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Counselors are using happiness interventions to help clients redefine happiness and live a more fulfilling life.

Land acknowledgments are an opportunity to offer healing through honoring lived experiences, understanding the impact of colonization and balancing mourning with celebration of life.

Rick Balkin inspires and educates future and current counselors through his contributions on practicing forgiveness and working with teenagers in crisis.

Two counselors discuss how categories denoting experience level (such as the term “new professional”) affect one’s sense of professional identity.

Imposter syndrome can hold some counselors back, which is why it’s important to learn to recognize and manage it.

Discover how to build a sustainable and profitable practice by diversifying your income and incorporating strategies that prevent therapist fatigue.

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

Artificial intelligence is here to stay, but issues around regulation and ethical use of it remain unclear. 

Election Day 2024 is less than a year away, so now is the time to learn about and act on issues that matter to you and the counseling profession.

ACA partnered with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to support the White Ribbon VA campaign, an initiative that calls for the end of sexual harassment, sexual assault and intimate partner violence.