One of the main roles of a group therapist is establishing the group's culture. Group culture is influenced by the group's structure (i.e., a closed vs. an open group), meeting schedule, and explicit and implicit rules. Both group members and therapist contribute to the culture over time; however, the therapist plays the lead role in setting both the tone and structure of the group.
Read moreThree Ways Strategic Content Marketing Prevents Clinician Burnout, and How You Can Use Them to Build a Practice You Love
This week's article is a guest post by Marissa Lawton, licensed counselor, and content marketer for clinicians. In this post, she explains how content marketing lessens our work load, and helps to fill our private practices with our ideal clients.
Each and every therapist has spent years honing her craft. We’ve gone through months of advanced education and have pursued hours upon hours of continuing training, voluntarily, or not. When it comes to helping others heal, there is no one better equipped than those of our profession.
Grad school especially helped us develop the skills to treat clients and to bring them through their struggles to the other side--a functional, healthy, and preferably happy individual. If your program was anything like mine, you identified a modality, or two, or three that resonated with you and your approach to healing and dove head first into incorporating it in every session.
Read moreThe Family Therapy Basics First Annual Reader Survey
It's been one year since I launched the Family Therapy Basics site.
When I started blogging, I wasn't sure if anyone would be interested in the information I wanted to share, or in my particular "therapist" point of view. But, in one year, I've learned that what I do here, on this blog, is not only valued, but needed. I've learned this because of you--the readers.
Read more7 Approaches to Getting Unstuck with Therapy Clients
“Stuckness” is part of our work as therapists. It can be frustrating and confusing to suddenly reach this experience when previously, the client was showing progress. In this post, I’ll cover several approaches to helping therapists, and clients, get “unstuck.”
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