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The Journey Of Becoming A Clinician

What does it take to be a mental health clinician? Generally, whether a physician, or mental health professional “a clinician is a health care professional that works as a primary care giver of a patient in a hospital, skilled nursing facility, clinic, or patient’s home. A clinician diagnoses and treats patients.” Once you enter the mental health field you are always striving to be the best…

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Counseling Style: It's not just Theory

As a beginning counselor it is important that your counseling style goes beyond your theoretical orientation - a brief discussion.

Counseling style; a term used to describe how a therapist interacts with their clients in order to facilitate change. If you are just starting out as a therapist like myself you may have ran into the debate of:

I align with this theory so I should try and do more of that theory but the more I try I feel less like myself.

Aligning with a theory is one thing (theoretical orientation) but counseling…

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Beginning Counselor: Am I really doing a good job?

Whether you are a starting as a camp counselor or wrapping up your graduate degree to become a professional therapist you run into the question: Am I really doing a good job?

I have found throughout my seven summers at Vanderkamp Christian Summer Camp and Retreat Center (www.vk.org) and through studying mental health counseling at Alfred University (www.alfred.edu) that whether you are in the…

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