Therapist Tips by Therapy Practice Solutions

  Women’s History Month: Showing Advocacy for Women in the Therapy Office Written by: Kelsey Someliana-Lauer, Therapy Practice Solutions Virtual Assistant In March, we love to take time to honor our founding female figures - folx like Susan B. Anthony, Marsha P. Johnson, Sojourner Truth, Eleanor Roosevelt, and so on.  While reflecting on our founding femmes is important and needed, discussing the advocacy we can do today is just as important.  Our trailblazing mothers didn’t work for nothing, after all! How can we promote advocacy in 2022 in the therapeutic space?  Check out these tips on how, as a mental health therapist, we can keep women’s rights on our minds and in our offices. Acknowledge the Ugly History of Women’s Mental Health Let’s face it - the history of the treatment of women in the mental health field hasn’t been pretty.  While we’ve moved far past diagnosing hysteria for women clearly having normative stress responses, we haven’t completely equalized the field.  For exam

  Couple's Counseling: What Approach is Right for Your Practice Written By: Kelsey Someliana-Lauer, Virtual Assistant with Therapy Practice Solutions It’s Valentine’s Day, and what better day to talk about couples counseling?  Couples counseling is increasingly popular in America with nearly half of all couples reporting they’ve utilized the services of a couple’s counselor while together.  Of those couples, nearly two-thirds - 66 percent - have reported benefits of attending counseling in less than twenty sessions.  There is certainly no shortage of trainings mental health counselors can attend to increase their competency in counseling couples - PESI, one of the leading sites counselors can find courses for continuing education credits, has 215 trainings for family and couples counseling listed at this moment alone.  With multiple approaches to couples counseling, how do you choose? Choosing a modality or an approach to be trained in can be a tough decision.  You may look to p