Some of the clients who I see come for career counselling and the most popular opening line they use is "I'd like to go to school to get training for a career that I will love, that will pay me well, that will give me flexibility, and that will guarantee me a good job by the end of it, and oh yeah, I don't want to go to school for very long. What do you recommend?" sigh. If there was such a thing I would not be working as a counsellor but sitting outside on a [...]
Last winter some colleagues and I made our way down to Anaheim California for the Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference. It was almost surreal when we received our workshop schedules a few weeks before the conference and I discovered many of the presenters were people who's work I'd been reading and studying for years. I know it sounds pretty dorky to those not in the psychology world, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little star struck. Okay, A LOT star struck. The highlight of the conference for me was definitely any and every presentation, workshop, discussion [...]