Counselling Session Essay

Counselling session can facilitate the process of overcoming or working through personal issues from everyday hardship as well as potentially life threatening situations. This reflective essay will analyse a counselling session that I have attended with a professional counsellor. Her name was Hend. The session was to be recorded so I can refer to particular examples during the session. In this reflective essay I will give an overview of the counselling session as well as a discussion of my feelings before, during and after the session. Key skills used by the counsellor such as active listening, reflective skills and empathy will be explained, supported with verbatim examples from the session. Furthermore, the overall experiences and response to the session will be provided. The theories of recognised intellectuals in the field of counselling and psychotherapy will support my material and facilitate in learning the basic skills that I need to poses as a future counsellor.
I attended a counselling session as I was required in order to complete this assignment. The counsellor that I saw has been working in a Community Mental Health Institution for many years. She also had a private room where I had my counselling session. The issue that was discussed with the counsellor was my fears and concerns about my physical health. I have had this problem for many years now, since I was very young. At some stage, when I was studying in high school my condition got better, but a few years after that I started getting even worse. I have had many blood tests, heart checks and nothing showed any major concern. This has been affecting my life as I cannot do things that I enjoy doing. I always have the thought in my mind that I have some serious disease or that I will faint and I am constantly checking my heart rate. The counsellor has helped me to become more aware of that thought and taught me some techniques on how to prevent that thought from developing.
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