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As veteran suicide rates continue to rise, counselors can incorporate creative clinical approaches to better serve those who serve us.

Color therapy offers a nonintrusive and engaging way to help clients gain a greater understanding of themselves and others.

Solution-focused brief therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy are effective — yet underutilized — clinical approaches counselors can use to help clients with depressive symptoms.

The childhood sexual abuse of Black men remains a taboo subject, but counselors can help clients break the silence and reclaim their own power.

Romantic breakups often come with a lot of painful feelings and loss, but when processed in counseling, they can also be an opportunity to connect with oneself and make meaning from the experience.

When anxiety leads the way and controls our behavior, it becomes problematic.

Counseling can provide third-culture kids with a space to grieve their losses and celebrate the beauty and possibility within their unique experiences.

Counselors can use their position and power to better serve transgender and gender-expansive youth whose mental health and well-being are threatened by oppressive policies.

A youth mental health crisis is rising to a crescendo in American schools, so now more than ever, school-based counselors need support and buy-in from school staff, parents and outside mental health professionals.

Digital mental health has been touted as a solution to filling the mental health access gap, but do these platforms really provide access for all?