The older I get, the faster New Years Eve rolls around every year.  For me, there’s a significant amount of guilt surrounding NYE, because I always feel the societal pressure to set resolutions, but I struggle to find the ambition and the focus to do so.  A friend recently teased me when I stated that “I feel the need to be intentional about setting intentions”, but in the midst of the cheers, champagne glasses, confetti, and streaming the year’s annual NYE performances, I ra

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

I remember the first time my therapist recommended that I read “Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha” by...