Mental Health Counseling

It used to be that counselors avoided talking about religion or spiritual issues with clients; the subject was considered inappropriate in the counseling environment. Today, however, there has been a paradigm shift in Schools of Social Work, which now teach that assessing a client’s spiritual needs and/or beliefs is as important to the counseling process as assessing what is happening in the client’s social and personal environment. I tend to agree. When I do an initial asses

I've been thinking about starting this blog for some time now. My counseling experience has been in working with adult survivors of intimate partner violence and with children who have experienced physical, emotional, or sexual abuse. I don't claim to be an expert, but I have focused on learning everything I can about the dynamics of abuse and the effects of trauma on those who are most vulnerable. What I have learned concerns me greatly. However, I have also learned that wit