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Self Care, a Symphony in Four Parts: Part Two
By Awbrey Michelle Willett Katherine Ninos, MA, LPCC, is Executive Vice President of Southwestern College and Director of the New Earth Institute. She received her BA in Psychology from Alfred...
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Self Care, a Symphony in Four Parts: Part One
By Awbrey Michelle Willett I set out using each of my classes here at Southwestern to grow as a person, and to study self-care, and the various occupational hazards of...
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Being a Counselor, and Using Coaching Sensibilities and Skills
Dr. Nolan discusses combining Counseling and Coaching as a career option. ...
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Becoming Visionary: The Key To Our Successful Future
Becoming Visionary Is A Mindset You Will Need --by Jim Nolan What does it mean to be “Visionary”? Visionary means looking into our unprecedentedly uncertain future and introducing...
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Male Therapists in Training, Including Native New Mexicans!
There aren't enough male therapists out there, and there are definitely not enough male therapists of color, or Spanish-speaking male therapists, or male therapists born and raised in Northern New...
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Being a Counselor Activist – SWC Alumna Kate Latimer
Being a Counselor Activist I was outraged from an early age. They say if you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention, so I guess I was paying attention. In 8th...
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Who’s Who at Southwestern College – Denise Moore
Early on in my graduate internship at a family counseling agency, a supervisor told me, "We have the best jobs in the world, for we get to witness, hold and...
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Worried About Licensing Exams? Or Starting Your First Job As a Therapist?
Students often worry about whether they are learning what they need to know to pass exams and succeed on their first jobs. Some words of wisdom about that......
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Five Great Reasons for Becoming a Professional Counselor
If you have been told that you are a good listener, or you are the one your friends come to who have problems, keep reading.......
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Creativity in the Classroom at Southwestern College
Students at Southwestern College show mastery of content in creative ways....
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The Transformative Power of Group Work by Claudia Escareño-Clark
Claudia Escareño-Clark shares some reflections on her group work experience during practicum at Southwestern College. ...
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Five Fabulous Apps for SWC Grad Students
Technology, particularly device and computer apps, is a wiz-bang fabulous time saver to help you get your grad school life sorted and into maintenance mode. Plus, the entire campus is...
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Soul-Making at Southwestern College
What do you get when you rock a holistic, integrative, soulful curriculum and approach to Art Therapy and Counseling, in an innovative and powerfully transformational dual degree program? You get...
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The Southwestern Counseling Center: My Practicum Experience
Second-year student, Sylvan Schneider, offers his reflection on navigating his own therapeutic approach and being a student therapist at the Southwestern Counseling Center. ...
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Destination Grad School
Santa Fe is awesome as a grad school destination and city. Check out a few of the honors awarded to "The City Different" below (read the entire "Best of Santa Fe"...
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Ten Things You Didn’t Know About Quimby Memorial Library
An exquisitely entertaining blog post by librarian Larry Harkcom......
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Living the Dream at Southwestern College by Sylvan Schneider
Counseling student Sylvan Schneider shares what it is like being a male at Southwestern College, and in the field of Counseling. ...
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Practicum in Counseling by Eliza Buck
When I entered the second year of my counseling program, I immediately felt the shift of focus from myself to the client. Going to Tierra Nueva, Southwestern College's Counseling Center,...