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Counselors understand the importance of empathy, but they sometimes find it challenging to fully integrate into practice.

In an ever-increasing digital world, counselors can help families develop healthy guidelines on internet use that consider each child’s developmental needs.

Religious and spiritual experiences are not always positive; sometimes, they cause emotional harm that affects a client’s identity, belief and sense of safety.

Starting a new career in counseling later in life taught one new counseling professional a few important lessons.

Two clinical supervisors share their advice on how to create successful consultation groups, which reduce isolation, provide clinical support, foster professional growth and improve client outcomes.

By working on basic developmental social skills, clients with insecure attachment and trauma histories can learn to build healthy, meaningful relationships.

One counselor shares his painful story of losing a supervisee to suicide and offers advice on how to cope after traumatic loss.

A desire for change can sometimes cause counselors and clients to overlook the importance of building a sense of safety first.

Using a mental health program designed for law enforcement may help remove barriers that often prevent officers from getting the mental health care they need.

Counselors can decrease their risk for sexual boundary violations, but first they have to talk about it.