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Counseling

Counseling resources for counselors and practitioners who want to apply the latest positive psychology strategies or ready-to-apply tools.

Youth Counseling

Youth Counseling: 17 Courses & Activities for Helping Teens

From a maturing body and brain to developing life skills and values, the teen years can be challenging, and mental health concerns may arise. Teens [...]

Counseling session planning

How To Plan Your Counseling Session: 6 Examples

Planning is crucial in a counseling session to ensure that time inside–and outside–therapy sessions is well spent, with the client achieving a successful outcome within [...]

Counseling techniques

65+ Counseling Methods & Techniques to Apply With Your Clients

Counselors have found it challenging to settle on a single definition of their profession or agree on the best counseling methods and techniques to treat [...]

Counseling Interventions

22 Best Counseling Interventions & Strategies for Therapists

When individuals arrive for counseling, they typically seek change, clarity, advice, and help to overcome their difficulties. Counseling is highly beneficial, with “far-reaching effects in [...]

Divorce counseling

Divorce Counseling & Therapy: Best Worksheets & Techniques

Couples often attend relationship counseling when they are trying to save their marriage. If they can’t fix the relationship, or one or both partners have [...]

Counseling forms

20 Useful Counseling Forms & Templates for Your Practice

Counseling has many definitions and approaches, but most recognize the significance of the therapeutic relationship (Nelson-Jones, 2014). Part of this relationship includes building an appropriate [...]

Counseling courses

25 Best Counseling Courses, Degrees, and Online Programs

Decisions, decisions! Navigating the waters to become a counselor can be murky. Deciding which counseling course to take is like sailing a ship in the [...]

Mindfulness in therapy

Mindfulness in Counseling: 8 Best Techniques & Interventions

In the last few decades, there has been a growing interest in mindfulness among health care professionals. The importance of mindfulness in the healing process [...]

Counseling techniques

22 Best Counseling Techniques & Tools of All Time (+PDF)

Counseling can be incredibly helpful for individuals seeking to overcome troublesome problems or figuring out how to live according to their values and long-term goals [...]

Motivation Counseling

Motivation in Counseling: 9 Steps to Engage Your Clients

Client motivation is crucial to a successful outcome in counseling and heavily influenced by an underlying perception of autonomy (Ryan et al., 2010). While many [...]