Active Listening To A Therapist

Empathy gives us as clinicians the ability to understand and connect with the client’s emotions. By building a relationship with a client it gives the clinician a better perspective of the client’s thoughts and feelings. Emotions are not something you can leave at the door and pick up later, it reflects on the individual’s performance. By simply asking how their day is going can create a conversation, this way the client can express themselves and not keep their emotions bottled up. Empathy can be cognitive or emotionally based. Cognitive empathy is being able to know what another person feels and what he/she might be thinking.

Allowing for our ethical codes of conduct, if the client is someone we feel we can proceed with, then as always, the first stage would be to develop a good rapport and gain the clients trust to develop an honest and open relationship with them. The client centred approach as always is the best method for this – to put the client at ease in a non-judgemental space where they can express their emotions and explore what it is they want to achieve with therapy. In giving the therapist an

The importance of empathy in any helping profession, medical or social, cannot be overstated. The workers that exemplified it in their practice did the best that they could with their limited resources.

This is why it is important for both the client and the therapist to be open and honest with each other from the very start when discussing the initial problems/issues.

have an interest in helping others. However, I think it is important to remember the possibility

The services provided are a relationship between the therapist assigned, and the client (you), this works because of the rights and responsibilities held by each person. Therapy can bring up past and present emotions and feelings,

Communicating therapeutically typically uses a combination of techniques such as empathy, touch, active listening, clarifying and open-ended questioning as noted by Day, J., Levett-Jones, T., & Kenny, R. (2015). Ultimately, it aims to create a space in which the

Most common supports provided by Human Services professionals now are counseling, advocacy, and care giving. Having empathy is essential for all Human Service professionals, when working with their clients. “Empathy involves the willingness and ability to truly understand a client’s beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and experiences from the client’s own perspective” (Martin, 2007). Being able to understand that most times when an individual is in a crisis, they are only responding naturally to the traumas in their lives will enable the Human Services professional to assist their client more effectively.

As previously mentioned, I believe communication between a client and human services worker is of vital importance in any individual’s treatment. According to the Center for Negotiation Studies website, there are three major styles of communication: Aggressive, Passive, and Assertive (Communication Skills, n.d.). My communication style with Joe is Assertive. I am an effective, active listener with Joe. He does not open up very easily, and so when he does I need to ensure he feels like I am listening to every word he says. I set

After reviewing the article written by Lisa Moore, I began to reflect upon how I would incorporate empathy in my interactions with a client during the assessment phase of therapy. Empathy in a nutshell is attempting to match your feelings or current state of mind with that of another individual. In our field, empathy is of the utmost importance. It allows the speech-language pathologist (SLP) to meet clients where they are, to enter their world, and truly understand what it feels like to be them. SLP’s must not only view the client from an external frame of reference, but they must attempt to extract the client’s thoughts, feelings, ideas, beliefs, and values before and whilst administering an assessment protocol. There are several ways in

Active listening is something that I have seen more of over the years. We have guidance that we counsel the juniors once a month (or as needed) and go over different topics. As a new member back in 1998 I would ask about the counselling’s per the manual and I would get “I counsel you every day so we don’t need to do that”. This does not give the opportunity to express the signals that you mentioned. The level of active listening on his part was a check in the box that he said he did it. He praised and scolded in open forum. I use my counselling’s as a way to get feedback from the individual. These young minds have a lot to offer when given the opportunity. How do you counsel the junior soldiers?

If the client feels “safe” in the session, this can be very powerful for them. As sessions occur, the client will feel more comfortable in trusting the clinician with their feelings, attitudes and emotions. The client is able to present their needs and problems in ways that only they can express. Another factor that may resonate in the sessions may include transference and counter-transference. Transference is when the client’s attitudes, feelings and emotional conflicts from past events begin to be directed to the therapist, while Countertransference is exactly the opposite, when the therapist’s attitudes, feelings, and emotional conflicts from the past are directed towards the client (Transference and Countertransference, 2011). There are not too many positive factors with Countertransference, except being able to recognize it, when it exists, and be able to work out any conflict. A client’s experiences can affect their feelings, emotions, and behaviors towards their therapist. If the therapist remains their professionalism, and sets the proper limits and boundaries, a client can work through past experiences that are affecting their functioning. In a lecture, it is the role of the counselor to recognize the client’s experience; reflect and process the client’s emotional state, as well as process their own emotional reactions to clients and their issues. When clients can work through their problems from past

respect that the counsellor has for the client and his problems, even though the counsellor may

According to Counseling Resources(2015), Carl Rogers describes the important role of empathy in counseling as a therapists understanding the client 's feelings and thoughts according to the client 's own perspective. Empathy is an important element in counseling between a therapist and the client. The therapist has to make the client feel respected and understood. According to David Martin(2011), an empathetic therapist sees the client as the source and problem solver. An empathetic therapist can help a client with past experiences and develop a better understanding of the experience and their feelings. Ed Neukrug(2013) describes Robert Carkhuff 's Five Level Empathy Scale: Level 1- reflections are inaccurate, Level 2- feelings or content not quite accurate, Level 3- accurate feelings of both feelings and content, Level 4- reflections of feelings

Empathy is a powerful communication skill that is often misunderstood and underused. Ultimately, it is a statement that the counsellor seems ‘in tune’ or ‘resonates’ with the clients hidden thoughts and feelings. Empathy is a normal human reaction and is crucial to good counselling, showing the client understanding gives that human sense of dignity and helps begin the recovery of self-esteem. Without empathy and the respect and dignity that it brings, counselling becomes a cruel parody of