Dalena Watson Counseling

10/20/2025

Shout out to with .creatives. She did a fabulous job with my new flyers and was wonderful to work with.

Being a solo entrepreneur can be isolating and difficult, but with collaborations and hiring professionals to support you, you and your business can thrive.

10/02/2025

A healing journey awaits, filled with transformative insights and resources designed to empower personal growth. You can heal from the past and live the life you want.

Begin this enriching experience by visiting our website today at dalenawatson.com.

09/26/2025

Unlock your potential today by exploring if private practice is right for you. It takes a lot more than the right forms and marketing. I help you dive into the personal aspects of running your own therapy business.

Take the first step towards a brighter future and discover the tools that can help you thrive.

https://dwc-counseling-and-mental-health.teachable.com/p/introduction-to-private-practice-is-it-right-for-me

09/24/2025

When the world feels crazy, a path to wellness is waiting for you. Visit my website to find unique insights and resources that can support your healing journey and help you thrive.

09/23/2025

I’ll be there! Sign up, it’s a free event and a great time to connect with the community and local resources. It’s for everyone not just therapists.

The Mental Health Matters Arizona Conference is an insightful and impactful event dedicated to promoting awareness, understanding, and support for mental illness at no cost to attendees. The conference brings together a diverse group of professionals, experts, advocates, and individuals passionate a...

09/02/2025

If you have been wanting to be in private practice but aren’t sure where to start, I have the perfect short course and resources for you!

With 25 years in private practice I tell you the truth and you give you what you need to get started.

https://dwc-counseling-and-mental-health.teachable.com/p/introduction-to-private-practice-is-it-right-for-me

08/25/2025

Important insurance updates.

I wish I had better news, but there are some important changes to the marketplace healthcare plans for next year.

There’s legislation in effect that will cut transgender healthcare for adult adults starting next year from all marketplace and all federal employee plans.

08/22/2025

I just couldn't wait until Monday, so for all of you checking things out on a Friday, Here's my newest course: Intro to Private Practice: Is it Right for Me?

I'm so excited to be helping other professionals with their dream of owning their own practice. It's so rewarding, but let's be fair, our education did not teach us how to think like entrepreneurs.

Let me help you in this short 1 hour course with a workbook and resource guide.

https://dwc-counseling-and-mental-health.teachable.com/p/introduction-to-private-practice-is-it-right-for-me

Private practice is often a dream of many mental and behavioral health practitioners, yet our training never adequately prepares us for the realities of being a business owner. Dalena Watson with nearly 25 years of private practice and over 30 in the field walks you through this new landscape and ex...

07/25/2025

This. This is one huge reason to choose a real licensed therapist rather than use AI.

This is what we have even with tech and venture captialist companies secretly recording therapy sessions and trying to train their algorithms.

So far we are aware of AI urging people to harm and kill themselves, harming others, and forming romantic relationships eith the bot. We are also aware the bots are unable to properly diagnose and treat of a variety of mental health disorders. The bots are also so sycophantic that they are unable to challenge distorted thinking, thereby reinforcing unhealthy, interpersonal relationship dynamics.

https://apple.news/Axi1_5buvQMWbPXKQEzLfNAelssersd ar boys ae

The idea of AI producing kill lists or inciting violence is more the domain of Terminator than therapy. [not good but brain fried right now] Yet that's exactly what video journalist Caelan Conrad got when they tested Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda's claim that her company's chatbot could "talk people off...

07/09/2025

A journey towards wellness begins with a single step. Visit my website to find resources that empower you to embrace change and foster personal growth.

www.dalenawatson.com

05/22/2025

The power of music in healing is ancient knowledge. In the Bonny Method of GIM we consider it so important that it becomes our co-therapist in transformative healing.

Nicki S. Cohen, PhD, MT-BC introduced me to this quote at our conference yesterday (Association for Music and Imagery). I'm struck by this reflection on music as art and true nature. (Thank you Nicki)

"Music is the art form most about beauty. Because music neither represents the phenomenal world nor makes statements about it, it bypasses both the pictorial and the verbal and so, of all the arts, best represents the metaphysical. In other words, music is the least representative of all the arts.

Music is much closer to the true nature of all things than any other art form. This idea would explain why, when the appropriate music is chosen it seems to reveal its innermost, purest meaning."

Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, 1819

05/21/2025

I’m so excited to be attending the AMI conference this year. BMGIM practitioners are some of the most amazing heart-centered people you can meet.

I’m sharing a song that was introduced in the opening session. Let me know if it touched your heart.
https://lnkd.in/gJEfCxvC