How Embracing Self-Determination Can Unburden a Therapist By Alicia Kwande As a therapist, you’ve probably all said it at least once, “I’m going into this field because I want to help people.” Yet, once you enter the counseling room, the helping can start to look very different than what you imagined. Clients come to youRead more
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Counseling Older Adults: How Erikson’s Theory Can Help You Better Conceptualize Clients By Alicia Kwande As a clinician who works with older adults, whether as your specialty or within a mix of other populations, you have likely encountered people that are struggling with despair in this stage of life. Erik Erikson posited that we go throughRead more
What To Do When You Feel You’ve Failed as a Counselor By Alicia Kwande As a therapist, it seems to come for us all at one time or another; the inevitable “failures.” Sometimes there are seemingly small things: you tried an intervention that fell flat; a client doesn’t return to see you. And there areRead more
