Entrepreneurship Lately I’ve had conversations with colleagues who are in various stages of their career, practice or business development. The themes center around some of the common attributes and challenges that are integral to entrepreneurship. Those themes are: A call to developing confidence; mustering and maintaining courage; the discipline and consistency involved with building a … Read more
Marketing Yourself and Your Services In my work as a clinical supervisor, coach, and consultant, I often receive questions about how to market one’s services. If you are not trying to obtain clients or business, think about marketing as something you do that involves expanding your relationships. We all need to have a network of colleagues and … Read more
Broken-Heartedness How equipped are therapists to treat broken-heartedness? Most graduate programs don’t teach about love or treating broken-hearted people. There is a course on Human Sexuality and when I taught this class there was one chapter in the textbook on love. Yet many people start therapy of broken-heartedness. I’m defining a “broken heart” as a … Read more
Assertiveness So what does assertiveness have to do with changing the world? Everything as far as I am concerned. Being assertive means that you are making a conscious choice to continue to value yourself and someone else…even when you disagree with one another. Sometimes being assertive is easy. Other times it is very difficult. Changing … Read more