I am delighted to announce that I am now hosting my first regular psychotherapy column, and joining a new editorial team! Launching a psychotherapy column was one of my goals for this year, and it has come about after five years of counsellor training, and the successful publication of several counselling based features, in various magazines.
It is almost two years since I left behind my witchcraft column with Spirit&Destiny magazine, which you can read about here. At the time, I knew that I wanted to do more self-help writing, but I wasn't sure if I'd be able to build a whole new reputation with publishers, in this new genre. It was a stressful time, when I couldn't really see my way ahead - which is unusual for me as I generally know exactly where I'm heading! I just had to keep going and trust that it would all work out for me, and it has. Blind faith works!
Now I will be writing a new psychotherapy column and providing editorial content each month, launching this summer! This is a fantastic opportunity, and a firm foot in the door of a different genre. It is exactly what I hoped for, as I get to write columns on all sorts of issues, both mental and emotional, and offer solutions to my readers, by way of the real techniques of the therapy room. I see the column as bringing my therapy room practice onto the published page, where my readers can access this knowledge whenever they want to, without them having to pay the hefty price tag of private practice, or wait over six months for the inevitable fob-off of the farcical IAPS system. Because seriously, who needs that?!
This column brings together everything that I have worked towards for years - all my 20 years of publishing experience, plus my 5 years training and experience in therapeutic practice. It is the amalgamation I dreamed of bringing into being, right from the start of my training and my very first night class. This was always my target.
It is also the beginning of a strong publishing platform in this new area of expertise. As a writer, this is how you get your name known for a specific topic and build up your brand, by having regular work published with a recognised publisher. Although I have contributed to this editorial in the past, it was always with Wiccan based features, as that was what I was known for at the time. So it's fantastic that they want to bring me on board as their resident qualified counsellor, writing a psychotherapy column each month. I couldn't be more thrilled by it.
My editors there seem very enthusiastic about my work and ideas, and I know it will be great fun to work with people who are so dialled in to the mental health movement and want to get involved. Writers need editors who are willing to support their ideas and concepts, even if it is something outside their usual range - we need editors who are prepared to allow us to grow and expand as artists.
For me, I see this new column as the beginning of a new branch of my writing career. It is the fresh start I needed in my writing life; a blank slate that I am free to fill as I choose, exploring issues and values and general well-being, helping my readers to help themselves, as I have always done. I'm really excited to throw myself into it and already my head is brimming with column ideas!
I feel like my wings are finally un-clipped from the standard witchcraft work I was expected to produce - now I am free to let my words fly in a new direction, with my new counselling profession as a baseline and framework. I'll post again when I have a date for the actual launch of my column, and I hope that you will check it out and continue to support my work.
I do feel incredibly fortunate and so grateful. Hosting a Wiccan column with S&D for so many years was amazing - now I have been offered a second psychotherapy column with a completely different publisher and I feel so lucky to have achieved this break-through into regular psychotherapy writing. I worked hard for it and it certainly didn't come overnight! I know that my regular readers who have followed my work for years will be just as thrilled as I am by this news. As for any enemies I might have who may read this - well, they're just going to have to suck it up. Living well is the best revenge.
In addition, I had a meeting at college yesterday and I now know that I am on track to graduate fully as a counsellor and I will be graduating in cap and gown at the formal graduation ceremony this autumn! So my Wheel of Fortune seems to be on the rise once more and even though I am quite used to getting what I want, sometimes the generosity of the universe still takes me by surprise. A new era beckons as I begin to write a new kind of column, from a new professional stand-point. It's a new dream come true!
This column brings together everything that I have worked towards for years - all my 20 years of publishing experience, plus my 5 years training and experience in therapeutic practice. It is the amalgamation I dreamed of bringing into being, right from the start of my training and my very first night class. This was always my target.
It is also the beginning of a strong publishing platform in this new area of expertise. As a writer, this is how you get your name known for a specific topic and build up your brand, by having regular work published with a recognised publisher. Although I have contributed to this editorial in the past, it was always with Wiccan based features, as that was what I was known for at the time. So it's fantastic that they want to bring me on board as their resident qualified counsellor, writing a psychotherapy column each month. I couldn't be more thrilled by it.
My editors there seem very enthusiastic about my work and ideas, and I know it will be great fun to work with people who are so dialled in to the mental health movement and want to get involved. Writers need editors who are willing to support their ideas and concepts, even if it is something outside their usual range - we need editors who are prepared to allow us to grow and expand as artists.
For me, I see this new column as the beginning of a new branch of my writing career. It is the fresh start I needed in my writing life; a blank slate that I am free to fill as I choose, exploring issues and values and general well-being, helping my readers to help themselves, as I have always done. I'm really excited to throw myself into it and already my head is brimming with column ideas!
I feel like my wings are finally un-clipped from the standard witchcraft work I was expected to produce - now I am free to let my words fly in a new direction, with my new counselling profession as a baseline and framework. I'll post again when I have a date for the actual launch of my column, and I hope that you will check it out and continue to support my work.
I do feel incredibly fortunate and so grateful. Hosting a Wiccan column with S&D for so many years was amazing - now I have been offered a second psychotherapy column with a completely different publisher and I feel so lucky to have achieved this break-through into regular psychotherapy writing. I worked hard for it and it certainly didn't come overnight! I know that my regular readers who have followed my work for years will be just as thrilled as I am by this news. As for any enemies I might have who may read this - well, they're just going to have to suck it up. Living well is the best revenge.
In addition, I had a meeting at college yesterday and I now know that I am on track to graduate fully as a counsellor and I will be graduating in cap and gown at the formal graduation ceremony this autumn! So my Wheel of Fortune seems to be on the rise once more and even though I am quite used to getting what I want, sometimes the generosity of the universe still takes me by surprise. A new era beckons as I begin to write a new kind of column, from a new professional stand-point. It's a new dream come true!
𝅘𝅥𝅯🎜She always gets what she wants, in the end...🎜
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Great. Congratulations.
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