Vocational Rehabilitation & Counselling Blog

This article explores assistive technology devices, from low to high tech, including the benefits and challenges for a quality of life.

This article explores the benefits of health coaching for behavior change, motivational interviewing, SMART goals, plans, and collaboration.

This article introduces the topics of assistive technology and medical mobility devices for people with chronic or disabling conditions.

This article explores how orthopedic exercise training can assist people with a chronic condition to return to work activities post-injury.

This article explores a simple version of the dialogue a client could expect at an initial vocational rehabilitation counselling interview.

This article explores how certain work experiences can lead to secondary traumatic responses and distress for those in helping roles.

This article defines terms and presents three arguments supported by evidence, on the complex challenges faced by college students with ASD.

This article compares and contrasts the concepts of spirituality and volition as foundational to occupational therapy practice.

A multicultural counselling approach emphasizes intersectionality as a foundation. Culture is central in all aspects of this counselling...

Many people who experience issues with substance disorders or addiction behaviors have also discovered they have difficulty with sleep.

This article briefly describes how the Gestalt model of therapy changed the counsellor’s role because it allowed for openness.

This article introduces the concept of allowing contact with our experience and behavior, a term from Gestalt psychology and psychotherapy.

This article explores the concept of mapping our life space based on needs, as developed by Kurt Lewin, an American social psychologist.

This article describes Gestalt psychology, its therapeutic techniques and tools, and the meaning of whole patterns and laws of perception.

This article introduces Family Reconstruction, a valuable therapeutic approach that fits within family systems theory.

This article introduces the Temperature Reading, an intervention for couples that was developed by American psychotherapist Virginia Satir.

This article explores the meaning of parts of self, the purpose of parts, and the Parts Party for couples or other pairs in relationships.

This article addresses how dealing with inclusion and exclusion can bring equality into our relationships.

This article introduces the characteristics of a healthy triad relationship, where everyone feels good and there is strong cooperation.

This article describes a process of learning about self and others from interactions in a primary triad with parents or caregivers.