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Tiny Trainings for Therapists - Modalities and Techniques Collection
by Candice Hamilton-Miller, RP
Graduate training provides exposure to theoretical frameworks and practice in specific modalities. It rarely provides a framework for thinking about integration. This volume covers the principles of intentional eclecticism, how to evaluate whether your combination of approaches is coherent or merely familiar, how to build an integration rationale, and how to move between modalities without losing theoretical clarity.
The question most therapists with several years of clinical experience find themselves unable to fully answer is not how to use the approaches they have learned — it is how to use them together. Graduate training provides exposure to frameworks and practice in modalities. It rarely provides a framework for integration.
The gap is not trivial. In a field where the evidence increasingly supports therapeutic flexibility, haphazard borrowing from multiple approaches is genuinely different from principled, intentional integration. This book is about that difference.
What this book covers:
- What intentional eclecticism is — and what it is not
- Common integration errors: theoretical inconsistency, intervention drift, comfort-based modality selection
- The integration rationale: how to articulate why you are combining approaches
- How to evaluate whether your current integration is serving the client or your own familiarity
- Moving between modalities within a session without losing the clinical thread
- Integration across phases of treatment: how the mix should shift as therapy progresses
- Documentation of eclectic practice: how to write notes that reflect genuine clinical reasoning
- Responding to supervision questions about your theoretical orientation
- Building a personal theoretical framework that is coherent, flexible, and revisable
The goal is not theoretical purity. It is theoretical clarity — the ability to articulate what you are doing, why you are doing it, and what you expect it to accomplish.
Tiny Trainings for Therapists — Modalities and Techniques Collection:
Tiny Trainings for Therapists are short, focused, practice-based readings for mental health professionals who want to deepen their clinical reasoning one topic at a time. Each book isolates a single clinical concern and works through it the way a thoughtful supervisor would: explaining the reasoning behind decisions, illustrating with realistic clinical examples and therapist phrasing, and naming what clinicians tend to miss. They are not textbooks, coaching books, or self-help. They read like a clinical supervision session written down, and most can be finished in a few focused sittings.
Each print edition includes a CE Self-Study Pack: a structured set of reflection prompts, applied clinical exercises, and an implementation plan offering approximately two to three hours of self-study continuing education. The ebook edition does not include the CE Self-Study Pack; it can be purchased and downloaded separately.
The Modalities and Techniques Collection examines particular therapeutic approaches and methods, and how to use them with judgment rather than as rigid protocol.
Every modality is a tool, and like any tool it works when it fits the task and the hand using it. A clinician who knows a method but not when it fits, or how to adapt it to a particular client, ends up applying it mechanically and wondering why it underperforms. This collection treats modalities and techniques as something to understand from the inside: how the approach works, what it assumes, what makes it a good fit, and what a clinician needs to hold in mind to use it well.
Each book takes a specific modality or technique and works through it with clinical depth. It covers the reasoning behind the approach, the clients and presentations it suits, the moments it is the right choice and the moments it is not, and how to apply it flexibly rather than as a script. The emphasis throughout is on judgment: choosing the approach deliberately, adapting it to the client in front of you, and recognising when a different method would serve the work better.
The books also name what clinicians tend to miss: treating a modality as an identity rather than a tool, applying a technique because it is familiar rather than because it fits, and underestimating how much the client's particular profile should shape how a method is delivered.
This collection is written for clinicians who want to expand their range of approaches and use the ones they already know more skilfully, and for supervisees building a versatile, well-reasoned toolkit. The supervision-informed voice keeps the focus on practical application and clinical decision-making rather than theory for its own sake.
Whether you are learning a new approach or sharpening one already in regular use, this collection offers depth without overwhelm: one modality or technique, one short book, one focused step toward more deliberate practice.
Written by Candice Hamilton-Miller, RP, a Registered Psychotherapist and clinical supervisor based in Ontario, Canada.
From insight to intention to change.
Candice is a seasoned psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, and educator with nearly three decades of experience supporting clients across the lifespan—from young children to older adults navigating complex life transitions. Her work has spanned schools, hospitals, community settings, and private practice, giving her a deeply integrated and practical understanding of mental health care. Known for her grounded, human approach to therapy, Candice blends clinical expertise with lived experience, emphasizing presence, curiosity, and authentic connection over rigid adherence to any single modality. Her work is rooted in ethical, client-centered care and an intentionally eclectic framework that adapts to the unique needs of each individual. In addition to her clinical work, Candice has spent years supervising and mentoring therapists at all stages of their careers. Through this work, she recognized a gap between what therapists are taught in formal training and what they actually need in the therapy room. This insight became the foundation for her writing. Candice is the author of The Tiny Training for Therapists Series, along with a growing collection of clinical training resources designed to support therapists in building practical, ethical, and confident practices. She also writes a wide range of accessible mental health resources for clients of all ages, translating therapeutic concepts into language that is clear, relatable, and usable in everyday life. Her work is not intended to prescribe one “right” way to practice, but to offer a flexible, experience-based toolbox—bridging the gap between theory and real-world clinical work. Through her practice, CHM Therapy Services, as well as her online platform for clients, called Mindful Humans Studio, and clinical online platform, The Therapist Circle, Candice continues to work closely with both clients and therapists, with a focus on developing skilled, self-aware practitioners and creating resources that make therapy more accessible, human, and effective for everyone.
