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Highly sensitive people hugging each other.

4 Traits and 5 Hidden Powers of Highly Sensitive People (HSPs)

As a psychotherapist who works with highly sensitive clients and a highly sensitive person (HSP) myself, I’ve seen the trait … Continued

Tough love can make someone feel alone like this boat out at sea

Why Compassion Is Stronger Than Tough Love for Substance Use Treatment

Caring about someone who struggles with substance use can bring up various feelings—devastation, helplessness, fear, anger, confusion, even annoyance. Perhaps … Continued

A female therapist explains the treatment plan for a client's phonological disorder.

Phonological Disorders

Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) are qualified to treat all types of speech sound disorders, but phonological disorders are among the most … Continued

A female therapist writes out the SOAP note assessment section in her notebook

How to Write the SOAP Note Assessment Section

In this article, we’ll review what needs to be included in the SOAP note Assessment section, including tips and examples … Continued

A teen client is painting during therapy, they're present and grounded, showing the benefits of art therapy activities for teenagers.

Art Therapy Activities for Teenagers

There are many benefits of art therapy for mental health. Importantly, art therapy activities for teenagers provide teen clients a … Continued

Male counselor discussess counseling confidentiality with a client during a session

Explaining Counseling Confidentiality to Clients

Counselors are professional secret keepers, meaning we are both ethically and legally bound to maintain confidentiality in counseling.  This means … Continued

A clinician is sitting with their laptop and their phone. Entering the code sent to their phone to login via two-step verification.

Why Health Practitioners Should Care About Two-Step Verification

By now, we’ve probably all received suspicious emails and text messages.  The kind that say things like: “Click here to … Continued

Two female therapists sit together in the sunset and discuss therapist burnout

Therapists Are Burning Out—Here’s Why, What the Impact Is, and How to Help

With its electronic health record (EHR) and practice management platform serving more than U.S.-based health and wellness practitioners, SimplePractice aims … Continued

A therapist sits at her cluttered desk, overwhelmed by burnout.

6 Strategies for Therapists to Prevent Burnout Before It Happens

Newly-licensed practitioners, and those who have recently started their own private practice, tend to jump into scheduling and seeing clients—giving … Continued

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