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
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Overall‚ I did an okay job facilitating the session. I believe that had strong moments for example the role paly. In addition‚ near the start of the session (5:50)‚ I was able to go deeper with the client and explore her feeling of vulnerability. The client mentioned the feeling of losing‚ so I asked her to explore this further. When the client began to explore how it felt to lose she explained it felt vulnerable. When I confronted her about feeling vulnerable around her mother‚ she responded with
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In this essay I will analyse my own counselling session in which my counsellor‚ Lys‚ and I established a cause for the anxiety I was feeling. As part of this analysis‚ I will identify key skills used to establish an effective counselling relationship. Reflecting upon my experience of the counselling process and integrating it to current theory will enable me to use this experience to develop my own skills as a counsellor. To facilitate my analysis‚ it is necessary for me to not only define what
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Analyse A personal counselling session Counselling Skills 1 Counselling sessions can help us work through a range of personal issues from everyday hardships to potentially life threatening situations. In this reflective essay I propose to put theory to practice by analysing and reflecting upon a one hour session with a professional counsellor. The session is to be recorded so I can refer to particular
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Counselling a stranger can be difficult‚ counselling a friend is fraught with difficulties. I found this practice session particularly challenging as I asked a very old friend to play the part of the client. I understand as a result of this session why being a therapist for family and close friends is not advised. Even though I was playing the role of the counsellor‚ my inner self was in a constant tug-of-war between being a friend and keeping a professional step back as required by a counsellor
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of the counselling session I conducted and recorded. This will include a summary of the session. I will also describe the micro and advanced counselling skills utalised‚ as well as a critical evaluation of their effectiveness. A discussion of my application of these skills‚ as well as areas of possible improvement will supported by reference to relevant literature. Summary of the session. Leesa is a 37-year-old woman who I have seen around four months previously. At the previous session Leesa
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the stages of a series of counselling sessions The beginning The beginning of the counselling process starts when the client first meets the counsellor‚ the saying “first impressions count” is absolutely true for both the client and counsellor‚ the client will be very nervous and unsure what is about to take place. The way the counsellor approaches the client in this infant stage is vital for the client to gain trust and has the willingness to open up in later sessions. Some clients may just rush
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Explain the importance of closing a session Each counselling session is likely to be emotive which will leave the client vulnerable to the outside world of the counselling room. Since some difficult topics are likely to be discussed and the client is likely to express a variety of emotions‚ it can be hard to bring a session to an end. Sometimes it can feel that the timing of the endings is insensitive to the clients needs. It is extremely important to summarise accurately and sensitively to confirm
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Task 1: Describe the purpose and nature of counselling The function of personal counselling is to help people to resolve problem areas in their life. Counselling provides an opportunity for the person to explore the difficult feelings‚ thoughts and behaviours that have blocked the way to satisfying relationships‚ personal happiness. The purpose of counselling is to help clients achieve their personal goals‚ and gain greater insight into their lives. One hopes that by the end of this process one
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us or we just do not have the appropriate person to turn to. In these conditions‚ counselling is a really useful option. 2.0 DEFINITION OF COUNSELLING People have always turned to others for help in crisis. In the 20th century‚ perhaps with the decline in formal religious belief in Western cultures‚ there has been a growth in the helping professions‚ such as counselling (Encarta Encyclopedia‚ 2003). Counselling includes the skills of helping people to cope with personal difficulties through
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