Lessons from An Early Career Therapist: Managing Mistakes, Missteps, and Other Minor Disasters - Paperback

by A. Dana Ménard (Author)

This book is a reassuring guide both for novice therapists and those further along in their journey, normalizing, validating, and empathizing with the human aspects of the profession and supporting readers to feel empowered and confident managing real-life situations with real-life clients.

Author Biography

A. Dana Ménard, PhD, C.Psych, is an assistant professor of clinical psychology at the University of Windsor (Windsor, ON) and has held previous academic appointments at the University of Western Ontario (London, ON) and at Wayne State University (Detroit, MI). As a clinician, Dr. Ménard has worked at Detroit Receiving Hospital, the London Health Sciences Centre, the Royal Ottawa Hospital and the Ottawa Hospital, among others. She is the co-author of Magnificent Sex: Lessons from Extraordinary Lovers (2020, Routledge) with Peggy Kleinplatz, which won the 2021 Consumer Book Award from the Society of Sex Therapy and Research.