When working with individuals who have experienced either “small t” or “large T” trauma, it is essential to engage them in action-based responses that provide a healing alternative to the fight, flight or freeze reaction.
Month: October 2020
When almost everyone is practicing isolation or experiencing its effects to some degree, how do counselors assess and respond to isolating behaviors among their clients?
Counselors don’t have to work for organizations that are strictly veteran service providers to gain a knowledge base to work with military clients.
The road to recovery is rarely smooth, but counselors can help clients process the pitfalls that led them to addiction and avoid the potholes that can lead to relapse.
Presidential elections always inspire strong feelings such as anticipation, a sense of hope and sometimes anger, but the pandemic and general chaos of 2020 have tightened the public’s tension. Voters are looking to counselors to help them cope with their anxiety and fear.
ACA recently held a briefing on racism, police reform and mental health for association members, legislative staff and advocates who are working on bills currently before the 116th Congress.
Counselors can create spaces for individuals to work through feelings of guilt, shame, helplessness, hopelessness and fear associated with simply surviving from day to day.
Are your clients struggling with active communication? How social media and the pandemic are contributing to this challenge and how we as counselors can address it.
“I know that in my prior life of poor self-care, I could not have weathered this current hurricane. Today I’m so strong, even though daily I’m feeling vulnerable and battered.”
A “psychedelic renaissance” is occurring in the research and treatment fields but without the counseling profession’s voice or values being heard and integrated.