Storytelling for Trauma Healing | Mental Health Academy Rachel Tomlinson, Registered Psychologist, explores therapeutic storytelling for trauma integration, identity repair, and meaning-making.

High-intensity emotions—such as rage, panic, shame, and grief—can dominate the therapeutic space. This article explores how therapists can best manage them: https://buff.ly/grD2Tdx

Managing High-Intensity Emotions | Mental Health Academy High-intensity emotions can dominate the therapeutic space. This article explores how therapists can best manage them.

This article presents evidence-based self-compassion interventions, giving clinicians practical tools and cultural insights to reduce client self-criticism and enhance resilience: https://buff.ly/DEykIG5

Self-Compassion Interventions | Mental Health Academy This article shares self-compassion interventions, including practical tools & cultural insights to reduce self-criticism & foster resilience.

[NEW COURSE] Sonja Riddle explains how addiction reorganises entire family systems and why clinicians must move beyond individualised treatment models to support sustainable recovery: https://buff.ly/44AqD46

Integrating Families into Addiction Treatment | Mental Health Academy Sonja Riddle, Canadian Certified Counsellor, explores systemic family integration strategies for ethical addiction treatment and recovery support.

[NEW COURSE] Matias Gay explains the su***de risk implications of legalising medical assistance in dying for mental disorders, examining the clinical, ethical, and societal tensions involved in distinguishing suicidality from eligibility, and highlighting why stronger safeguards are essential to protect vulnerable populations: https://buff.ly/761jt6P

Su***de Risk and MAID for Mental Disorders | Mental Health Academy Matias Gay, RN, explores su***de risk, ethics, and assessment challenges in legalising MAID for mental disorders.

Vulnerability can strengthen connection in couple relationships — but only when there is enough emotional safety for openness to be heard rather than punished, dismissed, or rejected. In this video, psychologist Dr. Christine McKee explores the factors that foster or inhibit vulnerability in couples, with particular attention to attachment patterns, family-of-origin experiences, childhood trauma, nervous system responses, relational history, and power dynamics: https://buff.ly/xUa9SrO

Why Couples Struggle With Vulnerability: What Helps & Hinders Vulnerability can strengthen connection in couple relationships — b...

This article explores how therapist and client attachment styles interact in therapy – and what it means for rupture, repair, and clinical practice: https://buff.ly/ssLBr34

When Attachment Styles Meet in Therapy | Mental Health Academy This article explores how therapist & client attachment styles interact – and what it means for rupture, repair, & clinical practice.

Death anxiety is often assumed to emerge only in the face of illness, ageing, or bereavement. Existential perspectives suggest it may influence human behaviour more than many people realise: https://buff.ly/ # #

How Mortality Awareness Shapes Life | Mental Health Academy Existential perspectives suggest that death anxiety and mortality awareness may influence human behaviour more than many people realise.

As AI becomes part of everyday life, how might it influence relationships? This article explores what therapists need to know about clients’ changing conversational worlds: https://buff.ly/YAdXkYb

Machines As Conversation Partners | Mental Health Academy As AI becomes part of everyday life, how might it influence relationships? This article explores what therapists need to know.