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5 critical questions your career guidance must answer 

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1) What personality tendencies do you have that limit your ability to accurately choose a career pathway?  Everyone has blinding biases that impair judgment. Do you know yours?  Remember, cognitive scientists (See Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman’s best selling book Thinking … Continue reading

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10 Critical College Readiness Questions for Parents and Students

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As part of my upcoming career guidance book to help you find your “Real Me,” I’ve interviewed several college students and recent college graduates and have asked them what they wish they would have known before they started college.  After … Continue reading

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Brighter Career Guidance for Darker Days Ahead

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Far more people quit their jobs in 2021 than any other year on record, even going back over 50 years.  In 2021 the disruptive onset of COVID-19 caused 47 million Americans to quit their jobs, according to the Bureau of … Continue reading

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Winning a college scholarship begins in 8th grade

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Over the last 20 years, I have guided students to develop their portfolios in strategic ways so they could win scholarship money.  For many families, winning a scholarship is a necessity for their student to go to college.  With skyrocketing … Continue reading

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has radically changed the Employment Success Formula

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If you’ve watched the blockbuster Netflix hit Stranger Things, you have some idea of what my life — and the life of my Generation X peers — was like. As a 51-year-old parent who grew up in the 1980s, I’m … Continue reading

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Dr. Brunner Summer 2022 Newsletter

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Making career guidance as deep as you are

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Out of graduate school I set up an independent psychology practice serving people from all walks of life.  It didn’t take long for me to observe the pounding blows that work drudgery beats people down with, day after day.  In … Continue reading

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4 Criteria to Find a Great Therapist

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In our stressful world, people are utilizing mental health therapists more than ever.  But how do you weed through the hundreds of treatment professionals out there to find the Great Therapists? With the explosion of online-based therapy, the options have grown … Continue reading

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Maximize your child’s development by understanding their Ages & Stages

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The are hundreds of books about what to do when things go wrong with your child. But where are the books that nail down what healthy development looks like? After 15 years of in-the-trenches work as a Tucson child psychologist, … Continue reading

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Great psychological assessment goes far beyond diagnosis

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In the field of medicine, a diagnosis typically leads to a clear treatment plan.  Not so in the field of psychology. Understanding the significant difference between medicine and psychology is critical if you want to obtain the very best psychological … Continue reading

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