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15 Mental Wellness Quotes to Share With Your Counseling Clients

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Counseling clients are often searching for principles to guide them through their mental health journey — particularly if they’re new in the process. For many clients, quotes offer stability and groundedness during a turbulent time. We’ve listed 15 mental wellness quotes to share with your counseling clients. Encourage them to pick a few favourites, and display them somewhere they’ll see them frequently — maybe it’s on their bathroom mirror, on their desk, or in the car. These quotes serve as a reminder of resilience and strength, encouraging your clients to keep going. 

Inspiring mental wellness quotes

  1. “Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.” — Pema Chodron
  2. “The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.” — John C. Maxwell
  3. “The best thing one can do when it is raining, is to let it rain.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  4. “Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we’re taking on too much, but because we’re taking on too little of what really strengthens us.” — Marcus Buckingham 
  5. “Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.” – Wayne W. Dyer
  6. “If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” – Mary Engelbreit
  7. “It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.” — Lucy Maud Montgomery
  8. “In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy.” — Albert Clarke
  9. “In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.” — Mitch Albom
  10. “Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the most wonderful things that will ever happen to us.” —Nicole Reed
  11. “Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.” —J. Donald Walters
  12. Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it. — Dorothy M. Neddermeyer
  13. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
  14. “Actually spending ten minutes clearing off one shelf is better than fantasizing about spending a weekend cleaning out the basement.” —Gretchen Rubin
  15. “For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.” —T.S. Eliot

Easily check in with your clients

Checking in with your clients can dramatically increase counseling outcomes. It can be as simple as sending them a weekly quote, or a kind message. Therachat allows you to securely message your clients and send them homework through an easy-to-use HIPAA-compliant app. Save time with our pre-made activities like emotion tracking and open journaling, or fully customize activities to fit your client’s unique needs. Ready to modernize your practice? Learn more about Therachat for clinicians.

How to Easily Send Counseling Homework to Clients

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Homework is one of the most influential factors in counseling success. Assigning short exercises is a powerful strategy to help clients gain insight into their experiences. It also helps them work through processing their emotions outside of sessions. A small amount of homework can have a huge impact on your counseling practice. We’ve outlined how to send counseling homework to clients and keep them on track, even outside of office hours.

The Importance of Homework

Research has shown that counseling clients who complete homework assignments are more engaged and empowered in their therapy process, experiencing better treatment outcomes. In most cases, clients use homework to apply what they have learned in therapy, reflect on their progress, and practice new skills in the context of their day-to-day. However, counselors can always tailor homework to fit each individual client and their unique counselling goals. 

The Switch to Digital

As the world moves further away from in-person services and towards an online-first practice, online homework is both a necessity and a convenience. A study found that when Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) homework was assigned digitally, clients working through substance abuse saw significantly increased positive outcomes. Digital homework apps offer a whole host of benefits that traditional pen and paper just can’t.

  • The convenience and accessibility to keep counseling goals top of mind
  • There’s no need to come into the office to pick up homework. If a client is ready to move on, they can simply choose activities from their personal device
  • Clients can complete homework in a comfortable environment on their own time

The Benefits of Digital Homework for Counselors 

It’s not just clients who love the convenience of a digital homework app — counselors also use it to modernize their practice and elevate the client experience.

  • Create and customize digital activities that can be assigned to multiple clients. Save time and help a wider scope of your practice 
  • Follow up with clients through an easy-to-use instant messenger that’s safe, private, and more convenient than texting with your personal number 
  • Track and look back on client progress
  • Added security benefits such as HIPAA compliance
  • No need to file and manage paper documents

A digital homework app like Therachat is one of the simplest ways to save time and help clients reach their goals even faster. It also fosters better communication and therefore a stronger client-counselor relationship — one of the clearest predictors of counseling success. Clients who feel comfortable and connected to their therapists are more likely to disclose important information. This is important for insights into their mental health progress. 

Counseling Homework Made Simple

With the convenience of counseling technology right on our devices, there’s never been a better time for you to integrate digital tools into your practice. Homework is an integral part of therapy, helping clients implement newly learned skills into their everyday life. It’s an easy way to stay connected to clients, keeping them engaged and on track between sessions. It also opens a critical relationship-boosting channel for communication between you and your clients. 

Homework empowers counselors with a deep understanding of a client’s progress throughout treatment, allowing them to adjust their approach if necessary. Like everything else, results come with consistent and steady progress. The sooner you start to send counseling homework to clients, the sooner you and your clients can enjoy the benefits that come with a regular homework routine. Therachat makes it easy to deliver homework to your clients, track their progress, and communicate securely and professionally. See the benefits of Therachat for clinicians.

8 Benefits And Downsides of HIPAA-Compliant Texting

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Privacy and confidentiality are important factors when it comes to dealing with client information. When patients visit the hospital, communicate with doctors and their mental health specialist, hey expect all of the information to be retained securely.

In the incredibly digital world we live in, our data can be exposed to being attacked, but with secure systems in place, the chances of this happening make it very difficult for any hacker or threat to break through and damage or steal confidential information.

Being compliant with secure laws and regulations regarding your data, can increase your chances of keeping you and your client’s information safe from any attacks. Healthcare institutions and professionals in the US are subjected to HIPAA-compliance. And this is also the case when texting or communicating with clients.

There are plenty of resources that inform you about the possible services for HIPAA-compliant texting, but in this article we’re going to dive into some of the benefits of being HIPAA ready when communicating with clients. [Read more…] about 8 Benefits And Downsides of HIPAA-Compliant Texting