Self Reflection

My roles as a therapist in the counseling process within community and private mental health system, I am there to help my client and listen to them. Before I

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.

This paper will provide the reader with a reflection of my professional identity. This will focus on the role of a professional counselor and the differences between a professional counselor and other related professionals. It will also integrate how religious and spiritual beliefs can impact professional counseling. It will summarize my beliefs and values and what I plan to do so that I will not impose my beliefs on clients. Also, I will reflect on what I have learned during this course and how it will impact my future as a counselor.

As a professional, I plan to continue to promote personal growth in clients while assisting in promoting healthy relationships in their lives. There are a number of ethical guidelines counselors should already know to follow, for example, confidentiality. I will always maintain the confidentiality of clients. This is important because it promotes privacy, security and above all trust in the relationship between the client and the professional. Another personal value that aligns with the profession is beneficence, which is one of the ethical principles. My goal in life is to help people in need. I do not mind going beyond my call of duty to help others. I do not wish to stand by when I know a client needs support. All my work will be done to benefit clients and reduce their struggles. This is why I would like to enter the professional field of working with and providing services to

I am currently a student at the University of Texas at San Antonio for almost a whole semester now. I came to this school straight out of high school, not knowing what I was getting myself into. During my high school years, I was good at every subject except my writing class. Coming to UTSA, I knew I was going to struggle in my writing class, but that didn’t discourage me from not trying my best in the course. Going through the English program, I realized that I have some strengths and weaknesses in the class, and it encouraged me to do better. The essays I have written for this class demonstrate that I have developed a strong thesis, organization skills, and detail; however, I still need to improve on grammar, keeping the POV, and citing.

As a counselor one should have an appreciation for cultural diversity and eliminate judgmental thoughts. Suspending thoughts and judgments in the effort to hear a client’s feelings and understand their perspective of their world, is a form of empathy. The counseling environment needs to be a safe place for a client to share their most intimate concerns. Unconditional positive regard is an essential characteristic also. “Emotional warmth, appropriate reassurance, the communication of confidence and interest in the client (Seligman & Reichenberg, 2014). Congruence, the characteristic that provide clients with clear and honest communication is effective in

The client must be willing to trust the counselor. The counselor-client relationship is based on counseling approach as well as relationship with the client. The counselor’s role is to understand the client’s needs, and to develop the proper plan that fits the client’s needs. In my opinion, the goal for counselors is to give individuals the proper tools to manage their clients maladaptive thought behaviors and to apply them when their problems flare. The understanding of the client’s needs and using the proper counseling approach or theory to reach their goal of the client is idealistic for the

They must provide a non-judgmental environment so that the client feel respected, and of value to openly discuss life events, behaviors, feeling, and thoughts. The Professional Counselor’s role is to create this climate for the clients to examine their emotions to arrive at solutions that is best for the clients. The professional’s assignment is to assist the individuals in finding solutions that are most corresponding with their own values, not to persuade the clients by imposing their values on the client.

Counseling is a safe, accepting, and comfortable way for you, the client, to share personal problems and stories. Counseling can help with self-awareness, self-acceptance, and growth for the client. Clients come to therapy because they want change, solve a problem, or bring a healthier balance to life. Clients should be aware that despite the fact that counseling can be fun

The most important thing a counselor can do to understand perception and worldview of a client is to maintain an acceptable and nonjudgement stance. At the same time, their

As everybody is different and comes from different backgrounds, therefore give us all different values and beliefs, it is important to have an effective client-counsellor relationship based on four main areas of duty of care 1. Helper competence, 2. Client autonomy, 3. Confidentiality, 4. Client protection (Nelson-Jones, 2008). There will be times throughout the sessions with clients that your own values and belief creep in, and you do make judgement, therefore you as a counsellor have to know and acknowledge this happen and understand why it is happening.

During the presentation, the team adapted the demonstration method inside of welcoming, did not perform encouragement for the audience to join the movie night and help out the charity. The plain slides style did not provide secure engagement and visual appeal. Ticketing system explanation was made

When I stare at a blank page of paper today, I am able to visualize the many possibilities of its potential use a much more than compared to when I was younger. When I was about elementary/middle school age, black sheets of paper brought the expectation of notes in classes such as Ms. Chilikoff’s history and language arts, Mrs. Williams’s math class, and Mrs. Apodaca’s science lectures. It brings memories of procrastination and hesitation as to how to begin my essays on trivial topics that didn’t particularly leave a lasting impression on my learning experience. I just remember the anxious feeling of trying to be “perfect” on the first try, trying to force myself to start long projects so I wouldn't stress as much, and the therapeutic doodles as I constantly get sidetracked from my work.

“Mommy, why can’t we catch the water?” I think that was one of my earliest questions about the world. It was sometime before kindergarten, maybe even before preschool. A time when I didn’t even know what science was, but I was thinking about it. About the what, the how, and the why. I knew that I drank water, that I used it to wash my hands, and that it flowed. And yet I couldn’t take it at face value - I was familiar with it, but did not understand it. My first memory of curiosity, the first of many.

At school and at work I’ve always found myself in leadership roles. I am good at helping people find what they ‘re best at. Once at school there was a crisis at our flight school. One of our student pilots had just landed a training aircraft without retracting the landing gear. The crew was severely injured and the aircraft was damaged beyond repair. We were soon to be swamped with angry parents and news reporters. We had about five minutes to prepare and everyone was nervous and didn’t know what to do to get ready. It was chaos there wasn’t a real leader we were all at the same level so I just took the reins. I put our best communicators at the front line, and then a few of us stayed in the back to try to mitigate the problem. It was a long day, but we were all dedicated to resolving the problem. It was hectic and a real rush.