Novice Counselor's blog

If I am working at a community mental health center or anywhere else as a counselor, it would be highly unrealistic to expect that each client I encounter will have the same personal beliefs and values as me. The person-centered perception of people is based on the key belief that people respond to their [...]

Jake is a depressed client.
An existential therapist would try to understand Jake’s world while fostering an interpersonal relationship between Jake and himself. The existential therapist believes that conflict arises as the persons tries to resolve confrontations with the givens of the human condition which are death, freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness (Bauman & Waldo, [...]

According to Carter, (2006), one cannot conclude that particular treatments are clearly better than other treatments or clearly better than treatment as usual in the community. The research literature thus supports clinicians’ experiential knowledge that psychotherapy works but does not offer them specific information about what to do when or with whom to provide effective [...]