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How to Overcome Fear of Failure: Your Ultimate Guide
Although many of us may accept in theory that failure is a necessary component of all learning and growth, in practice, we struggle greatly with [...]
How to Cope With Stress: 10+ Strategies and Mechanisms
Have you experienced a racing pulse, difficulty breathing, sleep disturbances, irritability, appetite changes, or feeling like you cannot cope? If so, you might be stressed. [...]
How to Start Your Life Coaching Business Plan & Template
If you’re reading this, you’ve probably been thinking–or thought previously–about starting your own life coaching business. And yet, perhaps, like many of us, you’re unsure [...]
How To Plan Your (First) Counseling Session: 6 Examples
Planning is crucial in a counseling session to ensure that time inside–and outside–therapy sessions is well spent, with the client achieving a successful outcome within [...]
Happiness Economics: Can Money Buy Happiness?
Do you ever daydream about winning the lottery? After all, it only costs a small amount, a slight risk, with the possibility of a substantial [...]
Performance Anxiety: 15 Symptoms, Causes, and Treatments
We typically think of performance anxiety as being associated with sports: that inability to sink the putt or take the kick in the final playoff. [...]
Understanding Therapist Burnout: 12 Symptoms & Recovery Tips
Treating clients can be deeply rewarding. And yet, we cannot underestimate the psychological toll psychotherapy takes on its practitioners. Burnout is common among mental health [...]
What Is Movie and Cinema Therapy & How Does It Work?
Movies may be an escape from reality for some, but they are also deep reflections of our culture and our inner lives as human beings. [...]
Therapy Treatments for Loneliness to Help Clients Cope
As human beings, we are hard-wired for social connection and interaction. Our ancestors survived by depending on the collective for food, shelter, physical caregiving, reproduction, [...]
65+ Counseling Methods & Techniques to Apply With Your Clients
Counselors have found it challenging to settle on a single definition of their profession or agree on the best counseling methods and techniques to treat [...]