Journeys to Professional Excellence

Stories of Courage, Innovation, and Risk-Taking in the Lives of Noted Psychologists and Counselors

Journeys to Professional Excellence highlights the “professional journeys” of notable psychologists, counselors, and academics and describes the lessons we might learn from their stories. With guidance from the editors, Frederic P. Bemak and Robert Conyne, this book presents the developmental experience of successful faculty and practitioners, many of whom are experts in their fields, to help students articulate and define relationships between their personal and professional identities. The biographical content presented will help current students and counseling and psychology educators at all career stages learn about the pathways to success from well-known professionals. Through powerful and revealing narratives, these leading counselors disclose how they chose their career paths, what challenges they have faced, what factors contributed to their successes and failures, how they balance work and their personal lives, and what advice they have for those entering the profession.