Female mentorship can help women in counseling better navigate the barriers they face and improve their psychosocial and clinical growth.
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Professional Issues
Counseling leaders face difficult choices when they work in an environment where the organizational values clash with their own personal and professional ones.
Counselors can use these five tips to optimize their therapist directory profile and grow their business.
Digital mental health has been touted as a solution to filling the mental health access gap, but do these platforms really provide access for all?
Stigma surrounding mental illness may linger as the elephant in the room and negatively affect client outcomes if counselors don’t recognize and address it in session.
The fact that counselors are, by nature, helpers and are often willing to give freely of their time does not mean that they should be treated unfairly as a labor force.
Counselors will inevitably be confronted by countertransference, but by learning to recognize and manage it, an experience that has sometimes been stigmatized can become a tool for professional and personal growth.
Thanks to the popularity of social media postings about mental health and the ease of searching for symptoms online, more people are being tempted to self-diagnose, but is that necessarily a troubling trend for counselors?
The next generation of counseling leaders and advocates “must embrace the complex issues facing our clients, the profession as a whole, and our national and global societies if we are to advance and continue to distinguish excellence in professional counseling.”
“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?”