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Exploring Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Therapy for Treatment-Resistant Disorders

By Lindsay Rutter, MA, NCC, LPC | August 29, 2024

Exploring Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Therapy for Treatment-Resistant Disorders If you’re a clinician or mental health professional, you understand the challenges of treatment-resistant depression, anxiety…

What is Desire Discrepancy? Causes, Solutions & Couples Therapy Strategies

By Lindsay Rutter, MA, NCC, LPC | August 16, 2024

Desire Discrepancy in Relationships: Causes, Solutions, and Couples Therapy Approaches Quick Definition What Is Desire Discrepancy? Desire discrepancy is a difference in sexual desire between…

Bibliotherapy Books, Techniques & Examples for Therapists

By Lindsay Rutter, MA, NCC, LPC | August 9, 2024

Bibliotherapy Books, Techniques & Examples: A Clinician’s Guide Bibliotherapy is an evidence-based therapeutic approach that uses carefully selected books, memoirs, workbooks, and other reading materials…

Online Group Therapy: Opportunities and Challenges for Effective Treatment

By Eric Patterson | MSCP, NCC, LPC | August 1, 2024

Online Group Therapy: Navigating Opportunities and Challenges for Effective Treatment Online group therapy is a wonderful treatment modality for clients and the therapists treating them. …

Grief Assessment Tools & Evidence-Based Interventions: A Clinician’s Guide

By Kaylee Kron, LMSW | July 25, 2024

Grief Assessment Tools: How to Assess, Document, and Treat Grief Effectively This guide helps behavioral health clinicians use validated grief assessment tools to evaluate loss,…

Intergenerational Trauma: Examples, Symptoms & Healing Strategies

By Eric Patterson | MSCP, NCC, LPC | July 19, 2024

Intergenerational Trauma: Examples, Symptoms, and Healing Strategies Intergenerational trauma – also called generational trauma or transgenerational trauma – occurs when the effects of unresolved trauma…

Improve Compliance with Behavioral Health Chart Audits

By October Boyles, DNP, MSN, BSN, RN | July 12, 2024

Behavioral Health Chart Audit Tool: A Complete Guide to Mental Health Audits A behavioral health chart audit tool helps practices improve documentation quality, reduce compliance…

Diagnosing Eating Disorders: Treatment Options and Referrals

By Hannah Norling, MA | July 9, 2024

Diagnosing and Treating Eating Disorders: What All Clinicians Need to Know Diagnosing eating disorders is often tricky and treating eating disorders can be even trickier.…

The Top Skills a Group Therapist Needs

By Eric Patterson | MSCP, NCC, LPC | June 24, 2024

The Top Skills a Group Therapist Needs and How to Develop Them A successful group therapist needs a unique blend of clinical expertise, facilitation ability,…

Facilitating a Therapy Group for Special Populations

By Eric Patterson | MSCP, NCC, LPC | June 24, 2024

Facilitating a Therapy Group for Special Populations A therapy group tends to be organized by the diagnosis or set of symptoms it is designed to…

Becoming a Group Therapy Facilitator

By Eric Patterson | MSCP, NCC, LPC | June 24, 2024

Becoming a Group Therapy Facilitator: Making the Leap to Therapy Groups Maybe you’re a new therapist looking to expand their skill base as a group…

How to Start a Therapy Group

By Eric Patterson | MSCP, NCC, LPC | June 24, 2024

How to Start a Therapy Group: Picking Topics and Modalities   Now that you’ve decided to start a therapy group, the hard work really begins.…

How to Run a Group Therapy Session: Structure, Engagement & Best Practices

By Eric Patterson | MSCP, NCC, LPC | June 24, 2024

How to Run Group Therapy Sessions Successfully Having a plan for a therapy group is wonderful, but until you put your plan into motion and…

PTSD Criteria and Grief: A Clinician’s Guide to Diagnosis

By Kaylee Kron, LMSW | June 12, 2024

PTSD Criteria and Grief: A Clinician’s Guide to Diagnosis, Differentiation, and Treatment Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and grief often overlap but require careful clinical differentiation…

Benefits of Outsourcing Mental Health Billing Services

By October Boyles, DNP, MSN, BSN, RN | June 6, 2024

Benefits of Outsourcing Mental Health Billing Services As a mental health provider, you likely know how stressful and time-consuming it can be to spend hours…