Georgia is – quirky. I love Georgia, but there are some things you should know if you are going to do online counseling in the Peach State. It’s not enough to be licensed in Georgia – you also have to have special training in online counseling – and to keep up that training every 2 years. Today we get to talk to Stephanie Cook, who is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a thriving practice in Atlanta, Georgia. She works with some individuals, but her passion is with couples. She uses the Gottman method and does both pre-commitment and premarital counseling as well as discernment counseling for couples considering divorce. But her big draw for me is that she does trainings for therapists in Georgia for their online counseling certification. She is a wealth of knowledge on this subject and I’m thrilled to have her on the podcast. One warning – unfortunately we had some sound issues on this podcast – there are a few glitches, so please be patient with us.
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Today we get to hear about Online Counseling in Colorado from one of the state’s leading therapists. Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby is the founder and clinical director of Growing Self Counseling and Coaching in Denver, Colorado. Since 2010, Dr. Bobby has been meeting with her clients through online video, in addition to meeting in person. Dr. Bobby is the host of the Love, Happiness and Success Podcast and the author of Exaholics: Breaking Your Addiction to an Ex Love. She’s an incredibly passionate and knowledgeable clinician who has supported her love of travel by taking her practice online. A Coach AND a counselor, Dr. Bobby has lot’s to teach us.
While most guests of the show are experts or practitioners of online counseling, sometimes I am able to interview someone in the field that may not exactly be an expert in online counseling – but who is a “must know” person in the field of counseling. Melvin Varghese is one of those people. He has a passion for helping therapists grow and improve in what we do. He is a learner – who started out with questions about private practice and decided to go talk to experts in the field – and then record what he was learning. So we get to learn with him! And Selling the Couch was born! It is hugely successful and now there is a facebook community with almost 2000 members – all working to help one another. He is a leading voice in our field and has really helped thousands of counselors be better people and practitioners.