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The Heart of Counseling: Discovering and Embracing Your Authentic Self as a Therapist

"...this book provides therapists with an education in the heart. I recommend it for all beginning therapists." - Mary Pipher

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Discover your authentic self as a therapist.

Here’s the deal. I believe you know why you want to become a therapist, and a really good one that makes a difference in people's lives. I believe that the more you learn the less prepared you feel to sit with others. But I believe in you, because I’ve seen you change and learn and grow and begin to believe in yourself.

Maybe not you, exactly, but hundreds of others just like you that have gone before you and doubted, feared, hidden, and overcome. Yes, I know. I haven’t met you, but it’s true, I do believe in you. I know I don’t know your story, but I believe you have found the field of counseling with great purpose and intention.

Let’s rediscover your passion for health, for healing, for love, compassion, listening, learning, growing, and honoring and strengthening relationships. Let me welcome you, fully you, to the calling of being a counselor.

Dr. Michelle

PRAISE FOR The Heart Of Counseling

"Much of the training of graduate students is academic, but this book provides therapists with an education in the heart."

MARY PIPHER, PhD, author of four New York Times bestselling books including Reviving Ophelia and Letters to a Young Therapist

"My soul felt like it took a deep exhale and soaked up profound truths from a wise and gentle teacher. This inspiring book belongs in the hands of any therapist who believes their work, and the field in general, deserves more heart."

SEAN DAVIS, PhD, LMFT, Distinguished Professor, Alliant International University

"Dr. Engblom-Deglmann communicates in an intimate, trustworthy and, at times, vulnerable way to normalize and engage those learning the art of clinical work."

CLAUDIA GRAUF-GROUNDS, PhD, LMFT Professor Emerita Marriage & Family Therapy, Seattle Pacific University

EXCERPT FROM The Heart of Counseling...

This book was created from my heart to yours to help you be more like you.

Quite simply, I don’t think you need to change who you are. This book wasn’t written to help you be more like me or like counseling theorists or like your professors or supervisors. This book wasn’t written to tell you how to sit, what to say, how to pick a theory, or how to squeeze yourself into a pre-made mold of what it means to be a therapist. This book was created from my heart to yours to help you be more like you. To give you permission to be more like you. To fully invite you to be more like you, inside the counseling room and outside of the counseling room. I think you are already brilliant, and my hope is to remind you of that, not to change you. I want to uncover the layers, not add to the learning. My invitation to you is for you to get to know yourself, just as you are right here. Right in that gray space of growing, of not knowing, of wondering, needing, searching, seeking, and longing.