Cover Stories

Counselors as human beings, not superheroes

By Bethany Bray September 23, 2019

A counseling license doesn’t inoculate practitioners against wrestling with “what if” thinking, struggling with problems in their home life and personal relationships, or experiencing some of the same hardships that they help clients walk through.

Making it safe to talk about suicidal ideation

By Bethany Bray August 26, 2019

By sensitively — yet straightforwardly — addressing the topic of suicide, counselors can encourage clients to open up about an issue that too often remains shrouded in shame and stigma.

More than simply shy

By Bethany Bray July 29, 2019

Highly treatable but often passed off as shyness or awkwardness, social anxiety can bring clients to a counselor’s door when they’ve reached a breaking point and are no longer able to get by with their long-held coping mechanisms.

Addressing intimate partner violence with clients

By Bethany Bray June 24, 2019

Professional clinical counselors are charged with learning how to spot red flags and then carefully respond to a complicated and emotionally charged issue that is present in an uncomfortably large percentage of intimate relationships.

Learning to love (or at least leverage) technology

By Lindsey Phillips May 22, 2019

Few people would describe the counseling profession’s relationship with technology as comfortable, but more of today’s professionals are beginning to embrace the possibilities and envision the ways it might supplement therapy.