I would like to thank my friend, colleague, and co-author of It’s About To Get Real Unprofessional, Katelyn, for sharing her expertise with us today. The following is from a thread that she shared on her Twitter and gave me permission to post here. I hear a lot from parents that they felt past therapyContinue reading “Therapy with Teens: More Than “Just Talking””
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Telehealth Activity: Dance Party
There is more than one way to do a telehealth dance party! You can have a literal dance party where your client chooses a song, and you both rock out in front of your cameras. This can be a lot of fun but is also challenging because you have to try to stay in-frame. TheContinue reading “Telehealth Activity: Dance Party”
5 Essential Tips for Telehealth with Kids
With my new book’s release date fast approaching, I’ve put together five tips for your telehealth sessions. I wrote this piece for PESI’s website, and you can get two free telehealth activities there! Therapists are still reeling from the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic had on therapy. While sessions continued with telehealth options, gone wasContinue reading “5 Essential Tips for Telehealth with Kids”
Building a Therapy Practice: Finding Referral Sources
A couple of weeks ago, I was on a panel to discuss creating a therapy practice. Graduate programs do not really cover how to market yourself as a therapist or how to set up your own practice, which is incredibly annoying when you consider how much we paid to be there. Since I had toContinue reading “Building a Therapy Practice: Finding Referral Sources”
Telehealth Activity: Choose Your Own Adventure
I love creative interventions for therapy! One of my favorite things about telehealth is that it opens us up to even more options if we just think about things a different way. I was recently sent a link to this tutorial on how to create Choose Your Own Adventure stories using Google slides. It isContinue reading “Telehealth Activity: Choose Your Own Adventure”
Telemental Health with Kids Toolbox: Coming December 15, 2021
It’s happening! After more than a year and a half of telehealth with kids, gathering interventions, problem solving, troubleshooting, and technical support, I’ve compiled more than 100 kid-friendly telehealth interventions into a book. I also talk about how to create even more interventions for your own, personalized toolbox of telehealth activities. I owe the peopleContinue reading “Telemental Health with Kids Toolbox: Coming December 15, 2021”
App Review: Done
Done is an app that helps you create healthy habits and goals to make positive changes in your life. You can work on increasing an activity or decreasing something you feel is not serving you. It is self-guided, allowing you to tailor the goals to your specific needs and lifestyle, and the app offers accountabilityContinue reading “App Review: Done”
Telehealth Safety Tip: Hand Signal
I interrupt your previously scheduled telehealth activity post with a safety tip! Yesterday, the New York Times shared the story of a young girl who had been kidnapped and signaled to another driver that she was in trouble using a hand signal. I recognized the hand signal as something I learned from a telehealth training,Continue reading “Telehealth Safety Tip: Hand Signal”
Interview with Dr. Pam Hall, Psychologist and Author
Recently, Dr. Pamela Hall, Ph.D., was kind enough to take the time to talk with me about her book, PTSD Unplugged. Dr. Hall is a psychologist who specializes in working with veterans who developed PTSD as a result of their service, and she has helped approximately 6,000 veterans through her work. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder isContinue reading “Interview with Dr. Pam Hall, Psychologist and Author”
Sleep Hygiene: When You Can’t Sleep
One of the most frustrating things is when you want to sleep, you follow your routine, you lie down in bed, and it just…doesn’t happen. Maybe you had a particularly stressful day, or maybe you had caffeine later than usual. Or maybe you fell asleep, but a noise or a dream woke you, and nowContinue reading “Sleep Hygiene: When You Can’t Sleep”