Professional Artifacts

• Description: This resource includes a quick cheat sheet for emotional regulation and managing cognitive distortions, a section for reviewing and naming reasons for living both in therapy and in one’s private time, a section for noting and gathering client social supports, and a section of resources for the client to contact if they are in crisis.

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• Rationale for Inclusion: I have used this template with chronically suicidal clients and can speak to its effectiveness at keeping me focused while working with clients through various degrees of suicidality. This artifact corresponds with my goal of placing client welfare first in my clinical practice.

• Description: This project includes a video of me and a peer practicing the delivery of our professional disclosure statements for the purposes of collecting informed consent, as well as a written reflection on this process.

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• Rationale for Inclusion: This resource provides a model for how to best collect informed consent and prepare the client for the counseling process. I want to use this resource as a reminder of how to effectively walk through informed consent and necessary professional disclosures with clients. This artifact meets my goal of being authentic and forthright with clients regarding the nature of services rendered.

• Description: This is a resource that I developed for clients experiencing overwhelming emotions and/or difficulty noting, reframing, and/or disputing harmful thoughts. This resource also includes a section on wellness practices such as developing a sleep schedule, receiving adequate nutrition, and exercising.

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• Rationale for Inclusion: This resource will remain a fixture in my clinical practice as it provides clients with simple tools to help them notice and manage overwhelming emotions and harmful thoughts, aiding in symptom reduction and goal attainment while also helping to deescalate clients in crisis situations. This artifact meets two goals of mine: to integrate mindfulness into practice and to use empirically valid interventions.

• Description: A combination of the SIMPLE STEPS and SLAP assessments, as well as other tools that I have used in clinical practice, including scaling questions, tactics for broaching the taboo question, and reminders to assess frequency, duration, and intensity of suicidal ideation.

• Rationale for Inclusion: This resource serves as a necessary reminder of how to effectively assess for client suicidality. I have used it to help clients through suicidal ideation and imminent suicidality and plan to fine tune it throughout my career, adding new tips and tricks for myself and possible future supervisees. This artifact corresponds with my professional goal of using empirically sound methods, especially in potential crisis situations.