Gateway Counseling Center: A Case Study

The Our Lady of Lake Community Counseling Center (CCS) purpose is to provide private, affordable counseling services for families, couples and individuals, which focuses on strengths and solutions (Community Counseling Service, n.d.). The center is designed to help people and their families to function better with their feelings, and engage in healthier relationships.

A mental health counselor is a counseling professional, whose duties involves helping individuals cope with difficult life events, managing mental illnesses, and referring patients to additional resources that can help them. Before they can start counseling, they need to follow their states specific requires. For instance, in Louisiana, one has to obtain a master’s degree from an accredited program, have the required hours of supervised practice and coursework, and pass the National Counselor Examination to be licensed and certified. In addition to receiving a license in this field, an individual has to complete an addition 40 hours of continuing education every year to renew their license. The Mental Health Counseling program, offered at Capella, would satisfy most, if not all, of the licensure requirements in Louisiana.

In the coaching discussion it was not said that my conduct was not meeting expectations, but not allow myself to be in situations where it appears I’m being insubordinate.

* Hallucinations – see things that aren’t there or talk to people who aren’t around.

The field visit was at Blythewood Counseling Center located at Trinity United Methodist Church. This a faith based counseling organization.

This week I assisted someone with filling out an application for the counseling center. I thought the experience went well. When I assisted the patient with filling out the application I noticed that the application was long and tedious. I think being able to assist patients with completing an application is beneficial for patients who cannot read or understand the questions. I also communicated with a person that was experiencing anxiety. The patient was crying in my office because she was experiencing anxiety about her diabetes. I discussed with the patient some of the challenges that she was experiencing in her life. I felt that I did a good job with assisting the person and calming her down. I also walked the patient up to the counseling center because she was interested in communicating with someone on a long term basis. At the counseling center the patient picked up an application which I thought was a good solution to her problem. I think I am getting more comfortable with communicating with patients on my own.

Written reports or case notes of each session will be completed. You, the client, will review and sign the reports at the end of each session. These will be placed in your clinical file and maintained by Trinity Counseling for 7 years, after which, they will be destroyed.

In agreement with federal and state law requirements, the Collison Counseling Center believes it is your right as a client to understand the counseling philosophy and services provided at this facility. Therefore, we ask that you carefully read through the following information and sign where indicated. Should there be anything you do not fully understand, please feel free to ask questions. A copy of this Informed Consent Form will be furnished for your records.

Tidewater Community College counseling center mission is to provide quality service to individuals and groups helping them define and achieve their educational, career, and personal goals, empowering them to contribute as workers and citizens to the vitality of a dynamic community. The counseling center provides educational and personal counseling to Tidewater Community College students in which race/ethnicity student demographics comprise of White, African American, American Indian, Asian, Hispanic, Pacific Islander, and International students.

Counseling and delivering services under the “best practice” should always be the goal of a practitioner. In a field such as counseling, where the lives of others are being impacted, making specific choices on how to deliver services, and making a choice to choose one form of therapy over another is pertinent to not only the successful rehabilitation of a client, but to also ensure the longevity of yourself as a practitioner and as a counselor. Practicing techniques or alternative forms of therapy which are based off of literature which is not evidenced-based can lead a practitioner to unethical practices which can eventually mean revocation of

Ms. Buttercup is a single 20-year-old pregnant Asian female presented to the TCC counseling center with the complaint of failing classes and feeling anxious about a lack of prenatal care. Ms. Buttercup lives with her mother, father, and younger sister. She is a full-time student who is presently unemployed. Moreover, Ms. Buttercup’s ex- fiancé (the father of her unborn child) has recently called off their engagement in view of the fact they were having financial issues. Per the client, their separation has also increased her anxiety. Ms. Buttercup appeared distressed and complained that she was concerned about her unborn child.

On the other hand, this auditory hallucination experience really helped me to understand more about hallucinations,

Rosenhan's study was done in two parts. The first part involved the use of healthy associates who briefly simulated auditory hallucinations in an attempt to gain admission to 12 different psychiatric hospitals in five different states in various locations in the United States. All were admitted and diagnosed with psychiatric disorders. After admission, the pseudopatients acted normally and told staff that they felt fine and had not experienced any more hallucinations. All were forced to admit to having a

Multiple regression analysis was run to predict hallucination history from source monitoring variables; speak vs. hear and imagine vs. hear. The model statistically significantly predicted hallucination history, F(2, 177) = 171.7, p < .000, adj. R2 = 65.6%. All variables added statistically significantly to the prediction, p < .05

This essay is an evaluation of two counselling models applied to a situation where a client has experienced loss and how a counsellor can create a therapeutic relationship with the client using each counselling model. It will also contain other skills a counsellor could use to obtain/maintain a good therapeutic relationship with the client.