Apr 27, 2023
Join me as I discuss the importance of prioritizing important events or needs in your life and having a plan for unexpected situations in your work as a therapist. I’ll discuss a personal experience in which I chose to put work on hold to care for a family member with a serious illness. I’ll also share some lessons...
Apr 20, 2023
The sexual and intimacy issues our clients share in therapy sessions are an important part of our work. Yet most of us did not get training in our graduate programs about how to have these conversations, much less the fact that this is a topic that will likely come up often in our work. Nor do we get training about how...
Apr 13, 2023
This case involves a client who is not following the clinician’s recommendation regarding getting substance abuse counseling. We assess the dynamics of whether or not to continue working with this client without this needed support. We discuss this from the perspective of the clinician and their skillset, as well as...
Apr 6, 2023
Today, we'll discuss how to practice therapy while staying true to who we are as individuals. We learned a lot in graduate school that, in theory, is significant and serves as excellent advice for making moral and ethical judgments. While we are instructed to enter the therapeutic relationship as a therapist as a blank...