Counseling clients in their homes can be extremely beneficial- but only if you take appropriate cautions.
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How Social Media Can Get You In Trouble
Does your graduate program have a social media policy? If you are currently a student, you’ll want to know what the policy is before you post anything.
How To Optimize Your Time- Part II
We all need more time! In this post, I continue my list of suggestions on how to leverage your biology to optimize your day based on a recent article in Psychology Today (“Building The Perfect Day,” February 2015.)
How To Optimize Your Time – Part I
If you are like me, you are constantly looking for ways to do more with less time! What if we could gain some time each day simply by rearranging our schedule? Read on…
Five Ways To Success
You can be a great counselor: have great attending skills, a firm theoretical orientation, and excellent rapport…but if you don’t act professionally you could sabotage yourself! In this post, I will describe five ways to act professionally in the counseling profession. These are techniques you probably didn’t learn in your masters program.
What is Discernment Counseling?
If you have a mixed-agenda couple, the best way to work with them is to provide Discernment Counseling.
Discernment Counseling: What They Won’t Teach You
Struggling to help one of your couples? Seems like whatever you do it isn’t enough? You may have a mixed-agenda couple.
Legal Obligations With Deaf Clients
A recent discussion on the ACA (American Counseling Association) Open Forum caught my attention. Did you know that as a mental health provider you may be obligated to provide the costs for an interpreter for a deaf client?
Five Essential Interview Questions
I’ve written before on interviewing for intern sites, but in this post I’ll go into a bit more depth about what kind of questions interns should ask future employers.
LOL? Humor in the Therapy Room
LOL…or not? Humor can be an effective tool in the therapy room, but it must be used with caution.
