Blogs and Free Resources
Here at PESI, our mission is to provide professionals like you with FREE practical and valuable tools, strategies,
and resources to assist with the great work you do. Find expert tips, helpful worksheets, demonstration videos, CE, news,
and more here. Happy learning!
Dr. Bessel van der Kolk on Interoception & Yoga
Effective Trauma Treatment
It’s frustrating when your client gets stuck — overwhelmed by fear, shame, helplessness...Here’s one solution that’s extremely effective in moving therapy forward.
Play Therapy Activities to Help Kids Achieve Greater Self-Regulation
Interventions based in Play Therapy and Mindfulness to understand and improve the world of children
Tracy Turner-Bumberry, LPC, RPT-S, CAS, shares simple, playful and on-point interventions that combines mindfulness, expressive arts and play to help kids achieve greater self-regulation, focus more and stress less.
Taming the Wild Things
Helping anxious kids and those trying to shield them from feelings of fear, insecurity, uncertainty, or discomfort.
Lynn Lyons, LICSW, shares how to override the demanding voice of anxiety.
PESI Book Club: October 2019
Four children-focused books to add to your reading list.
This month's suggested reads include four products to help improve the well-being of the children in your life.
Food Refusal? Try Food Exploring!
How to Help Kids Go Beyond Fast Food
Angela Mansolillo, MA/CCC-SLP, BCS-S, offers helpful tips for feeding therapists and their clients.
Leslie’s “Go-To” Granola Recipe
A Recipe to Improve Attention & Focus
Dr. Leslie Korn shares a brainpower-promoting recipe from her book, Eat Right, Feel Right.
Why We Must Think of Children—and our Nervous System—as Trees
Free Self-Regulation and Mindfulness Activity and Worksheets
Join Varleisha (Gibbs) Lyons, PhD, OTD, OTR/L, as she shares several transformative exercises for children and families challenged by sensory processing disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism spectrum disorder, and various other neurodevelopmental disorders.
5 Free Resources for Teachers
We're celebrating National Teacher Day by offering teachers FIVE of our best school-and teaching-related worksheets and videos...for FREE!
Access each resource below and feel free to share these free activities with all your teacher friends and family. #ThankATeacher
Self-Regulation Strategies & Techniques for Children with Autism, ADHD, and Sensory Processing Disorder
Plus Earn 1 Free CE Hour
Join Teresa Garland, occupational therapist, international speaker, and author, as she shares over 35 of her most effective interventions.
How to Teach a Child with Autism About Personal Space
FREE Video
In this brief video clip, Tara Delaney, MS, OTR/L, describes her easy-to-use method that helps children with autism understand and apply the concept of "personal space," which in turn helps them adapt more easily into social situations.