Our Search for Meaning in a Pandemic World

As mental health counselors, my colleagues and I are seeing firsthand the psychological consequences of this COVID-19 pandemic health crisis. Clients who were previously coping with psychological disorders have felt…

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Teletherapy – We Are Here

Life has taken an abrupt shift for all of us in the rapidly unfolding COVID-19 pandemic. While you are most certainly not alone, this experience can feel very isolating. The…

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Carl Rogers: On Becoming a Person

This year marks 50 years since I first began to counsel clients as a supervised psychotherapist in training.  That was at DePaul University Graduate School in the Counseling Psychology Master’s…

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Reclaiming Your Story after Complex Trauma

One challenge that clients sometimes face in counseling is deciding whether they want to go deeper in the treatment process than was initially anticipated necessary. At times, the counselor may…

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