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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.

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

EMDR can be a powerful therapy for clients, but first counselors must learn how — and when — to use it effectively.

Competently assessing client needs and determining an accurate treatment plan are skills that counselors need to continually develop and improve throughout their career.

Amid talks of how African Americans have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, the Tuskegee experiment has been cited as a kind of landmark explanation of why African Americans are reluctant to seek treatment.

‘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.

They say laughter is the best medicine, and improv does make clients and counselors laugh, but in the process, it also teaches life skills that can improve mental and emotional well-being.

Using games as a coping strategy for other underlying issues can lead to an addiction, as real life is replaced with a virtual and more favorable one.

A counselor turns to Worden’s tasks of mourning as he tries to navigate the nonlinear and sometimes unpredictable course of his own personal grief.