What’s Right About Your Clients

Lisa helps you to explore how your client has been able to survive, transcend, and thrive beyond their trauma and how it impacts their course of therapy.

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Mental Health Professionals: The Grass Isn’t Greener on the Other Side

  I’ve just returned from a wonderful stay in London and Ireland, having had the opportunity to train mental health professionals who were eager to learn and absorb “trauma informed” theory...

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Planting Seeds of Hope

I have often likened being a therapist to being a diligent and nurturing gardener. So much of the time we are planting seeds, encouraging clients to become curious about their...

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The Upside to the Internet and Social Media

Summer is the time of year when we tend to stay up later and play outside more often, feeling entertained by baseball games, ocean waves, fireworks, and nighttime strolls. As...

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How am I Doing?: Making Sure Therapy is Working for our Clients

I believe that all therapists enter the field wanting to do productive and healing work with their clients, and are equally dedicated to forging a relationship that’s safe and reparative....

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Highlighting Our Clients’ Resiliency

Everyone faces adversity at some point in their lives. Sometimes it feels like a bump in the road and sometimes it feels like we are forced to climb Mount Everest...

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Staying Sensitive to Cultural Differences

As I travel with my family through Italy, this trip abroad continues to highlight the importance of being sensitive to cultural differences. It’s amazing (and a little embarrassing) how we...

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Shining a Spotlight on Mental Health Awareness Month

When we focus on a person’s mental health, we’re looking at the ways in which it impacts their thoughts, emotions, moods, ability to relate to others, efficacy at work and...

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Is Tele-Mental Health Good for Psychotherapy?

In all likelihood, in the near future, you will begin to get requests from clients to provide Tele-Mental health services. There are several manifestations of this phenomenon, but I’ll focus...

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Everything Old is New Again

Recently, I took a week-long training at the wonderful Cape Cod Institute on ACT- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Although I had heard of the model, I was not familiar with...

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