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06/11/2026

Building a treatment plan from scratch takes forever — so we built 3 for you. 🗂️
3 real treatment plan examples for substance use: → Opioid use disorder → Alcohol use disorder → Cannabis use disorder
Each one includes a DSM-5 diagnosis, SMART goals, CBT + motivational interviewing interventions, MAT, and relapse prevention — all in one template.
Comment "PLAN" below or hit the link in bio to grab the free template from Mentalyc. 👇

06/10/2026

First rule of being a therapist: Never tell a stranger your job. 🤫

The second they find out, a casual chat instantly turns into an unpaid 45-minute intake session about their toxic ex. If only we could turn on Mentalyc out in the wild to write the SOAP note! 😭

Stop letting documentation take over your life—both inside and outside the office. Let Mentalyc’s HIPAA-compliant AI handle your progress notes in seconds so you can actually enjoy your time off.

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If you work with clients struggling with substance use — save this. :bookmark:A well-structured drug abuse treatment pla...
06/09/2026

If you work with clients struggling with substance use — save this. :bookmark:
A well-structured drug abuse treatment plan is one of the most important tools you have. It sets clear goals, tracks progress, and keeps the whole care team aligned.
But writing them from scratch every time? Time-consuming.
We put together a free substance abuse treatment plan template + 3 real worked examples (Opioid Use Disorder, Alcohol Use Disorder, Cannabis Use Disorder) on the Mentalyc blog.
→ Comment “PLAN” and we’ll send you the link, or visit the link in bio to read the full guide.

Your 22-year-old client keeps coming back to:"I have to be exceptional or I'm nothing."New research analyzing 35 years o...
06/04/2026

Your 22-year-old client keeps coming back to:

"I have to be exceptional or I'm nothing."

New research analyzing 35 years of data from more than 82,000 college students found that perfectionism has been steadily rising since 1989.

The strongest predictor wasn't social media.

It was economic inequality.

As inequality increases, fear of failure and fear of others' judgment become more central to how young adults evaluate themselves. The pressure to be exceptional isn't just personal—it reflects the environment they're navigating.

That doesn't remove the value of clinical work.

But it may change how we understand the thought when it appears in session.

Swipe through for the research and what it means in the therapy room. ↓

Some clients don't want to celebrate their birthday. They want permission to survive it. Grief doesn't take days off — a...
05/30/2026

Some clients don't want to celebrate their birthday. They want permission to survive it. Grief doesn't take days off — and for clients carrying loss, a birthday isn't just a birthday. It's a math problem: who's missing this year. But a Psychology Today essay from a therapist who's lived it offers a reframe worth having in your back pocket. Savoring, meaning-making, ritual — these aren't toxic positivity.
They're what the grief literature actually backs. The clinical move isn't to fix the day. It's to ask what the client wants the day to mean. Swipe through for what this means in the therapy room.
Follow us for weekly research breakdowns built for therapists.

Your clients aren't "stuck in the past."Their brain is predicting it — over and over again.New research on the REBUS mod...
05/28/2026

Your clients aren't "stuck in the past."
Their brain is predicting it — over and over again.
New research on the REBUS model (Free Energy Principle) explains why trauma doesn't just fade with time: the brain runs on weighted predictions, and after trauma, those priors can become too rigid to update — even when the evidence says otherwise.
That's not avoidance. That's a systems problem.
Psychedelics are showing promise precisely because they temporarily flatten those top-down priors — opening a window for new information to actually land.
Swipe through for what this means in the therapy room. ↓
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05/22/2026

the hardest part of documentation isn't writing the note.
it's holding the full clinical picture across weeks. across months.
a client mentions something in intake. a pattern shows up three sessions later. progress shifts gradually. and if your notes live in disconnected pieces — you end up rebuilding context every single time.
mentalyc helps keep the thread visible. from intake to treatment plan to progress note — so session themes are easier to follow, and nothing important slips through.
your notes already have the insights. this is just about being able to see them clearly.
link in bio to try it free 💜

05/22/2026

this is what our therapists tell us 💜
“treatment plans used to drain me. trying to hold the full picture of every client and translate it into a clinical roadmap… for every single person.
mentalyc changed that. what it generates is good — i’m barely editing. i mostly use it to sit with my client and say: here’s where we are, here’s where we’re going.
that moment makes it worth it.”
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Your clients are convinced something is wrong with their brain.The research says: probably not.“Attention spans are shri...
05/21/2026

Your clients are convinced something is wrong with their brain.
The research says: probably not.
“Attention spans are shrinking” is one of the most repeated stories in mental health — and one of the least supported by actual lab data.
Researchers at UChicago and UCL found that what’s changing is task-switching behavior and the felt pull of distraction — not raw attentional capacity.
The distress your clients bring is real. The deficit usually isn’t what they think it is.
Swipe through for what the data actually shows — and how it changes the conversation in session. ↓

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