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Actual footage of my brain cells going on a little adventure to find ANYTHING else to do between sessions. 👯🎶
Sure, this rooftop patio is nice, but I've had enough social interaction for the week. Unless of course, there's free food...
Where are all of my introverts at? 💃👯♀️😴🛌
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Let me just go get an ROI signed real quick. 🫖🍵
Sometimes clients think that words like "mindfulness," "somatic techniques," or "affirmations," mean that we're going to be sitting in a quiet room focusing on only our breath or bodily sensations.
In reality? These body based techniques are about so much more than that. They provide a process for re-establishing safety and connection to our bodies in ways that feel genuine and authentic. Somatic therapy allows us to build a bridge between our brains and our bodies, so that we can begin to feel safe in situations that once signaled danger.
So while the words we use may feel stuffy or scientific, in practice, these techniques can be tailored to the unique individual in front of us.
Therapists, what's your favorite way to reconnect to yourself between sessions?
06/07/2026
We are sharing free exercises pulled directly from the new book Medical Trauma: Assessment Tools, Coping Skills, and Recovery Strategies for Survivors and Therapists by Dr. Michelle Flaum and Dr. Sacha McBain. These are practical, ready-to-use resources to help your clients identify symptoms, reflect on how medical trauma is showing up in their daily lives, and begin the path toward recovery.
Download your free exercises here: https://bit.ly/4x1pPDu
My skin is thick and my amygdala is tamed. Those teens will really keep you on your toes though, am I right?!
Therapists, what's your favorite way to break down those walls and build rapport from the get-go with teen clients? Humor? Games? Art? Let us know in the comments 👇
06/06/2026
Your client just survived a cardiac event, a traumatic birth, or a weeks-long ICU stay. They "made it out." So why are they avoiding follow-up care, waking up in a panic, or shutting down when you bring up their medical history?
Medical PTSD is one of the most underidentified forms of trauma in clinical practice, and the numbers are sobering. Up to 30% of ICU survivors meet criteria for it, yet many clinicians are still not screening for it.
If you have clients with significant medical histories, this is worth your time.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4veNK0y
Understanding the Mental Health Effects of Medical Trauma | PESI A patient survives a heart attack. Another delivers her twins via emergency cesarean section. A third spends three weeks in the ICU on a ventilator. By most measures, these are medical success stories: people who made it out. But making it out of a medical crisis and healing from it are not the same...
So many of us were trained to maintain a blank slate in our sessions with clients, but recently it seems like that narrative is changing.
We hear feedback from clients who WANT their therapist to be more human and expressive. And we know that our when clients can feel our authenticity, we build trust and ultimately strengthen the quality of the therapeutic relationship.
But still, it can take some time for therapists to find the balance between being their authentic self in session, and not letting their emotions override or impact their client's experience.
Therapists, where do you fall when it comes to being expressive in sessions? How much is too much?
06/04/2026
One of the hardest things to admit as a couples therapist: you might be the third in the room. When infidelity comes into the session, the pull to take sides is almost automatic. To protect the one who was hurt. To hold the one who strayed accountable. To quietly steer the couple toward the outcome that feels right to you.
But as writes in the latest :
"When we insert ourselves as the moral authority, the rescuer, or the quiet judge, we're no longer neutral facilitators of truth."
When we lose neutrality, we stop serving the couple and start serving our own comfort. We predetermine outcomes. We close off possibilities the couple hasn't even had the chance to explore yet. We decide what their relationship should look like before they do.
Staying neutral doesn't mean staying passive. It means holding space for the complexity, the ambivalence, and the contradictions that affairs always carry. It means resisting the urge to resolve the rupture before the couple has had a chance to understand what the rupture is telling them.
Because sometimes the affair isn't just a betrayal. It's a signal. And our job is to help clients hear it, not silence it with our own certainty.
That takes self-awareness. It takes ongoing reflection on our own values around monogamy, loyalty, and what a "successful" outcome in couples work actually means.
The most powerful thing we can offer a couple in crisis isn't a verdict. It's a witness.
When you're a therapist who works with children and your client says, "Now you be the spooky vampire," you've got a choice to make. You either go big, or go home. 🤣
As therapists who work with children, we lean into these roles and embrace the child's vision because it matters. By entering fully into the child's world, we let them know that we see them, we hear them, and we're going to keep listening. The quality of that therapeutic relationship is so incredibly healing.
Raise your hand if you're the type of therapist that leaves sessions like this thinking, "I can't believe I just got paid to do THAT." 🙋♀️
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