When Inside Out, the latest Pixar movie, was announced this past summer, I was excited to see how the writers would represent complex human inner experiences in a fun and child-friendly way. As a counseling psychology graduate student, I often find myself trying to explain concepts about emotions to children
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Most of us started our clinical careers not as managers but as line staff at local mental health programs, eventually working our way up to positions of more authority and responsibility. Some of us have worked very hard to learn the craft of nonprofit management, while others have simply transferred
For Gregory Moffatt, counseling and crime solving go hand in hand. Moffatt, a licensed professional counselor (LPC), runs a private practice in which he specializes in working with children who have experienced physical or sexual abuse. He is also a professor of counseling at Point University in West Point, Georgia.
As graduate students, we are excited about getting out there in the real world and making a difference. After all, we have spent the last several years in classes reading and role-playing situations. We are prepared, excited and full of hope. You could add that although we feel prepared to
When I first transitioned into a helping profession 25 years ago, I was moving from a short career in retail management. My motivation was to find some deeper meaning in my work and a sense of giving back to the world. I hoped that by working with individuals in crisis,
Who are the major influences on today’s counseling professionals? What voices, both within and outside of the profession, are counselors listening to and intently following? Recently, Counseling Today posed these questions to a random assortment of American Counseling Association members and a few select counseling leaders. The responses were as
Despite significant growth in the use of electronic health record (EHR)/practice management systems, some counselors still benefit from the use of stand-alone online scheduling programs. Whether it’s because their EHR systems don’t offer a client portal, they desire more robust scheduling features or they aren’t ready to take the full
I belong to a Facebook group that some of my former high school peers established. It’s been interesting to connect with so many of them and to hear about their lives now. A couple of people take the lead in posting information. They often include photos of our old high school,
At the end of March, thousands of professional counselors will gather in Montréal for ACA’s Conference & Expo, which is being held in partnership with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association. Professional counselors and counselor educators from many countries will attend to hear the latest practice and research information. I
Breast cancer touches all of our lives, and I am no exception. In February 1996, I went for my first mammogram. I was only 33 at the time, but I had read about the importance of having a baseline mammogram for early detection of breast cancer. Early detection meant cure, right? As a