Challenging friend, supportive peer, midwife, parent, role model — a therapist can be many things to many people in a day’s work! What does your therapist offer you?

Ever tried to define psychology? You might find that such a task is not as simple or as easy as it might seem at first. And that might just be because the field of psychology is an ever-evolving discipline.

Humankind has come a long way over the eons in terms of how we communicate with one another. But so much of what we say to one another still isn’t captured by the words we speak or the text we type.

I’ve been privileged to have worked with so many good people, wanting to grow, motivated to learn, willing to self-examine, and appreciative of the understanding and support I might provide.

In a multicultural society, it’s inevitable that counsellors, like everyone else, will come across people whose first or even second language is not English. But if therapist and client are — quite literally — speaking different languages, how can therapeutic work even begin to take place? The answer lies in the gift of empathy.

In the process of starting a business, building a career, or some other large, audacious goal, you could do worse than to tap into the voices of experience around you. And yet even if you listen to the collected wisdom of your elders, their sage advice may fail to produce results. Here’s how “the experts” can steer you wrong.

Highly unusual, “impossible,” perhaps even miraculous things happen many times each day. If you’ve been plugging away with little to show for your efforts, read on to learn how to raise your odds of a miracle.