Counseling
Counseling resources for counselors and practitioners who want to apply the latest positive psychology strategies or ready-to-apply tools.
17 Schema Therapy Books to Improve Your Counseling Skills
Therapists often turn to Schema Therapy (ST) when patients with psychological problems fail to respond to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (Young, Klosko, & Weishaar, 2006). ST is [...]
Career Counseling Certification: 9 Courses & Training Routes
Thinking back to your original decision to pursue your current career, do you remember what influenced your choice? Did you consider the impact that pursuing [...]
How to Send & Build Counseling Client Intake Forms Digitally
The intake process is the first part of the journey to positive mental health outcomes for those entering counseling. Done well, it provides a fast [...]
Top 28 Counseling Books for Practitioners and Beginners
Are you just starting a career in counseling? Even if you have been in the counseling field for some time, do you want to increase [...]
What Is Career Counseling? 3 Fascinating Theories Explained
Changing jobs every few years or less is increasingly the norm among younger generations. A 2020 Deloitte survey found that 31% of Millennials and around [...]
What Is Financial Counseling? (+ Couples Financial Therapy)
How many times have you heard the phrase ‘money can’t buy happiness?’ If you were given a dollar each time you heard it, by now, [...]
The Importance of Counseling: 14 Proven Benefits of Therapy
Counseling is known as one of the greatest helping professions on Earth, yet many people remain perplexed about its true meaning, purpose, and intention. Most [...]
How to Use Silence in Therapy & Counseling
Silence in talk therapy? Silence may seem like a strange concept to highlight in a treatment based around conversation. Still, for anyone who’s taken part [...]
Therapeutic Relationships in Counseling: 4 Phases Explained
Psychotherapy has been described as a dance, “a synchronicity of the mind and body that occurs between therapist and client” (Schore, 2014, p. 388). Psychotherapy [...]
What Is Counseling Psychology? + Training Opportunities
Counseling psychology is an area of professional psychology with strong ties to positive psychology. It is a non-pathologizing, strengths-based approach that can help clients thrive. [...]