Practicing mindfulness can be a valuable exercise when feeling anxious, stressed, or helpless. Mindfulness promotes awareness, reflection, and self-soothing skills. These skills can help clients cope with overwhelming feelings and stressful moments in their day. Teaching clients how to incorporate mindfulness exercises in [...]
Teaching kids in therapy how to talk about their feelings and needs is an important part of their mental health care. Children often have feelings and needs they may not know how to express. This struggle can cause confusion and frustration for both children and their caretakers, which is why encouraging healthy communicat [...]
Core beliefs are deeply held beliefs that a person has about oneself, the world, and the future. These beliefs are shaped by their interpretations of life experiences. Negative core beliefs can trigger negative thought patterns and can cause a person to react to upsetting situations in unhealthy ways. A core belief can fee [...]
Creating a safe space for clients to share similar experiences with anxiety can help build trust in trying new strategies for managing symptoms. In a group therapy setting, clients have the opportunity to learn from each other and work together to develop healthier coping skills. Relating to group members with similar stru [...]
Overwhelming emotions can become distressing for clients when they do not have the right tools for coping. Experiences like panic attacks, emotional dysregulation, anger, and trauma responses can trigger unwanted reactions if not properly addressed. Clients who do not have healthy coping skills for emotional distress are a [...]
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has become a leading form of treatment that mental health professionals use when working with their clients. Part of the process of CBT is focusing on the interaction between a client's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. A tool used to explain how these three components affect a person's [...]
Practicing mindfulness can be a valuable exercise when feeling anxious, stressed, or helpless. Mindfulness promotes awareness, reflection, and self-soothing skills. These skills can help clients cope with overwhelming feelings and stressful moments in their day. Teaching clients how to incorporate mindfulness exercises in [...]
When teaching your clients cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) coping skills, it is important to introduce them to common thinking errors. Thinking errors, or cognitive distortions, are thought patterns that can affect how clients interpret situations, which can contribute to hurt feelings, unwanted behaviors, an impaired s [...]
Grieving can be very overwhelming and confusing for a child. Loss and death can be complicated concepts, and it can be hard for a child to understand what they mean and how the permanence of a loved one's passing will affect them. It is not uncommon for a child to experience a range of emotions after a loss and struggle to [...]
Exploring values can help a great deal in therapy. When a client understands their values, they can gain a better understanding of their goals and what they want from life. They also learn about the type of person they want to be and how they want to behave. When a person lacks a clear understanding of their values, they c [...]
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