Last week was a very busy week for me because school had started up again. This means that I am back to juggling school requirements in addition to my three days at the outpatient mental health clinic where I am interning. In addition, it just so happened that my faculty advisor was scheduled to make […]
Online Therapy and the Use of Technology
Have you wondered what are the advantages or disadvantages of using online therapy? Or have you been curious as to what avatar therapy in Second Life is all about? This week, DeeAnna Merz Nagel, LPC, DCC, co-founder of the Online Therapy Institute, will be answering these questions and more! DeeAnna has been practicing online counseling since 1999. Some of you may […]
Facing the Past as You Help Others Heal
As mentioned in Healing Yourself as You Heal Others, often the work you do as a therapist with clients leads you to discover and face your own personal wounds. This personal journey is essentially a requirement to avoid having your own issues interfere with the therapy you are conducting with your clients via counter-transference that […]
A Talk about Upward Mobility and Technology in Social Work
This week, I had the pleasure of interviewing Karen Zgoda, MSW, LCSW and a current PhD Candidate at the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work. Her primary occupations are conducting research, teaching and working on her dissertation but she also volunteers for the American Cancer Society and SocialWorkChat.org, and writes for TheNewSocialWorker. I think you […]
Parallel Processes, Boundaries & Authenticity
This week, I listened to a very interesting podcast from the University of Buffalo’s School of Social Work (UBSSW) addressing the topic of the supervisor – supervisee relationship in clinical social work settings. This podcast (Living Proof episode #5) is titled Models of Supervision: Parallel Processes and Honest Relationships and in it Dr. Lawrence Shulman, […]
