Free Resources for Therapists and Students

Inspired by our course Beyond Talk Therapy: Resolving the Double Binds of Modern Clinical Practice, these e-books are both a preview and a guide for early and mid career Clinicians seeking clarity amid the mixed messages of modern clinical training. It invites readers to better understand—and begin to resolve—the double binds they encounter as they transition from theory into practice.

Comprehensive Risk Assessment in Clinical Practice

Protecting Clients, Clinicians, and the Practice

Risk assessment is essential—and often fragmented.

This preview e-book of our 6-hour continuing education course gives clinicians a clear, integrated framework for assessing and managing risk across clients, clinicians, and the business of practice. Rather than focusing on client safety alone, the training addresses how burnout, boundary strain, documentation gaps, and organizational policies all interact with clinical risk.

Enjoy this free- e book preview of the course!

Ethical Pathways in Navigating Insurance is a 3-hour continuing education course designed to bring clarity to this complexity. Rooted in ACA, NASW, and AMHCA ethics codes and informed by current national data, the course helps clinicians thoughtfully evaluate insurance-based, private-pay, and hybrid practice models—without shame, dogma, or one-size-fits-all answers.

Rather than telling you what to choose, this course teaches you how to think ethically about insurance decisions, balancing client access with clinician sustainability and real-world practice constraints.

Not ready for the full training yet? Download the free Ethical Pathways in Navigating Insurance e-book, a reflective preview of the course that introduces the core ethical tensions, sample ethics-code interpretations, and guided reflection questions to help you clarify your own values.

No prescriptions. No guilt. Just ethical clarity—made practical.

Just click on the resource to download!

Inspired by our course Ethical Decision Making in Mental Health Treatment: Models, Mandates, and Confidence Building, this free eBook offers a practical and compassionate introduction to ethical decision-making, helping clinicians understand the difference between legal obligations, ethical principles, and personal values—without judgment or fear-based teaching.

Download the free eBook and start building ethical confidence.

Career Paths: Beyond the Couch is a free guide created for therapists who are curious about what’s possible beyond traditional clinical roles. It encourages clinicians to recognize the breadth of their skills and explore new career paths that align with their values and strengths. Be sure to download the companion workbook as well!

Therapists care deeply. About clients, about ethics, about justice, about doing good work in a broken system. And lately, that care is spilling out everywhere — especially online.

I’ve been watching more and more clinicians try to “advocate” by calling each other out on social media: not being political enough in session, being too political, not having strong enough boundaries, having too many boundaries. It’s exhausting, divisive, and honestly? It’s not moving the profession forward.

This isn’t because therapists don’t care. It’s because most of us were never taught what real advocacy in our profession actually looks like.

We were trained to treat. To listen. To hold space. We were not trained to navigate licensure law, regulatory power, policy change, or systems-level influence. And we work in a profession that has historically rewarded self-sacrifice and compliance, not boundary-setting or collective action.

So clinicians do what they know how to do: they speak passionately, emotionally, and publicly — often without access to the systems where change actually happens.

This guide exists to close that gap.

Advocacy does not require being loud, chronically online, or politically savvy. It requires understanding systems, choosing leverage points, and taking intentional action — often quietly, consistently, and collectively.

This is a practical guide for therapists who want to advocate ethically, effectively, and sustainably.