Counselor Self-Care

This highly anticipated second edition written for students, clinicians, educators, and supervisors offers practical perspectives on the lifelong quest for personal wellness. Through conversational and deeply personal narratives, the authors reveal their self-care journeys at different stages of their careers, and 39 guest contributors-ranging from graduate students to counseling veterans-share how they overcome setbacks and prioritize self-care to maintain competent, ethical practice.

Topics include practicing self-care throughout your career, strategies for managing stress, establishing personal and professional boundaries, enhancing relationships, finding meaning in life, and creating a realistic self-care plan. Firsthand accounts throughout the book have been updated, and new narratives have been added on self-care practices for healing from grief, self-care for grief counselors, staying committed to self-care, global self-care practices, permission to be, creating balance among chaos, making self-care nonnegotiable, contemplations at midcareer, and self-care planning.

Gerald "Jerry" Corey, EdD, ABPP, is professor emeritus of human services and counseling at California State University at Fullerton and is a distinguished visiting professor of counseling at the University of Holy Cross in New Orleans, where each semester he teaches intensive courses in counseling theories, group counseling, and ethics. He received his doctorate in counseling from the University of Southern California in 1967. He was awarded an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters in 1992 from the National Louis University. He is a Diplomate in Counseling Psychology, American Board of Professional Psychology; a licensed psychologist; and a National Certified Counselor. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 17, Counseling Psychology; and Division 49, Group Psychotherapy); a Fellow of the American Counseling Association; and a Fellow of the Association for Specialists in Group Work. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Mental Health Counselors Association in 2011 and received the Eminent Career Award from ASGW in 2001. Jerry was the recipient of the Outstanding Professor of the Year Award from California State University, Fullerton in 1991. He received the Thomas Hohenshil National Publications Award at the American Counseling Association's Virtual Conference in 2021. He is the author or coauthor of 16 textbooks in counseling currently in print, along with more than 70 journal articles and book chapters. Several of his books have been translated into other languages. Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy has been translated into Arabic, Indonesian, Portuguese, Turkish, Korean, and Chinese. Theory and Practice of Group Counseling has been translated into Korean, Chinese, Spanish, and Russian. Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions has been translated into Korean, Japanese, and Chinese. With his colleagues, Jerry has conducted workshops in the United States, Germany, Ireland, Belgium, Scotland, Mexico, Canada, China, and Korea with a special focus on training in group counseling.

Michelle Muratori, PhD, recently left the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (JHU-CTY) after working there for 20 years. She served as the assistant director for student support and was also an adviser for the CTY Scholars program, a college readiness program for high ability precollege students from disadvantaged backgrounds, and a senior counselor for SET, a program that served exceptionally able middle school and high school students. Michelle earned her MA in counseling psychology from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and her PhD in counselor education from the University of Iowa, where she developed her research and clinical interests in gifted education. Her graduate research on the academic, social, and emotional adjustment of young college entrants earned her recognition from the Iowa Talented and Gifted Association, the National Association for Gifted Children, and the Mensa Education and Research Foundation and Mensa International, Ltd. At the University of Iowa, Michelle also earned the Howard R. Jones Achievement Award, the Albert Hood Promising Scholar Award, and the First in the Nation in Education (FINE) Scholar Award.

Since 2005, Michelle has been a faculty associate in the Johns Hopkins School of Education in the Master of Science in Counseling program. Passionate about training counselors, she plans to transition to full-time teaching as a counselor educator. In 2014, she was honored with the Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award. Michelle regularly presents at national conferences in counseling and gifted education. In addition to ACA, she is a member of the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, the Association for Specialists in Group Work, the Maryland Counseling Association, and the National Association for Gifted Children.

Jude T. Austin II, PhD, LPC-S, LMFT, NCC, CCMHC, is an assistant professor in the Master of Arts in Counseling program at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor and serves as the program's clinical mental health counseling track coordinator. He is also in private practice in Belton, Texas, working with individuals, couples, families, and groups. His research focuses on counselor education pedagogy, specifically finding ways to help counseling students develop therapeutic presence in session. He has served as a keynote speaker, presenter, and trainer for local, regional, and national conferences. He was also a 2021 American Counseling Association Virtual Conference keynote speaker. He is the coauthor of Surviving and Thriving in Your Counseling Program (2020) and Doing Counseling: Developing Your Clinical Skills and Style (2023), both published by the American Counseling Association, and The Counselor Educator's Guide: Practical In-Class Strategies and Activities (2021), published by Springer. He has also contributed articles to a variety of publications in the counseling field.

Julius A. Austin, PhD, LPC, NCC, is an assistant professor in the Counseling program at Grand Canyon University and is in private practice in Lafayette, Louisiana, working with individuals, couples, families, and groups. He has served as a keynote speaker, presenter, and trainer for local, regional, and national conferences. He was also a 2021 American Counseling Association Virtual Conference keynote speaker. He is the coauthor of Surviving and Thriving in Your Counseling Program (2020) and Doing Counseling: Developing Your Clinical Skills and Style (2023), both published by the American Counseling Association, and The Counselor Educator's Guide: Practical In-Class Strategies and Activities (2021), published by Springer. He has also contributed articles to a variety of publications in the counseling field.