UPDATE: The Specialist Certificate in Online Coaching is no longer available. The content is now included in the Intuitive Wellness Coach Specialist Certificate. Please see all of our Coaching courses HERE. We receive training inquiries from therapists (graduate level) who want to pursue additional training in online coaching. We offer our Certified Cyber Facilitator credential… [Read More]
Therapeutic Writing: An Interview with Kathleen Adams
Kathleen Adams LPC, is a clinical journal therapist and the founder/director of the Center for Journal Therapy (www.journaltherapy.com) and its professional training division, the fully online Therapeutic Writing Institute (www.TWInstitute.net). She is the author/editor of nine books on journal therapy, including the best-selling Journal to the Self and Expressive Writing: Foundations of Practice, due out… [Read More]
Can you go online on the ride of your life?
Some people don’t believe me when I describe the early years of my career. I had an office in the student’s association. In it, there was a desk, a chair for me, and an extra chair for a visitor, and a few bookcases. No computer – the association’s office manager had the only computer on… [Read More]
Webdultery: The Costs and Rewards of Internet “Cheating”
Exchange theory is both spot-on and unfeeling. Its basic tenets are clear in the name: our behaviors are guided by a kind of exchange. We gauge the costs and rewards of something and act accordingly. Are the benefits greater than the costs? Great, then I’ll do it. Hard to argue with this theory. Another aspect… [Read More]
Are you Blogging for Your Business Yet?
I wrote the title of this article a little ‘tongue in cheek’ because I think so many therapists and coaches are yet to tap into the amazing potential that blogging can offer for your business. Many therapists and coaches I speak to give a variety of reasons as to why they are not blogging, such… [Read More]
How to Make Great Mental Health Apps
Do you have a great idea for a mental health or therapy App? Do you want to create a great looking, user friendly App that consistently works across all major platforms and truly transform the lives of users? Me too. It seems like Apps are the new “books” in mental health these days. Just about… [Read More]
Cyberculture in the workplace: a beginner’s guide
Kate continues with her regular column for the quarterly Journal of the BACP Workplace Division. This issue focuses on online disinhibition. I’d like to introduce you to one of the core themes that apply to distance communication in whatever technology you are using. It’s called the “disinhibition effect” (Suler, 2004). It is very likely that… [Read More]
For the Love of Books
The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. ~ Northrop Frye Establishing, Managing, and Protecting Your Online Reputation: A Social Media Guide for Physicians and Medical Practices by Kevin Pho M.D. & Susan Gay Online health information combined with social media channels like Twitter and Facebook has created a new… [Read More]
