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 […]

Compassion Meets Understanding

Cookies, Learning and Counselor Conversation I was thrilled to have the opportunity to sit down with Counselor, Emily Willet.  Emily is in private practice in downtown Spokane. The byline on her website sums up nicely both my experience of her and what I know she nurtures within a counseling relationships.  It is: “Where Compassion Meets […]

Be True to Yourself (Counselor Conversation)

Cookies, Learning and Counselor Conversation   Introduction In meeting with Counselor and Dietitian, Angela Pham,  there is a sense that she works to be true to herself in both following her passion and what feels right for her.  She shared also about learning from what her children mirror to her as a mother. There was […]

Learning over Cookies and Conversation

As a part of the Counselor Conversations I facilitate, I wanted to connect to local colleagues, to get to know them and to give back to a profession that often goes unrecognized. I have a love for baking, both in the tasting and the sharing. It is a win-win that I get to do both […]