counselling journal 1

Counselling is a contracted professionally managed activity. In addition to this the counsellor will be trained and have a counselling qualification. This enables the counsellor to use a different range of counselling approaches with their clients. Whereas counselling skills is not contracted and the person is usually referred to as a helper who apply their counselling skills to increase their communication with the receiver.
Many people seek counselling for a variety of reasons that are troubling them to resolve especially personal, social, or psychological problems and difficulties.
The counselling process has to be voluntary by the client. The client can request counselling or the client could be referred by a professional with the consent of the client. It’s also important that the client sees the other person only as a counsellor and not in any other role. Counsellors are bound by a formal code of ethics and practice.
The counselling process is when the client and counsellor agree a set time in order to explore the difficulties which may include the emotional feelings of the client. Trust and confidentiality between the counsellor and client is paramount to successful counselling. However, counsellors will explain the confidentiality agreement as they may on occasions have to disclose information where they believe that there could be a risk to life. Subsequently changes to a contract can only be made with the agreement of the client. The counsellor will support and help the client to see things more clearly, possibly from a different view-point, focus on feelings, experiences or behaviour with a goal to facilitating positive change. This can enable the client to talk openly and freely which they possibly cannot do with family and friends as they are likely to be emotionally involved. In addition to it also gives the client an opportunity to express difficult feelings such as anger, resentment, guilt and fear in a confidential environment. Effective