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Using mental health apps as a supplement to counseling may help clients to foster their own healing.

As telebehavioral health continues to reshape the profession, counselors are adapting the clinical skills they use for in-person therapy to better fit an online environment.

Chase Chick, co-founder of Pursuit of Happiness in Dallas, spoke with Counseling Today about Medicaid’s deficiencies in serving counseling agencies that work with youth in foster care and the steps his practice is taking to reform

We are three months into the calendar year 2023, and counselors are beginning to realize how much power they hold in their state legislature and the federal government.

Grief is an experience that everyone navigates at different points in their lives. For the past three years, the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted peoples’ lives in myriad ways and left many experiencing significant grief.

Mindfulness is often seen as a cure-all approach, but as with other clinical approaches, counselors should carefully consider when and how they integrate this practice into sessions.

Because Black women in the United States face an alarmingly higher rate of maternal mortality and mental health conditions, counselors should be prepared to help clients manage their mental health while also advocating for quality care from health pr

Black individuals are more likely to experience mental health problems but are less likely to seek treatment for a variety of reasons.

By remaining clinically objective, do counselors inadvertently sacrifice the client’s humanity?

Youth who are aging out of the foster care system frequently wrestle with feelings of grief and abandonment.