Counseling Skills

Counselling is based on a therapeutic relationship, whereby the counsellor using their skills and knowledge to help the client to explore and understand their difficulties. This is done in a safe and secure setting, whilst maintaining a confidential and non judgemental manner. Before the therapeutic relationship can develop, both client and counsellor must write up a contract covering areas such as confidentiality, fees, duration of sessions, number of sessions and responsibilities. Counselling can help with issues such as depression, anxiety, bereavement, low self esteem, domestic violence, midlife crisis, sexuality and relationship.

The client stated he came to counseling because he wanted to work on relieving some of his stress. Throughout the sessions, the source of his stress changed. During the first session, he was having a conflict within his friend group. In the first and second session, the client mentioned feeling responsible for his friends and family. In the second session, he was feeling stressed because of his amount of school work, particularly midterm exams. Although he stated he was doing well, he was not meeting his expectations. To meet his expectations, the client mentioned not practicing proper self-care. In the third session, the client’s stress was a result of his relationship with his girlfriend. He expressed not being satisfied with the quantity and quality of the time they were spending

In my opinion the beginning of the counselling session is one of the most important stage of the process, the client will be very nervous and will not fully trust the process they are about to embark on, their unknown journey they will be nervous. The Client may hold back what they are feeling until they have gained the trust of the counsellor, and know they are safe and in a confidential environment.

In everyday life people experience difficulties and problems that they feel they are not able to deal with on their own and need help with. The help that people receive to overcome their problems can be in many different forms. People may receive help in an informal way, such as having a chat to a close friend or relative, who can offer support and advice or they may seek help in a more formal capacity from various helping professionals, such as counsellors, social workers, psychiatrists, doctors, etc. For all of these professionals it is their

When discussing common concerns of being a helper, the authors go over the importance of managing your doubt. They explain that not all clients will be fixed by you, you cannot save everyone. While not being able to save everyone, you still need

I believe counseling is a collaborative partnership between client and counselor. Furthermore, this collaborative partnership is built from trust and acceptance of both client and counselor. I hope in conjunction with clients to understand the issues and concerns so to help them tap into their wisdom, creativity, and strengths to meet their current challenges. I believe in a comprehensive perspective through which clients can better comprehend themselves in the framework that our thinking about events can lead to emotional and behavioral upset. Moreover, counselors are to provide a safe environment for clients to explore their challenges and identify ways to move differently in overcoming these challenges.

It takes a special person to become a school counselor and in doing so it is important to take those life skills, knowledge, dispositions, and background experiences to help along the way. In the counseling field there are some guidelines and theories that will help, but nothing that prepares you for what may happen at any moment or any time during the day. It is clear that life definitely throws some unexpected curve balls and that is the same for situations in the field of school counseling. You never know what situation you will run into and in order to dodge those curve balls it is those life experiences that often time influence the direction in which we take both personally and professionally. It is important to compile all the knowledge and experiences that we have gained throughout life and apply them in a way that will help others to be successful. It is key to reflect on the past and those skills that I have that will lead me to become an effective professional school counselors.

For a professional to be an effective helper, they must be able to fully understand where exactly their client is at with their problem (s),

Each person is unique with different gifts, abilities, and struggles. Counselors are committed to walk with individuals on their journeys to growth and healing without judgement.

The counseling profession is a complex and constantly changing field. This field contains several unique subcategories that can be intriguing and difficult to understand. However, I believe that if an individual has a strong professional identity, they can achieve a lot in their chosen field.

166), confrontation most likely will be something which the helper may have to face as well as endure with the client (Corey, 2016). Unless there are dangers to the helpers or others, then the helpers should not take these conflicting issues personally because it is not about them, it is about the clients establishing trust with the helpers as well as helpers letting clients know that they respect them as human beings, however, there is a need or a purpose for the intervention and there are issues which need to be addressed. The main task of the first stage of helpers is an important step and this step will be used with voluntary and involuntary clients. However, when it comes to involuntary clients, helpers may have more challenges to bear throughout this process. If that first stage of helping is productive then maybe the following stages will continue to be beneficial to the clients throughout the

Knowing that we have completed a good job and creating healthy relationships with clients is important for us. We understand that despite the assistance provided; some situations would create triggers and thus the desire of help may be neglected, everyone needs help sometimes.

As a helper, we must keep in mind that our clients may or may not be of our culture or share our same values, in fact we may come across clients

By creating a therapeutic environment in which the client feel safe to be entirely honest and open about their thoughts and feelings we can enable the client to be

Instead, the counsellor’s role is to provide an atmosphere in which the client, through the exploration of her situation, comes to see herself and her reactions more clearly and accept her attitudes more fully.