Describe Some Aspect/S of Your Learning About Helping in a Counselling Way, and What This Has Taught You About Yourself

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Describe some aspect/s of your learning about helping in a counselling way, and what this has taught you about yourself In this essay I will explore my learning about importance of active listening, role of empathy, impacts that transference and countertransference have in counselling, as well as the importance of supervision for counsellors. Through examples from my experiential learning in class, my reflection on the influence of a long forgotten experience from my teenager years on my adult life and journal entries, I will illustrate how this course has helped me in heightening my self-awareness and learning about myself. Helping in a counselling way can be interpreted in two different ways; one is helping by using counselling skills, to assist someone in their professional role, the other is use of counselling skills by trained counselling professional. When a doctor or a nurse is listening to a patient during consultation, they use counselling skills to help them in understanding and supporting their patient in addition to their medical expertise. When counselling professional is listening to their client, they are using counselling skills as the main tool in applying their expertise, as this definition illustrates: Counselling, often described as ‘talking therapy’, is a process aimed at providing clients with the time and space to explore their problems, understand their problems, and resolve, or come to terms with their problems , in confidential setting. (Sutton and Stewart 2008). In practising counselling skills, counselling professionals have clear aim in assisting their client while their practice is governed by counselling ethics. In the United Kingdom, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) is the largest organisation that governs work of counselling professionals. One skill that makes possible for all other counselling

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