counselorwellness.com
Creating Counselor Wellness through Education, Consulation, and Community-Building. --- Elizabeth Venart, Licensed Professional Counselor ---
http://www.counselorwellness.com/wellness_practices.html
Wellness Strategies for Counselors. Create and pay ongoing attention to the balance in your life – balance between work and play, giving and receiving, accomplishing tasks and “doing nothing.” Build time for yourself and with friends and family into your regular schedule. Do things you enjoy. Practice Self-Care throughout the Day. Where the only fee is the price of the phone call through your local phone service provider. Prioritize What is Essential. If you are struggling to put these practices – ...
counselorwellness.com
Creating Counselor Wellness through Education, Consulation, and Community-Building. --- Elizabeth Venart, Licensed Professional Counselor ---
http://www.counselorwellness.com/resources.html
Counselor Wellness: Definitions, Hazards of Practice, and Strategies for Intervention. Addressing Counselor Wellness and Impairment: Definitions, Hazards of Practice, Research, and the Use of a Comprehensive Wellness Model to Promote Wellness. APA’s Road to Resilience Series. Jane Myers’ wellness information. Jane Myers’ website. Personality Tests—Keirsey and Campbell. Information on the highly sensitive person. Resources on Trauma, Grief, and Resiliency. Article on Preventing Counselor Impairment. Famil...
counselorwellness.com
Creating Counselor Wellness through Education, Consulation, and Community-Building. --- Elizabeth Venart, Licensed Professional Counselor ---
http://www.counselorwellness.com/wellness_defined.html
Why is it important that counselors take care of themselves? Everyone deserves good care, and counselors are included in that “everyone.” We are entitled to the same riches of health, joy, peace, connection, and opportunity that we wish for our clients and the communities we serve. As Counselor Educators and Wellness Experts Myers and Sweeney (2005) wrote in their book Counseling for Wellness,. Provide a comprehensive look at the construct of wellness and a helpful assessment tool. The Wellness Workb...
counselorwellness.com
Creating Counselor Wellness through Education, Consulation, and Community-Building. --- Elizabeth Venart, Licensed Professional Counselor ---
http://www.counselorwellness.com/hazards_of_practice.html
Challenges to Counselor Wellness. There are many challenges to maintaining counselor wellness, and many of these stem from the nature of the work itself. Thomas Skovholt, author of. Compassion Fatigue, Vicarious Trauma, Burnout, and Impairment. This instrument includes measures for compassion fatigue/trauma, compassion satisfaction, and burnout. Vicarious trauma, a concept described thoroughly in the book by Pearlman and Saakvitne (1995) entitled. Trauma and the Therapist. Physical illness or debilitation.
counselorwellness.org
Creating Counselor Wellness through Education, Consulation, and Community-Building. --- Elizabeth Venart, Licensed Professional Counselor ---
http://www.counselorwellness.org/resources.html
Counselor Wellness: Definitions, Hazards of Practice, and Strategies for Intervention. Addressing Counselor Wellness and Impairment: Definitions, Hazards of Practice, Research, and the Use of a Comprehensive Wellness Model to Promote Wellness. APA’s Road to Resilience Series. Jane Myers’ wellness information. Jane Myers’ website. Personality Tests—Keirsey and Campbell. Information on the highly sensitive person. Resources on Trauma, Grief, and Resiliency. Article on Preventing Counselor Impairment. Famil...
counselorwellness.com
Creating Counselor Wellness through Education, Community, and Hope-Sustaining Practices
http://www.counselorwellness.com/index.html
Created this website to provide information on counselor wellness, practices that promote wellness, and resources to strengthen professional community and sustain hope. In the story of the Ugly Duckling, when did the Ugly Duckling stop feeling Ugly? When he realized that he was a Swan. Each of us has something Special, a Swan of some sort, hidden inside somewhere. But until we recognize that it’s there, what can we do but splash around, treading water? The Tao of Pooh.
counselorwellness.org
Creating Counselor Wellness through Education, Community, and Hope-Sustaining Practices
http://www.counselorwellness.org/index.html
Created this website to provide information on counselor wellness, practices that promote wellness, and resources to strengthen professional community and sustain hope. In the story of the Ugly Duckling, when did the Ugly Duckling stop feeling Ugly? When he realized that he was a Swan. Each of us has something Special, a Swan of some sort, hidden inside somewhere. But until we recognize that it’s there, what can we do but splash around, treading water? The Tao of Pooh.
counselorwellness.org
Creating Counselor Wellness through Education, Consulation, and Community-Building. --- Elizabeth Venart, Licensed Professional Counselor ---
http://www.counselorwellness.org/about.html
Counselor Wellness is a website I developed to support counselors and other helping professionals in maintaining and improving their own wellness – while in the service of supporting others. My name is Elizabeth Venart, and I am the Founder and Director of The Resiliency Center in Ambler, Pennsylvania. And a Licensed Professional Counselor in Private Practice. Join me in making the wellness of our counseling community a top priority! I look forward to hearing from you — through our online community.
