We asked some brilliant folks to tell us about the best advice they’ve ever given to a client and have highlighted some of the responses below.
Bernice Cohen
I specialize in “facial balancing” so, talking to patients about how to get the best, NATURAL look is always my goal. However, I work with each individual person to derive the best approach or plan to achieving their overall desired look.
Sometimes this can take a while. I have a number of clients that I’ve worked with for years to get them exactly where they feel their best – and the results can make them look like a whole new, refreshed person. Read more>>
Sherril Harris
“Don’t leave your culture to create itself.” – this is the advice I gave to Tracey, an executive leader at a business struggling with a revolving door of talent and (no surprise) unhappy customers.
Your company’s culture should not be a haphazard byproduct of operations but a deliberate and strategic element of your business. Company culture is the invisible force that shapes employee behavior, engagement, and ultimately, the success of an organization. When left to develop on its own, culture can become fragmented, misaligned with the company’s goals, and even toxic. Read more>>
Torie Moffat
I am a full time Veterinary Assistant, currently working toward becoming a Registered Veterinary Technician. I have been in this field for 5 years now and I absolutely love it. However, it wasn’t my original dream to have a career in the field of animal medicine. My original goal in life was to go to school for Astrophysics to become an astronaut and work for NASA. I had a conversation with a client about this about a year ago now. We discussed how I was going to school for Astrophysics many years ago and ended up pausing my education in order to help my family with some private matters. The client was so interested in my life and past and was so kind to me as well. It’s always so rewarding when I can connect with clients and when I can have deeper conversations with people in general. This client asked me why I hadn’t gone back to school for Astrophysics and finished reaching my goals. I hadn’t really thought about it and didn’t really think about going back to school, especially now that I am in a career field that does make me happy. The client’s advice to me was that it’s never too late to go toward another dream or an old dream, even if you feel that you’re currently satisfied where you’re at. They said that there will always be a part of you that will wonder what would’ve happened if you had gone toward the other dream. This really stuck with me and made me rethink what I want out of life; what are all of the goals and dreams that I have that I want to reach, even while I have already achieved some goals already. You can never have too many dreams and goals and you are capable of working toward all of them at the same time in order to be fully satisfied with every aspect of your life. Read more>>
Stephanie Townsend, LMSW, CCTP, ART Practitioner
I work really hard to provide “unique-to-you” treatment plans for each client who walks through my door, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t see a lot of the same recurring patterns, traumatic backgrounds, counterproductive thinking tracts, and anxious thought traps. The most common struggles or reasons for starting therapy I see within my clients are 1. a lack of healthy boundaries, 2. complete blockages of awareness of their physical and emotional responses to day-to-day things, and 3. missing senses of empowerment. Once you experience trauma, your brain has the ability to chemically change and physically create or no longer use specific neural pathways. This response is solely for protection and survival, the brain isn’t able to think into the future about how those adopted behaviors and thought patterns might prove to be huge barriers in the future, it only knows how to protect at the moment and does not tend to go back and “scan and correct” once the danger is over. So to answer the question, I’ll expand a bit more on the three concepts I listed. Read more>>