PESI

04/03/2026

How do you explain a job that includes…

✨ grief, joy, trauma, laughter, breakthroughs, silence, secondary trauma, imposter syndrome, ethical dilemmas, and the occasional existential crisis ✨
…without breaking HIPAA?

Let’s just say it’s “fun.” 😅

Deeply meaningful, mind-bending, sometimes heartbreaking, soul-rewarding…
But also, “fun.”

04/02/2026

Therapist superpower?
📚 Knowing what we don’t know, and caring enough to figure it out.

Even when a presenting issue is outside our scope, we research, consult, and refer with intention. Because our job isn’t to have all the answers.

It’s to make sure clients feel seen, supported, and guided to the help they do need. 💪🧠💛

04/02/2026

What changes for your clients when you feel fully equipped in session?

More regulation. Less reactivity. Deeper trust. Faster breakthroughs.

That's what clinicians report after learning Dr. Dan Siegel's brain-based tools and on April 28, you can learn them directly from him. Free.

In this FREE 4-hour live virtual training, Dr. Siegel teaches the 10 clinical tools he uses most—practical, neuroscience-backed strategies that help clients:

✔ Stay regulated under stress instead of flooding or shutting down
✔ Build the self-awareness to recognize and shift their own patterns
✔ Develop stronger, more secure relationships
✔ Move from chaos or rigidity into flexible, adaptive functioning

These tools work across modalities (CBT, EMDR, IFS, somatic, relational) and with every population you serve.

Register free via the link in the comments.

03/31/2026

What if ADHD isn't a disorder to be managed but a response to be understood?

That's the question Gabor Maté has spent decades sitting with, and the answer changes everything about how we work with clients.

Join us on May 12 for a free live workshop with Dr. Maté and ADHD specialist Terry Matlen, LMSW where we'll move beyond behavior charts and medication debates and get to what's actually driving attention struggles, impulsivity, and emotional dysregulation.

🔗 Free registration: https://bit.ly/4sRyplB

03/30/2026

In foster care, loss is not a single event. It is a landscape. Loss of a birth family, a home, a school, a sibling, a beloved caregiver, a sense of self. As Jeanette Yoffe reminds us, "Even when that family was unsafe, children grieve."

For clinicians, the instinct is often to move a child forward, toward stability, toward safety, toward healing. But Yoffe challenges us to pause before we push. The therapeutic task, she says, is not to rush past grief, but "to help children hold it, name it, and share it."

This is slow, tender work. It asks clinicians to resist the pull toward resolution and instead create the conditions for grief to be witnessed. Not fixed. Not reframed too quickly. Witnessed.

Children in foster care are rarely given permission to mourn what they've lost, especially when what they lost was complicated or painful. Our role is to offer that permission. To sit in the room with the loss alongside them. To say, with our presence: this grief is real, it belongs to you, and you do not have to carry it alone.

The most powerful intervention isn't a technique. It's a relationship spacious enough to hold what the child has never been allowed to feel.

Read the full blog and learn how to bring this into your practice 👇
🔗 https://www.pesi.com/blogs/posts/a-transformative-tool-for-healing-foster-youth-trauma/

03/30/2026

Ever feel stuck in circular sessions with your ADHD clients — same struggles, week after week? 😔

You're not alone. And there IS a better way.

Dr. Ari Tuckman — who has trained more clinicians on ADHD productivity than anyone else — is coming to Virginia Beach (and your living room!) for a game-changing 3-day retreat.

🗓 April 8–10, 2026 | Virginia Beach, VA or Live Online

You'll learn how to:
🔹 Break through avoidance and emotional reactivity
🔹 Help clients follow through between sessions
🔹 Reduce shame and build lasting motivation
🔹 Implement real-life behavior-change frameworks that actually work for ADHD brains

Plus earn up to 15 CE Hours and receive Dr. Tuckman's The ADHD Productivity Manual — FREE.

📲 Grab your spot before it sells out → https://bit.ly/4r90Muh

03/27/2026

💙 Do your foster care clients struggle to put their pain into words?

That's not a barrier to therapy. It's a signal that they need a different kind of healing.

Therapist and former foster youth Jeanette Yoffe, MA, LMFT, shares one of the most powerful interventions she's used in 20+ years of working with this population: the Hold Onto My Feelings technique.

Read the full blog and learn how to bring this into your practice 👇
🔗 https://www.pesi.com/blogs/posts/a-transformative-tool-for-healing-foster-youth-trauma/

They carry the memory of a parent who didn't show up for visits. The confusion of loving someone who hurt them. The shame of believing deeply and privately that it was somehow their fault. As clinicians, we see these wounds expressed through behaviors that follow children from placement to placement...

03/27/2026

As clinicians, we know this isn't just a beautiful idea. It's neuroscience.

The therapeutic relationship itself is a regulatory intervention. Every attuned interaction, every moment of co-regulation, every session where a client feels truly seen. And that's integration happening in real time.

If you want to go deeper into the science behind this and walk away with practical tools you can use immediately, Dr. Siegel is teaching a FREE 4-hour live virtual training on April 28, 2026.

🧠 Inside Dr. Dan Siegel's 10 Most Powerful Clinical Tools
📅 April 28 | 11AM–3PM CST | FREE (valued at $199.99)
✔ The Hand Model of the Brain
✔ Widening the Window of Tolerance
✔ SIFT: Sensations, Images, Feelings, Thoughts
✔ The Wheel of Awareness
✔ The River of Integration and more

This is the only time Dr. Siegel is teaching this in 2026. CE hours available. Can't attend live? 14-day replay access is included.

👉 Register here: https://bit.ly/4bPIl9l

03/26/2026

This is why the work you do matters. 💙

Your presence, your attunement, your consistency — it all becomes the foundation your clients learn to stand on. That's not just therapy. That's healing at its deepest level.

Save this as a reminder of the impact you carry into every session. 🙌

And join us for a FREE 4-hour live training with Dr. Siegel himself on April 28 from 11AM–3PM CST. He'll share his 10 most powerful clinical tools for regulation, trauma recovery, and relational health.

🔗 Claim your FREE spot here: https://bit.ly/4bPIl9l

03/24/2026

We were trained to treat ADHD as a fixed neurological condition. Diagnose it. Manage it. Refer for medication. But what if that framework has been leaving both us and our clients stuck?

Gabor Maté's work in Scattered Minds offers something rare: a science-grounded, deeply humanizing account of how ADHD actually develops and what genuine healing can look like.

On May 12, he and Terry Matlen bring that framework to life in a free 3-hour virtual workshop designed for clinicians. If you've ever sensed there was more to the story with your ADHD clients, this is the training for you.

🔗 Register here: https://bit.ly/4rC2wwm

CE credit options available for mental health professionals.

03/23/2026

Our clients aren't broken. They're searching.
Every turbulent relationship, every unmet need, every push and pull in intimacy often traces back to what a child once desperately needed and never received.

Understanding this changes everything about how we sit with our clients. Less judgment. More curiosity. Deeper compassion. 💙

Drop a 🙋 if this reframes how you think about your clients' relationship patterns.