I’ve been doing some reflective introspection lately, about who I am as a counselor.    It seems like there should be a simple answer to that question, and that one likely would assume I had my identity pegged before I even started seeing clients.    Sadly, that’s just not true.  As it turns out, my graduate school spent little time on professional identity, and what little time is dedicated to the topic is spent regurgitating barely-applicable information from some miserable

One of my favorite concepts- and quite honestly, a resource that I utilize daily- is that of dialectics.  There are varying definitions of “dialectics” based on the discipline from which you are practicing, but in my case, I am referring to dialectics as present in Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT.  Developed in the late 1980s by American psychologist Marsha Linehan, DBT defines “dialectics” as a synthesis or integration of opposites .  But let’s not make things more diff

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Welcome!  And thanks for visiting my site.  My name is Amy Butler Angell and I am a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in...