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12/18/2025

🔥🔥🔥What a year it has been. We're so grateful for all of you who continue to do this work each and every day. It isn't easy, but it is SO important.

What are you doing this holiday season to take care of you?
Let us know in the comments!

Treating complex trauma means helping clients reconnect with the parts of themselves that once felt unsafe, unseen, or u...
12/18/2025

Treating complex trauma means helping clients reconnect with the parts of themselves that once felt unsafe, unseen, or unheard.

Dr. Janina Fisher has spent decades showing us that healing begins when we shift from “I feel…” to “A part of me feels…” a small change that builds trust, deepens insight, and opens the door to real transformation.

To help you bring this work into session with confidence, we're sharing a set of simple, powerful worksheets in her upcoming workbook Embracing Our Fragmented Selves.

✨ You can download a FREE set of these worksheets here and start using them with clients right away: https://bit.ly/48QKb7m

The presenting problem is rarely the whole story.As therapists, we know that what shows up in session is often just the ...
12/18/2025

The presenting problem is rarely the whole story.

As therapists, we know that what shows up in session is often just the surface. The "one thing" your client mentions—the sexless marriage, the persistent conflict, the feeling of disconnection—is the invitation to explore what lies beneath.

Join PESI and renowned experts Dr. Tammy Nelson and Dr. Abi Blakeslee at Blue Spirit Retreat, Costa Rica for ✨Reclaiming Intimacy: Healing Through the Body, Mind & Relationship✨ | March 21–28, 2026.

This transformative retreat integrates somatic healing with trauma-informed relationship work. Learn to help clients regulate their nervous systems, resolve trauma, and rebuild trust after betrayal or disconnection. Explore how to increase secure attachment through embodied practices and discover clinical tools for erotic recovery and emotional repair.

Through experiential learning, live demonstrations, and guided exercises, you'll gain practical skills to accelerate reconnection in your clinical work—while experiencing profound healing in your own body and relationships.

Plus, earn continuing education hours included in your tuition.
Open to healing professionals individually or with partners. Space is limited.

Secure your spot today through the link in the comments below.

12/17/2025

Just dropping a friendly reminder that it's okay to leave the party if your social battery is out of juice. 💙

This is the heart of trauma-informed mindfulness work. Your clients don't need you to fix them. They need tools to recla...
12/17/2025

This is the heart of trauma-informed mindfulness work.

Your clients don't need you to fix them. They need tools to reclaim their own story so they can face their pain without being consumed by it, and to reconnect with the strength that's been there all along.

That's exactly what you'll learn in Dr. Richard Sears' FREE 2-Day Mindfulness Certification Training (Jan 8-9). 🔗 Register here: https://bit.ly/4rL8ex8

Discover evidence-based mindfulness interventions specifically designed for: ✨ Trauma survivors finding their way back to safety ✨ Clients struggling with ADHD, substance use, grief & loss ✨ Anyone learning to hold pain and possibility at the same time

You'll walk away with practical session tools, client handouts, and the skills to help your clients write a new chapter where they're the author, not the victim.

💫 100% FREE training (a $459.99 value!) 💫 Become a Certified Mindfulness Informed Professional 💫 Live Q&A + 14 days of replays 💫 Optional 12.5 CE hours available

📅 January 8-9 | Live online 🔗 Register here: https://bit.ly/4rL8ex8

12/15/2025

I'll just scroll through a few memes and then it's right back to work!

The 49th Annual Psychotherapy Networker Symposium returns March 19–22, 2026—join us live in Washington, D.C. or online.🧠...
12/14/2025

The 49th Annual Psychotherapy Networker Symposium returns March 19–22, 2026—join us live in Washington, D.C. or online.

🧠 Learn directly from leaders shaping the field, including Nadine Burke Harris, Bruce Perry, Ramani Durvasula, and many more.

💼 Earn up to a full year of CE credits while gaining practical tools you can bring right into session.

