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    10 Simple Therapist Mental Health Strategies in 10 Minutes or Less

    For any therapist, mental health is crucial—and that includes prioritizing your own mental health and self-care. In fact, taking care … Continued

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    How Does Aging Affect Mental Health?

    After losing her husband, my 71-year-old aunt’s world shrunk. Admittedly, she wasn’t in stellar physical health, but grief compounded by … Continued

    Female therapist who needs help learning how to overcome procrastination falls asleep at their desk

    How Therapists Can Reclaim Work-Life Balance

    Work-life balance, work-life integration, or work-life harmony. However you define your ideal, symbiotic relationship between work and your personal life, … Continued

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    Clients Who Threaten and Stalk Therapists – How to Stay Safe

    The overwhelming majority of those with mental illness will never become violent. That said, it’s also true that therapists can … Continued

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    4 Keys to Balancing Life and Work as a Therapist

    Balancing personal life and work may seem challenging for therapists running private practices, but these tips will help. Four tips … Continued

    A mother bonding with her baby, postpartum. Coping with and addressing postpartum mood disorders, or other mental health concerns, is key to the new parents' and baby's health.

    Recognizing Postpartum Mood Disorders and Psychiatric Disorders

    We’ve all seen the commercials for diapers and other baby products that depict postpartum life for moms and newborns as … Continued

    A therapist goes to therapy for herself, she sits next to her therapist who is listening intently.

    5 Tips for Therapists Who Are Seeking Their Own Therapists

    Over the next few years, the demand for mental health care is expected to increase in the United States. Data … 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

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    8 Free Guided Meditations for Therapist Self-Care

    Between sessions, writing progress notes, and dealing with insurance and invoices, being a behavioral health clinician isn’t easy. It can … Continued

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