Nourish Yourself Through Living Your Best life
Counselors, Cookies and Conversation A Conversation with Dietician, Carolyn Negley, MS, RDN Nourish Yourself Through Living Your Best life My learning started right as I walked into the reception room of registered dietician, Carolyn Negley. On an eraser board, clients were invited to share quotes. I read messages like “You are so much more than […]
Unsexy, But Deeply Necessary Self-Care (Counselors, Cookies and Conversation)
Counselors, Cookies and Conversation Unsexy, But Deeply Necessary Self-Care A Conversation with Counselor, Katrina Knizek, MA, LMHC, E-RYT [ Aria Screibman, Baylee Hilpert and Katrina Knizek (pictured left to right) Meeting Katrina Knizek, the owner of Your Vibrant Growth, felt like an immediate connection—her warm, welcoming nature made it easy to jump right into meaningful conversation […]
Be Grounded in Yourself
Cookies, Counselors and Conversation As I was writing this blog, I reflected on gratefulness and how life can come full circle in so many ways. I have had the honor to get to teach, mentor or supervise various counselors over the years and then step back and watch with joy as they bloom as people […]
Tremendous Love=Unconditional Positive Regard
Counselors, Cookies and Conversation with Amanda Salisbury, LICSW and Owner/CEO of Trauma Informed therapies Tremendous Love = Unconditional Positive Regard Greatest Learning “There is tremendous power in love.” This is the greatest learning Amanda Salisbury, MSW, LICSW (creator, owner and CEO of Trauma Informed Therapy) shared with me when I delivered cookies with a quest […]
Adjusting Your Attitude is instrumental to Success (A Counselor Interns Learning Journey)
Looking back on my time at Life’s Learning, there have been countless moments of growth that brought me to where I am today. The lesson I have chosen to write about was perhaps the hardest for me to learn: Adjusting your attitude is instrumental to success. Before I started seeing clients, I never thought about […]
Ambiguity, Humility, and Lifelong Learning as a Counselor
Ambiguity, Humility, and Lifelong Learning as a Counselor, by Mychal Ferger, Gonzaga Master level Intern (February 2021) Am·bi·gu·i·ty noun the quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness. As I reflect on my time as an intern counselor, I remember the initial utterance of these words being met with a visceral response of […]
Finding Freedom through Feedback: A Counselor Interns Journey
Letting go of Perfection and Finding Freedom through Feedback: A Counselor Interns Journey, by Mychal Ferger
Wending Your Way and “Becoming”
Cookies, Learning and Counselor Conversation Lucinda Wurtz sat down to share with me about learning to”Wend your way” (finding our way through the world without a linear direction) and how this can lead to becoming who we were meant to be. I was very aware about how she understands the sense of “being with” or […]
Overcoming the Imposter Syndrome as an Intern Counselor
Rubjoyt Singh, Gonzaga Master Level Intern reflects on what she learned during her internship about confronting the imposter syndrome and trusting the counseling process.
Acceptance, Faith and Meaning Making
Cookies, Learning and Counselor Conversation When I drew Sarah Meekhof’s name for the cookie delivery, I was ecstatic that I would get time with her. We had met some months earlier at a training when she came up to introduce herself. I was drawn to her warmth, big smile and the ease of conversation. We […]
