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Continue reading →: Expectations for ourselves and our clients
As a new counselor we have all sorts of expectations. We have expectations for ourselves, how we “should” respond, what techniques and theories we “should” use, how quickly we “should get it” or conceptualize the problem, that we “should” be able to fix it, or help. We also get caught…
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Continue reading →: Letters to a Young Therapist
Letters to a Young Therapist, by Mary Pipher, is a novel that feels like a conversation with a supervisor who cares deeply for the work of helping people and is committed to guiding a novice through the tricky parts of counseling. I like the style of letters through each chapter. …
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Continue reading →: On the road to life…We experience ups and downs…good times and bad….blah, blah, blah! On the road to life, you are responsible for your actions, for your decisions, for the people you choose to surround yourself with. I believe there are many choices we make each day, and the more present we are in…
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Continue reading →: How to establish goals with a vague client in a collaborative manner.
Establishing goals with a client can sometimes be one of the most difficult parts of the relationship. When working at my internship site last year, I worked with folks who were working towards self-sufficiency. Even if we explained to them that counseling is part of the program during their intake process,…
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Continue reading →: Gestalt and Adlerian theory can help us understand life.
Gestalt therapy emphasizes the significance of restoring the wholeness of a person’s disembodied parts to create integration and balance. These “disembodied parts” are the source of a person’s difficulties in life, and bringing awareness to this imbalance supports change. Perls is quoted by Seligman (2010) describing the human organism, “We…
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Continue reading →: How do you know that you got it right?
I am close to graduation and completing my internship, I have the privilege to work with some amazing clients that are in recovery. So far, it has been an eye-opening learning experience. After class the other night, I started to reflect on a case conceptualization that we discussed in class. I began to…
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Continue reading →: Why is it?
Why is it that when we have nothing to do we want to do everything, and when we have too much to do we only want a slice of time to do nothing? Yet when given a chance at either, we still end up feeling disappointed? As I begin this…
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