Home visits come with many potential challenges, but the ease and accessibility may make all the difference to the client.
Tag: Voice of Experience
Obtaining a professional counseling license should be the beginning of supervision and self-growth, not the end of it.
The mental health profession has come a long way in the past 100 years, but where is it headed?
Third-culture kids grow up in a diverse cultural environment — one that can have positive and negative effects on their mental health.
Counselors can help clients discover healthy ways to fulfill their human need for intimacy.
Telebehavioral health emerges as one positive change in a post-pandemic world.
Counselors: Consider keeping this metaphor in your back pocket to help clients understand grief, addictions, trauma and other challenges that seem to linger — no matter how much you want them to go away and stop “barking.”
Counselors sometimes have a “gut feeling” that a session with a client went really well or the therapeutic relationship is clicking. But the client doesn’t always feel the same way.
We master our craft by working with the hardest clients, facing the most difficult ethical problems and pushing ourselves professionally in every area. You will never sharpen a knife with a soft piece of wood, and you will never sharpen your skills by taking the path of least resistance.
There is a frightening truth in our profession: After we leave our graduate programs and finish supervision, nobody is there to tell us what to do. It is up to us to focus on ethics and, sadly, this is where things start slipping.