Member Insights

CT Online readers and member viewpoint, often on current issues.

The sensitivity of boundary setting in collectivist cultures

By Shabnam Brady October 11, 2021

Counselors must understand that relationship boundaries considered ‘healthy’ by the dominant culture in the U.S. don’t automatically apply to immigrant and bicultural clients.

Six steps for addressing behavioral addictions in clinical work

By Amanda Giordano October 5, 2021

It is imperative that all counselors, regardless of setting, are able to recognize and respond appropriately to behavioral addictions.

African Americans and the reluctance to seek treatment

By Patricia Bethea Whitfield September 16, 2021

When placed in historical context, it becomes easy to understand why many Black Americans remain skeptical that mental health professionals are truly here to help them.

Trauma stabilization through polyvagal theory and DBT

By Kirby Reutter September 14, 2021

‘Developing balance therapy’ helps provide clients with the necessary skills to stabilize or self-regulate so that they can proceed on to deeper trauma work.

A survivor’s lens on counseling and intimate partner violence

By Leontyne Evans August 12, 2021

Clients who have experienced domestic violence need to find safety and validation in the therapeutic relationship, not be pressed to answer questions about why they didn’t leave their abuser.