Tactful ways to break up with friends
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Women’s Health contributor and psychologist Dr. Michelle Callahan appeared as a guest on CBS’s The Early Show discussing a new study that shows women are outpacing men in education and income.
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Women’s Health Magazine advice columnist Dr. Michelle appeared on LX New York to offer her tips on how to deal with female bullies at work.
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Answer: There are several approaches to a career as a mental health professional who specializes in working with couples. You could become a clinical psychologist, a counseling psychologist, a clinical social worker, a marriage and family therapist, or a relationship coach. Each profession differs by its focus on human behavior and its approach to helping the client(s) resolve problems. In order to know which classes to take and subjects to major in, you really have to do more research to understand which of these jobs (or others) might appeal to you most. Most of the careers require a master’s degree or a Ph.D. and when you are finished with graduate school you typically have to take an exam and become “licensed” to practice psychotherapy in your state.
Some great places to look for more information are:
• The American Psychological Association (www.apa.org). Visit http://www.apa.org/students/brochure/index.html for an online brochure about careers in psychology that explains all of the different types of psychology (clinical, developmental, social, etc.), what psychologists do and how to plan your education and career as a psychologist.
Today a reporter asked me why I work on TV and what I find satisfying about my work. Honestly, I love my job. At the end of the day, my wish is that I can reach at least one person who needed to be reached at that time, on that day. Right after production on Wedlock or Deadlock ended, one of the audience members reached out to me to tell me how much watching me talk to the couples affected her and changed her thinking about her life and her relationship. That made my day! Even she acknowledged that she never intended to be affected, but that somehow my message to others got through to her too!
I remember times in my own life when I needed a sympathetic ear or an inspirational message to keep me going. Sometimes it was at those moments that I heard something on TV or read something in a book that I thought was a message that was tailor made for me. It is my hope that I can provide that same inspiration or motivation to someone else by showing up on their TV screen at just the moment that they needed to hear what I had to say. Or I hope that they stumble across my book Ms. Typed right at the time when they needed to know that they are not alone in this crazy game called love. I don’t believe in coincidences anyway. I know that I was put here to help people get from where they are to where they are meant to be. So when the opportunity to do so presents itself, I accept the challenge with great enthusiasm.
I hope you have a great day. I’m off to make some TV appearances to promote the show. I’m so excited!!
(This blog was originally posted at www.drmichelle.com/blog. © Dr. Michelle Callahan)
