Starting a new career in counseling later in life taught one new counseling professional a few important lessons.
Tag: Students Audience (Grad/post-grad)
Students Audience
A counselor offers guidance on how to navigate difficult interactions in the workplace.
“If you’re a counselor-in-training, licensed clinician or healer looking for an article to share when you’re too tired to explain to a loved one what’s going on for you, here’s that link.”
Three counselors share lessons learned so that other clinicians can enter private practice with eyes wide open — both to the challenges and the opportunities.
“All it takes is a sincere and genuine email to open a conversation with someone you admire and want to work for. Who knows what will happen?”
The promise of the therapeutic relationship is at the center of client change, but it also provides a North Star to counseling interns and other beginning counselors who are still trying to find their way.
Inside the walls of a therapy office, there is not a single human on this planet who is (or would have been) the best therapist for everyone. Do not be anxious about all the things you are not as a counselor; rather, stand tall in exactly what you are.
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?
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.
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.