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CCPA Annual National Conference 2011

By Julia Kristina|2017-05-21T16:06:06-07:00June 3rd, 2011|General|

On May 19th I had the honour of facilitating a professional workshop at the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy's (CCPA) Annual National Conference in Ottawa. The presentation was on the topic of Bringing Religion and Spirituality into Therapy for both spiritual/religious and non-spiritual/religious therapists. I had a really wonderful time sharing my research and experience with a very engaged and intelligent audience, and I was really moved by the very thoughtful and meaningful questions and comments that were offered. My only regret is that we didn't have more time to discuss our thoughts and ideas with one another... I think if given [...]

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Scott Miller at the CCPA Annual Conference

By Julia Kristina|2017-05-21T16:06:06-07:00May 19th, 2011|Psychotherapy|

Yesterday I had the pleasure of once again hearing Scott Miller present. I won't go into too much detail about what he spoke about, but there was one thing that really stood out for me. He was giving a clinical example with a video of a case he was brought in to consult on. The individual he was called in to work with was a "very challenging case" - a man who had been receiving therapy and support primarily for his alcohol addiction for about 4 years. Now his mental health team was having a really hard time with this gentleman because they could not seem to convince [...]

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The Not-So-Hot Job Market

By Julia Kristina|2017-05-21T16:06:06-07:00March 9th, 2011|Career, General|

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 [...]

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Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference

By Julia Kristina|2017-05-21T16:06:06-07:00October 22nd, 2010|General, Psychotherapy|

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 [...]

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