Author(s): Robert J. Wicks

General

One of the greatest gifts helping professionals can share withothers is a sense of their own peace. However, retaining andrenewing a sense of a healthy perspective requires not onlyself-care strategies, but also an awareness of basic profound, yetsimple, wisdom themes.

The Inner Life of the Counselor presents classic andcontemporary wisdom that examines and explores each of these themesin a way that both professional and non-professional helpers willfind revealing and meaningful in understanding their ownjourney.

Informed by the author's over thirty years of experience as atherapist, mentor, and clinical supervisor of professionalhelpers?as well as by his expertise in resiliency and prevention ofsecondary stress?The Inner Life of the Counselorthoughtfully looks at those elements that encourage sustainedpersonal growth and professional development, such as self-care, stress management, and mindfulness.

Lively, practical, and marked by an elegant sense of simplicity, this nurturing book demonstrates how exploring the inner life canlead counselors to new wisdom and inner peace?not only forthemselves but also for those who come to them for relief andinsight. It is an invitation to pause, reflect, renew, and navigateone of contemporary society's most challenging yet rewardingprofessions.