Tiny Trainings for Therapipsts - Foundations Collection
The most effective therapists in the room are often doing something that is hard to name. This Tiny Training makes it nameable. The Therapist's Bag of Tricks covers the invisible session engine: timing, pacing, therapeutic interruption, deepening moves, and the micro-decisions that create the conditions for clinical change without relying on technique delivery alone.
Tiny Trainings for Therapists - Conceptualization Collection
The visible work of therapy is possible only because of an enormous amount of invisible activity running underneath it. This volume covers the parallel cognitive track that experienced clinicians run alongside relational presence: building and revising formulation hypotheses in real time, reading clinical data across verbal and nonverbal channels, holding uncertainty without losing direction, and making the micro-decisions that turn information into intervention.
Tiny Trainings for Therapists - Conceptualization Collection
When therapy stalls, the easy explanation is motivation. The more accurate explanation is usually something else: a protective structure, an identity anchor, a pattern that is doing exactly what it was designed to do. This volume maps five distinct mechanisms that each produce the presenting picture of a stuck client, covering individual presentations across the lifespan, adolescent stuckness, and systemic stuckness in couples and family contexts.
When the Skatepark Becomes the Therapy Room
"What do all the kids at the skate park know about courage, failure, and getting back up that most of us spend our entire lives trying to figure out?
Skate Therapy is a framework, a metaphor, and a practice — three things at once — for using skateboarding's embodied philosophy in clinical and educational work. Drawing on exposure work, narrative therapy, somatic approaches, cognitive-behavioral methods, polyvagal theory, attachment theory, and the research on play, mastery, and identity, this book takes seriously what skate culture has been teaching its kids implicitly for sixty years: that fear is information, that the ground is safety, that you act before you feel ready, that the basics are the destination, and that you do not regulate yourself — you regulate yourself through other people.
Each chapter pairs a principle from skate culture with the therapeutic concept that lives underneath it, grounded in research and in the lived practice of two composite teenagers — Adam, who cannot drop in, and Quinn, who cannot fill out the scholarship application — who teach each other across a single summer what an entire field has been trying to articulate for a century.
For clinicians, parents, teachers, coaches, and anyone who has ever been stuck at the top of their own bowl. The work is already happening. Everything you need is already under the wheels of your board.
Here, you try again."
The Workshop Series and Facilitator's Companion Guide
Most kids don't need to be told to try harder. They need to be shown how to fail without it becoming the whole story.
Grit on a Board is a twelve-lesson resilience workshop for children ages 7–12, built on what the skate park already knows about falling, getting up, and going again. Designed for camp counsellors, teachers, youth workers, and clinicians alike, it pairs a practical curriculum with a facilitator’s companion explaining the psychology underneath every lesson.
A Caregiver's guide to Navigating ARFID
"Tiny Bites, Big Fellings: A Caregiver's guide to Navigating ARFID
You have probably been told to try harder. To offer more variety. To not make it a big deal. You have probably also watched those strategies make everything worse.
This book was written for you.
Supporting Your Child with ARFID is a comprehensive guide for parents and caregivers navigating avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder — written by a registered psychotherapist who is also an ARFID parent. That combination matters. The clinical knowledge in these pages is grounded in the real experience of sitting at a table where every meal is a negotiation, every birthday party is a logistical challenge, and every well-meaning family member is a variable you can't control.
This guide covers: what ARFID actually is and how to explain it to others; why common approaches fail and what works instead; how to navigate schools, medical providers, and clinical teams; how to protect family relationships, partnerships, and siblings; practical meal strategies that reduce pressure without increasing rigidity; how to support your child's autonomy and self-advocacy; and how to take care of yourself while caring for a child with complex needs.
This book does not promise a cure. It does not offer a meal plan or a trick to get your child to eat more. What it offers is understanding — a clear explanation of what is happening in your child's nervous system and how to respond to it in a way that builds safety rather than resistance.
You are not failing. You are navigating something genuinely hard. This book walks with you."
Tiny Trainings For Therapists - Foundations Collection
Every therapist brings a self into the room. The question is not whether that self is present — it always is — but whether you know enough about it to choose what to do with it. Drawing from real supervision group conversations, this volume covers trigger identification, countertransference as clinical data, deliberate use of personal experience, scope-of-practice as self-protection, and what genuine self-care looks like for working clinicians. Honest, grounded, and supervision-informed throughout.