CS Features – Expert Interviews, Guides, Professional Advocacy & Research in Counseling
Joining a counseling profession is about more than understanding licensing requirements and reading step-by-step guides. This is a profession committed to continued education, listening, and learning. To be a successful counselor or therapist, you have to be engaged with and aware of the larger conversations in the community.
Whether you are just starting your counseling career or already working in the field, CS features cover topics relevant to you. It holds scholarship and resource guides, expert interviews, tips for avoiding burnout and compassion fatigue, discussions of the latest academic research, and detailed analyses of the most pressing advocacy issues within counseling professions. Overall, we bring you into the conversation around the biggest issues in counseling and professions today.
Teaching Clients How to Use Mindfulness
11/21/25
Many clients disconnect from their thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations to mentally survive. The practice of mindfulness helps clients heal by teaching them techniques that bring their attention to the present moment.
College Students and Anxiety
11/20/25
Even though we’re very excited to be accepted to college, the experience can be stressful. Moving away from the support of home, accepting financial burdens, coping with roommates, figuring out how a bureaucracy works, and preparing for seemingly endless tests and papers can be overwhelming.
Why People Are Drawn to Cults – The Psychology of Brainwashing
11/18/25
Dr. Patrick O’Reilly has served as an expert witness on cults, gangs, undue influence, and false confessions.
Challenges in School Counseling: Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)
11/17/25
Broadly speaking, social-emotional learning (SEL) is the process of developing a learner’s social and emotional skills with the same level of focus as shown to other core subjects like reading, math, and science.
How Expressive Art Techniques Help Heal Your Clients
11/13/25
Expressive art techniques promote mental health and wellbeing. When clients allow themselves to laugh, let go, and relax, they can experience relief from painful thoughts and sensations, which helps decrease depression, anxiety, and stress.
LGBTQ+ Family Dynamics in Therapy
11/12/25
LGBTQ+ clients can face some unique challenges in family therapy, especially when it comes to disclosing their sexuality or gender identity, setting boundaries with intolerant family members, and helping those in their life accept who they are.
A Salary Guide for All Counseling Careers: Which Areas Pay the Best? (2026)
11/10/25
Wages for counselors vary widely based on the type of counseling services offered, the level of education completed, employers, and where the work is performed. Which state a counselor works in can have a strong effect on the average salary.
Guide to Bilingual & Culturally Diverse Counseling Careers
11/06/25
This guide to bilingual and culturally diverse counseling careers includes information on degree and certificate programs that specialize in treating diverse and underserved populations.
Interview with a Certified Sex Therapist – What to Know About This Growing Career
11/04/25
Well-trained and dedicated sex therapists can play a life-changing role for their clients and for a sexually-empowered world.
What is an Ambiguous Loss?
11/03/25
What can be traumatizing for some clients who experience an ambiguous loss is the uncertainty or lack of information about the lost loved one. It is this not knowing or ambiguity, which prolongs the grieving process.