Promoting Counselor Professional and Personal Well-Being Through Advocacy

Abstract

Professional counselors are vulnerable to impairment due to the nature of helping professions. Impairment can potentially jeopardize counselors’ professional and personal well-being. Thus, it is vital that professional counselors attend to their wellness and advocate for their well-being. The authors provide practical advocacy strategies that professional counselors can utilize at micro, meso, and macro levels to advocate for their well-being, with the hope to promote quality, ethical, and professional practice among professional counselors.

Keywords:

• counselor well-being
• professional advocacy