Navigating Your Path:
Exploring uncharted territory in Mental Health
A blog dedicated to supporting pre-licensed mental health professionals who are passionate about creating meaningful change in the field. Through a liberation and abolitionist lens, we explore how you can shape your practice to be more inclusive, just, and transformative. This space is for those ready to challenge traditional frameworks, confront the barriers that limit healing, and reimagine what mental health care can be.
Whether you're in the early stages of your career or looking to deepen your commitment to social justice, you’ll find guidance in navigating a path that aligns with your values and vision for a better, more equitable world.
Progress Notes Made Easy
Progress notes don’t have to be difficult, but they often become overwhelming when they pile up and they’re too detailed. Check out these strategies that make progress note writing smarter, not harder.
Best Practices for Documentation
Learning to incorporate the Golden Thread throughout your practice documentation is important to ensure you can justify continued services with a client should you happen to face an audit or other more thorough peek at your recordkeeping. But doing so in a meaningful and intentional way can be tricky. Follow some of these pointers to help you do so.
Private Practice 101
What kind of person comes to mind when you think about a therapist or counselor? Now what if you pictured a business person or CEO? Depending on your experience, these roles, in some respects, could not be more different from each other. But just because the roles diverge in some respects, doesn't mean the two can't coexist—especially in a single person. This post will address the steps needed to start your own private practice.
How to: Be a Systems Thinker
The rings on an individual tree can tell us a lot more than its age. We can learn about the climate at any give point during a tree’s life, various events like wildfires, drought, temperature variations, and more. In other words, tree rings tell us about the context of the tree — just as systems theory does for humans.
Finding Your Genuine Self
Many of us are psychodynamically trained to be "blank slates" in front of our clients, a neutral face they can project their "stuff" onto and we help them navigate. But for many of us, this is just not disingenuous, it's simply not possible and has negative impacts on there therapy we do. Therefore, it is IMPERATIVE we show up genuinely and authentically in the therapy room, but just how do we do this ethically and professionally? Keep reading to find out how.
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