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Diagnosing Eating Disorders: Treatment Options and Referrals
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…
Resistance in Group Therapy: 9 Clinical Strategies to Increase Participation
Resistance in Group Therapy: 9 Effective Ways to Increase Participation Resistance in group therapy is common and can disrupt the therapeutic process for all participants.…
Highly Sensitive Person (HSP): Traits & Clinical Guide
Highly Sensitive Person (HSP): Traits, Characteristics & How Clinicians Can Support HSP Clients A highly sensitive person (HSP) experiences sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) – a…
Navigating Diagnostic Challenges: Borderline Personality Disorder vs Bipolar Disorder
Navigating Diagnostic Challenges: Borderline Personality Disorder vs Bipolar Disorder Borderline personality disorder (BPD) and bipolar disorder (BD) can be easily confused with one another. Not…
Transference and Countertransference in Therapy: Examples & Tips
Transference and Countertransference in Therapy: Definition, Examples, and How to Manage It Transference and countertransference in therapy refer to the relational dynamics between client and…
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT): Techniques & Stages
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT): Techniques, Stages, and Clinical Applications Emotionally focused couples therapy (EFCT) is an evidence-based approach designed to help partners strengthen emotional…
Benefits of Group Therapy: Why Therapists Should Start Groups
The Benefits of Group Therapy: Why More Therapists Should Start Groups Group therapy is a highly beneficial, but often underutilized tool, for people with a…
The Loneliness Epidemic: Critical Insights for Behavioral Health Professionals
The Loneliness Epidemic: Critical Insights for Behavioral Health Professionals In recent years, the loneliness epidemic in the United States, and particularly within younger generations has…