This new edition includes updated sources, new material on technology, new challenges that therapists face as a result of the global pandemic, and an emphasis on teletherapy and navigating ethics and practice logistics remotely. He also examines the stress factors that are brought on from managed care bureaucracy, conflicts at work, and clients' own anxiety and depression. In this thoroughly revised and updated sixth edition, Jeffrey Kottler explores many of the challenges that therapists face in their practices today, including pressures from increased technology, economic realities, and advances in theory and technique. Kottler Ph.D.For more than thirty years, On Being a Therapist has inspired generations of mental health professionals (and their clients) to explore the most private, confusing, and sacred aspects of helping others. He has also co-founded Empower Nepali Girls ( which provides educational scholarships for lower caste girls at-risk in Nepal. Jeffrey is currently Professor of Counseling and of Freshman Programs at California State University, Fullerton. He has served as a Fulbright Scholar and Senior Lecturer in Peru, Thailand, and Iceland, as well as worked as a Visiting Professor in New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Nepal. Jeffrey has worked as an educator and psychologist in a preschool, middle school, mental health center, crisis center, university, community college, corporation, and private practice settings. A few of his newest books include: Change: What Really Leads to Personal Transformation, Helping Beyond the 50 Minute Hour: Therapists Involved in Meaningful Social Action, and The Teacher's Journey: Building Relationships and Flourishing Throughout Your Career.

His New York Times bestselling true crime book, The Last Victim, was recently completed as a feature film. Some of his most highly regarded works include: Divine Madness: Ten Stories of Creative Struggle, Changing People's Lives While Transforming Your Own: Paths to Social Justice and Global Human Rights, On Being a Therapist and more recently, The Assassin and the Therapist: An Exploration of Truth in Psychotherapy and in Life and Creative Breakthroughs in Therapy: Tales of Transformation and Astonishment. They are used in universities around the world and are considered classics among practicing teachers, counselors, psychologists, health professionals, and social justice advocates. is the author of over 80 books that have been translated into more than a dozen languages.

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