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.
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Risk Management
Death by Suicide – The Resources Therapists Need to Know
As a Licensed Professional Counselor and Approved Clinical Supervisor, I often speak with mental health professionals who have been touch by suicide - through their own families and social circles, through their clients and their clients' families, and - yes - some of you psychotherapists who are {...}
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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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Counselors Talking Out Of School Or . . . What Not To Say Online
Long gone are the days when professional counselors could ethically speak publically about their clients simply by stripping away all of the identifying information.
These days, discussing a client at all - with or without identifying information - is not only unethical, it is also considered to {...}
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