Moving forward, ACA must take what it learned from operating during a pandemic to maximize the services, resources, representation and advocacy we provide to the counseling profession. We do this so that you can better serve your clients, students and communities.
Category: Counseling Today
There are many reasons why our clients deceive us, but a common one is because they are testing our trustworthiness. How easy it is to test us with one story when there is a much more important story they really need to tell.
We must all become queer-competent counselors and the agents of change in our increasingly progressive field.
Counselors share what it is like to experience the world as a Black person while working in a profession that remains predominantly white.
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy says the key to increasing vaccination rates is for people who are uncertain about the COVID-19 vaccine to hear from people they trust, including professional counselors.
Trauma doesn’t have to revolve around a large-scale, life-shattering event to have a profound and negative effect on clients’ mental health.
Why isn’t mental health therapy more affordable?
The addition of providing mental health services in urgent/immediate care facilities would expand exposure and treatment to reduce the prevalence of mental health disorders —disorders that cost billions financially through expenditures and loss of work.
Allow discomfort to be part of your experience. Welcome it fully from the heart center. At the core of your pain or fear, you will grow and you will learn.
Through first understanding the narratives and other barriers that discourage survivors from disclosing, counselors can provide a foundation of support and empowerment that leads clients toward healing.