This blog was submitted and written by Joel Schmidt, Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Owner of Float On Counseling. To start therapy sessions with Joel, please visit our “Contact Us” page. I get how daunting the therapist search can be – and the last thing you want to find out after choosing a “therapist near me” is to find out that you’ve signed up for bad therapy. Here I’ll talk about what “bad therapy” is …
This post was written by Joel Schmidt, Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Owner of Float On Counseling. If you would like to schedule an appointment with Joel, please visit our “Contact Us” page. Therapy can be weird. As a therapist, there are things that I would like to say to some of my clients – but I probably never will. If you’ve read any of my blog posts before, you’d know that I talk a …
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This post was a submission by Joel Schmidt, Licensed Mental Health Counselor. See below for information on how to get scheduled with him for individual or couples work. Money can be a bit taboo to talk about….and a complex topic when it comes to the financials of therapy for both clients and therapists. If you know me well enough, you know I like talking about things that people often don’t talk about….mysterious dynamics of therapy…and …
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I recently started listening to a new podcast called “Very Bad Therapy”. I just started, but the hosts (clinical counselors), interview other therapists and people who have been in therapy about bad experiences with therapy, questionable approaches, and times when therapy has been downright harmful. It’s about “what goes wrong in the counseling room and how it could go better, as told by the clients who survived.” It can be hard to take that step…to …
A Day in the Life of a Therapist (This Therapist) Post written by Float On Counseling Therapist and Owner, Joel Schmidt LMHC Take a glimpse behind the curtain. Here, I’ll share what a day in the life of a therapist (THIS therapist) looks like from sunrise to sunset – from the more mundane side of things to the things I do to show up the best way I can for the people I work with. …
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