Identifying Blind Spots In Counseling

The counselor can help a client identify blind spots and continuing to provide empathy and support thru highlighting points that the client shared. By highlighting the client will pick up and give hunts to the client about the blind spots. There will also be times were the client is not conscious about their blind spots and the counselor needs to be patient and not overwhelm the client. The counselor should be aware that blind spots are obstacles and clients tend to not see it because they are afraid of being judge. Egan (2012) found common blind spots “Blind spots that get people in trouble failure to think things through, always having the right answers, failure to pick up cues and clues and notice what’s going on, lack of self-awareness,