How to Attract Adolescents as Your Ideal Client
Is your ideal client adolescents? Q&A was part of Next Level Practice, the most supportive community for therapists starting a private practice. In this video,…
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Key to Happiness: Take Ownership of Your S#*!
Often times, whether it’s my clinical work or my consulting work, I see that people are having a hard time taking ownership of the…
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Expectations and Flexibility
After returning from winter break, our kids had some issues waking up in the morning for school. If you are a parent or work…
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Motherhood, Money, And Private Practice
How did I start? Like the lyrics of a famous Frank Sinatra song, “I did it my way”. I started my solo private practice,…
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PoP 212 | Boss Mom Dana Malstaff Wants You to Find Your Movement Story
Today, Joe Sanok speaks with Dana Malstaff who wants you to find your movement story. Podcast Sponsor We’ve created a conference where introverts…
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7 Ways To Help Your Children Grieve Your Divorce
Divorce can be very disorienting to children. They are confused, sad, and angry. Often children of divorce feel powerless as so much of their…
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What is a Parenting Coordinator?
A Parenting Coordinator (or PCs as they are commonly referred to) is a relatively new concept to help families in high conflict divorces. PC’s…
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11 Reasons Why Your Divorce Needs a Parenting Coordinator
Divorce can be traumatic for the entire family. Those families that find themselves in court over and over again fighting over their Parenting Plan…
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How Divorce Mediation Training Helped My Co-parenting Counseling
Coparenting counseling / coaching can be awkward, messy, and combative. Divorce Mediation taught me a lot about working through those impasses with divorced couples….
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5 Key Strategies For a Single Mom To Grow a Successful Private Practice
Going from a stay-at-home mom: picking up carpools, volunteering at the schools, helping with homework, and cooking dinner; to a single mom starting her…
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Uncomfortable Conversations: Talking To Your Teenage Daughter About Sex
Talking to girls about sex today has changed a lot, since I was a teenager! As a counselor and mom of three daughters, I…
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Balancing Motherhood and A Play Therapy Practice
Starting a new private practice was an easy decision. I had three babies in thirteen months. I have a social work degree. For me,…
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Play Therapy As a Private Practice Niche
Ever considered making play therapy your private practice niche? Do you wonder if it is really worth the energy or investment of time and…
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Podcast 104 | Speaking Tips and Five Tips to Optimize the Middle Schooler Brain
Why should you speak? Why should you network? What are the best ways to communicate to an audience that may refer to you or…
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Podcast 92: Reforming adoption and foster care, an interview with Drew and Emily Hale
For Emily and Drew Hale foster care and adoption is at the center of their relationship. Today’s Private Practice Sponsor Brighter Vision is the worldwide…
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Podcast 53: How to publish a children’s book | An interview with Kristy Kurjan
Today’s Private Practice Podcast resource (and sponsor): Legendary Lion What does the podcast mean to you? Leave me a message on Speakpipe Meet Kristy Kurjan…
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Becoming an Autism Expert: An interview with Janeen Herskovitz, LMHC
Today’s Private Practice Resource is the brand new project I’m working on, sign up for the newsletter for exclusive content, chapters, and checklists to…
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How to Improve Kid’s Sleep | 10 resources to help kids sleep
How to Improve Kid’s Sleep As parents, we want to stay educated and up-to-date on what best helps our kids learn, grow, and thrive….
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You’re not going to believe what this infographic says about parenting!
With so much parenting advice, here’s a parenting infographic that should get you started. www.MentalWellnessParenting.com/book …
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Practice of the Practice Podcast with Joe Sanok episode 020 | An interview with Candace Gingrich-Jones from the Human Rights Campaign
by Joseph R. Sanok Practice of the Practice with Joe Sanok episode 020 | An interview with Candace Gingrich-Jones from the Human Rights Campaign…
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PRAXIS | A guest blog from Isaac Morehouse: reinventing education, business, and the world
I have known Isaac Morehouse since 2000. Isaac is a thought leader, innovator and entrepreneur. In a sense we both grew into our…
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What my wife is worth | An infographic about stay-at-home moms
I am often asked, “Does your wife work?” She is a “play-at-home”/ “stay-at-home” mom. Of course she works! But I was wondering, if she…
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FREE BOOKS!
Today only (August 13, 2013) you can get all of my books for free on Amazon! Today is my 9th anniversary and it’s my…
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Pills and Thrills | Why Attention Issues Disappear in Crisis
Recently I was running a therapeutic sailing program and our engine died. Now the boat we are on is a traditionally rigged old wooden…
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Practice of the Practice Podcast with Joe Sanok Session 013 | How to help angry kids and frustrated parents with new parenting approaches
by Joseph R. Sanok Practice of the Practice Podcast with Joe Sanok Session 013 | How to help angry kids and frustrated parents with new…
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Improve Kid’s Behavior in Two Steps
Kids are more likely to work toward something positive than avoid something negative. This is key to any parenting program. When a parent understands…
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Podcast 009 | Interview with The Digital Diet Guy, Mark Ostach. Passive income | Internet Use Disorder | Digital Addiction
by Joseph R. Sanok Summary Joseph R. Sanok: Counselor, Private Practice Owner, Consultant, Marketing Expert, and Blogger The Practice of the Practice Podcast: Counseling…
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How to love your job
It all started when I was at a meeting with my mother-in-law. She was invited due to her background in sailing. There were four…
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The Teen Brain
“All teenagers are risk-takers, moody, and get embarrassed by their parents.” “They are angry and hate adults.” “They only listen to their friends.” Are these statements…
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Helicopter Parents Gone Wild
A “helicopter parent” is a parent who hovers over their child, waiting to catch them before they skin their knee. “Helicopter Parents” schedule, plan,…
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More ways to help angry kids
In my last article “How to Help Angry Kids” I talked about a number of treatment approaches to help kids that have anger issues….
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Parenting and stepping back
There are so many factors that go into parenting. It seems that every friend, website, magazine, and blog is telling you how to…
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How to help angry kids
A clinician I consult with asked me a question. I asked him if I could post his question and my reply (without confidential information)….
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