If there were ever a time when our communities, nation and world needed the amazing work of professional counselors, it is now.
Month: March 2021
Professional counselors possess a multitude of skills. We are practitioners, educators, business owners, executives, writers, authors and researchers. We observe, measure/assess, question, adapt and a whole lot more.
Landing that first job after graduation is rarely without challenges, but what happens when the beginning of your counseling career coincides with a global pandemic?
Our ability to cope with stress, frustrations, anger, relationship problems and grief — all magnified by the pandemic — is based on multiple strategies working together. The more the load is shared, the better.
Counselors who enter private practice often find themselves confronting the push and pull between their desire to provide empathic, client-focused care and the need to turn a profit.
Counseling clients for a reduced fee or for free – pro bono – in a private practice setting comes with some ethical caveats.
The truth is that even when it is safe to resume previous activities, it will never be the same. It can’t be. Too much has happened.
Counselors, what’s on your bookshelf? The good books you read offer the same opportunity as therapy does: to connect with your emotions and your humanity.
A merging of chronology and genogram pushes clients toward rich insights regarding the identity of key moments in their lives and the reasons behind them.
It is important for counselors to stop and consider whether their perspectives and patterns are forging paths of regret or paths of health and healing.