Featured Interviews

Clinical Social Worker How did you first become interested in social work and counseling as a career? I've always known that I wanted to be a therapist and be in a profession where I could help people. After I got my bachelor’s degree in human services from Lesley University in Cambridge, I did some case management stuff for work but Continue Reading

Clinical Social Worker / Psychotherapist Careers in psychology vary greatly (even within a specific field)…one moment you could be discussing relationship issues with a patient, and then spend the next day hosting a cable television show. These are just some of the things that Pandora MacLean-Hoover has done so far throughout her psychology career. MacLean-Hoover is a clinical social worker Continue Reading

Clinical Psychologist Psychologists not only work in an office setting, but also encounter a variety of opportunities to spread their wings in other arenas. As a clinical psychologist and certified life coach specializing in relationships, Dr. John Duffy has been in private practice for the past 15 years. Over the course of his career, Duffy has published a book, and Continue Reading

Eating Disorder Therapist Some therapists see a wide variety of client issues during their work, then there are therapists like Sarah Blake who work with a specific set of clients on a very specific issue. Blake has always been sure she liked helping others and she was pretty sure even as a young girl that she wanted to work with Continue Reading

Child Placement Social Worker Natalie Vinzant may have started her college career as a music major but it didn't take very long for her to find social work and never look back. Watching neighbors go through the adoption process gave Vinzant an early interest in adoption and child placement and so she combined her interest in social work and her Continue Reading

Spiritual/Meditative Counselor It's nearly impossible to summarize George A. Boyd's career in psychology and therapy and counseling in just a few paragraphs because the man has done so much. He has studied transpersonal psychology, clinical psychology and even pre-medicine. He has also worked as a drug counselor, authored more than a dozen books, and is nationally recognized for his meditative Continue Reading

Non-Profit Social Worker Believe it or not, very few students who major in psychology actually end up with jobs in the field. But Brian Rosenbaum had a job before he even graduate from UCLA and that has a lot to do with his early interest in psychology and helping others. Of course, the first few jobs Rosenbaum had in the Continue Reading

Marriage & Family Therapist Just because it took 15 years for Zora L. Kolkey to get her family therapy degree, doesn't mean she isn't a psychology veteran. After her undergraduate career, Kolkey moved to Israel to work for nearly a decade and picked up a master's degree in social work along the way. Realizing the social work degree was too Continue Reading

Life Coach If the responsibilities of a professional life coach seem broad to you that's because they are. The coaching field is a relatively new one, and in the absence of standard regulations, life coaches are free to focus on helping people in any number of different ways. For Jasmin Terrany, working with people through everyday anxieties and relationships was Continue Reading

Career Counselor All it took was a volunteer match service and a short stint teaching job search classes to low-income clients for Janet Scarborough Civitelli to realize that career counseling was what she wanted to do. Now she runs her own successful career counseling business, maintains an informational and helpful website, and is set to publish her first book sometime Continue Reading