Blogging is an important step in growing your professional online presence. Without a doubt, blogging, writing, pushing content into cyberspace is a social media and marketing strategy that is here to stay. So let’s go through a few important points to get you started or re-committed to the concept of blogging. Why? First, because you… [Read More]
The Workplace and Social Networking- Got Boundaries?
Kate continues with her regular column for the quarterly Journal of the BACP Workplace Division (http://www.bacpworkplace.org.uk/journal.php) This issue focuses on Social Networking Negotiating the boundaries between our professional and personal lives is increasingly a part of our work as therapists. If you use social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn you are probably… [Read More]
Cyberculture in the workplace: a beginner’s guide
Kate continues with her regular column for the quarterly Journal of the BACP Workplace Division. This issue focuses on online disinhibition. I’d like to introduce you to one of the core themes that apply to distance communication in whatever technology you are using. It’s called the “disinhibition effect” (Suler, 2004). It is very likely that… [Read More]
Online Therapy: Is the Client “Electronically Present” in Your Office?
The news yesterday brought a ruling in a New Jersey State Appeals Court that dismissed Linda and David Kubert’s civil liability claims against a Rockaway woman who sent a friend a text message moments before he crashed his pickup truck into their motorcycle in September 2009. Attorney Stephen Weinstein praised an appeals court decision that holds… [Read More]
BACP Coaching Division Networking Division welcomes Online Coaching!
I was delighted to be invited to Oxford UK – the City of Dreaming Spires – to present to the BACPC Oxford Networking group, to talk about Online Coaching. It was a pleasure to meet the well-attended group with new and experienced networking members. Thanks to Anne Cajella for a stunning buffet as well! I’m… [Read More]
Cyberculture in the Workplace
I was delighted to be invited recently to write a regular column for the quarterly Journal of the BACP Workplace Division. The Division “is for everyone interested in the provision [of] counselling in the workplace, the emotional health of organisations and the individuals within them. We are concerned with counselling that is provided directly or… [Read More]
Seeking an online coach, therapist or healer? What should you look for?
Online therapy and coaching is becoming quite popular so it is not surprising that more and more people will be seeking out services from coaches, therapists and other helpers online. We have all heard the phrase, Buyer Beware and this could not be more true when we talk about accessing services from a helping professional on… [Read More]
Utilizing Linkedin as a Career Counselor
I recently facilitated a Distance Credentialed Counselor training that was Career Counselor focused and many of the participants in the training stated that Linkedin has become an essential part of their work as a career counselor, often endorsing, recommending and linking with their career counseling students/clients. I pointed out the ethics regarding possible breach of… [Read More]
