As COVID-19 is ramping up here in Colorado, therapists' phones are ringing off the hook with old clients wanting to re-connect and new clients wanting their first appointments. It happened this way during the AIDS epidemic. It happened this way during the aftermath of 9-11 and the Katrina {...}
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Interviews | Guest Posts
The Real Value Of Peer Consultation In Private Practice
Jeffrey Kottler writes in his book On Being a Therapist about the hypocrisy of our profession in asking our clients to do what we are unwilling to do ourselves - to make ourselves vulnerable and to ask for and accept help.
While still in graduate school, I was invited to join my colleague and her {...}
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What Every Therapist Needs To Know About Service And Emotional Support Animals
In 2017, when I was looking for someone to write a guest post for therapists highlighting the difference between service and emotional support animals, Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Rehabilitation Counselor Kimberly R. Duff offered to step up and take on the task.
Kimberly is {...}
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How to Help When Your Colleague Dies
Over the last few years, I've heard of several of our colleagues dying.
Each time, I know, there is a back story related to how those individual therapists planned . . . or didn't plan for their wishes concerning the continuity of client care.
Every professional code of ethics for mental health {...}
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