🎟️ Early Bird pricing is now open! Save up to 40% with risk-free registration and no cancellation fees. Register here: https://bit.ly/3Me4ynh

This is the kind of honest, grounded approach you'll get in Dr. Sears' FREE 2-Day Mindfulness Certification Training (Ja...
12/13/2025

This is the kind of honest, grounded approach you'll get in Dr. Sears' FREE 2-Day Mindfulness Certification Training (Jan 8-9). 🔗 Register here: https://bit.ly/4rL8ex8

No magic fixes. No oversimplified techniques. Just evidence-based methods that help your clients transform their relationship with anxiety, trauma, grief, pain, and more.

You don't need to erase your clients' struggles. You need tools to help them navigate those struggles differently. That's what this training delivers.

✨ Learn practical mindfulness interventions for trauma, ADHD, substance use & more
✨ Get client handouts, slides, and real session strategies
✨ Optional 12.5 CE hours available
✨ Live Q&A with Dr. Sears + 14 days of replays

This isn't about teaching clients to "just breathe." It's about giving them—and you—the skills to hold space for what is, while opening pathways for what could be.

📅 January 8-9 | 100% Free 🔗 Register here: https://bit.ly/4rL8ex8

This opportunity may not come again. Your practice (and your clients) deserve this.

12/12/2025

You mean, I have to make an excel spreadsheet? 😫😫😫

If you're ready to go BEYOND basic mindfulness techniques and learn evidence-based interventions for the toughest clinic...
12/11/2025

If you're ready to go BEYOND basic mindfulness techniques and learn evidence-based interventions for the toughest clinical issues... this is for you.

Dr. Richard Sears is offering FREE 2-day certification training (Jan 8-9) that shows you exactly how to apply mindfulness in real sessions with real challenges.

✨ FREE live training + materials ✨ Become a Certified Mindfulness Informed Professional ✨ Live Q&A to get your specific questions answered ✨ 14 days of replays

This is a $459.99 value, completely free. Optional CE hours available for a small upgrade.

The practical tools you'll gain in 2 days could transform how you work with anxiety, pain, addictions, grief, and more.

Spaces are limited—register now: https://bit.ly/4rL8ex8

12/11/2025

The Fax: "Please send the entire patient file including diagnosis, treatment plan, and most recent notes."

Me: In your dreams. 😎

12/10/2025

Can you sit in stillness with your clients, or does the silence feel uncomfortable, even unsafe?
Deb Dana reminds us of something crucial: if WE can't find safety in stillness, we can't model it for our clients.

Stillness doesn't have to be long. Even a few seconds of quiet presence in session can be powerful. But for many therapists (and clients), those moments feel threatening rather than nourishing.

Your nervous system sets the tone. When you're anchored in regulation, stillness becomes spacious and restorative. When you're dysregulated, that same silence can feel like danger.

This is the work. Learning to befriend stillness in your own body so you can hold space for it in the room with your clients.

Next month, join Deb Dana in Costa Rica to experience this work firsthand. You'll learn to:
✨ Recognize your own autonomic responses to stillness
✨ Create safety for clients in quiet moments
✨ Use stillness as a therapeutic tool, not something to avoid

Because you AND your clients deserve to become more present in the pause.

Ready to deepen your relationship with stillness? Click the link in the comments to register for Deb's Polyvagal Theory retreat at Blue Spirit Retreat, Costa Rica. CEs available. Limited space. Time is running out.🌴



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Since our founding in 1979, PESI, a nonprofit organization, has provided cutting-edge continuing education to professionals across the globe. Working alongside the world’s leading experts, we create a wide range of continuing education products and services, including seminars, conferences, online courses, DVDs, CDs, and books. All of our work is dedicated to training professionals like you on today’s newest and most talked-about topics.

We are proud to have the most robust continuing education library in the nation. You can attend one of our live seminars in all 50 states and can access our products and digital library anywhere in the world. We are a leading publisher, with over 160 titles and 11 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards.

Currently, PESI works with 225 credit boards and other credit-granting entities to provide you with the tools, resources, and certifications you need to grow and help those you serve.

In 2019, we were honored to have been voted Chippewa Valley’s Best Employer. PESI currently employs 150 talented associates globally—all dedicated to helping Connect Knowledge With Need.