Demystifying the Counseling Process: A Self-Help Handbook for Counselors

This text offers insight into some overlooked aspects of counseling, from subtle considerations to be given to initial client contact to the preservation of the counselor's own vitality in a demanding profession.

This informal, user-friendly text is intended to provide a journey by author and reader along some of the less-traveled roads of counseling. Topics covered in this journey include: attention to the powerful aspects of the language we choose to use; the elements of teaching that are integral to counseling; ethical and moral issues of concern; and potential pitfalls of a profession that draws from the essence of the counselor.