How Counselling Helps You Now and in the Future

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Doing the counselling Unit in Health and Social Care recently has made me look at problems and situations with a broader and open mind. I feel like I can help people with their problems, by using active listening to help them and give them advice and feedback. I help them by asking them open questions so there will always be a relevant answer and it will keep the conversation going to get to the root of the problem. I reckon this will help me in the future as I could explore my own emotions and feelings. This will particularly help me at university because I know I will worry and be concerned about getting work done on time and to a high quality, so I can work through my feelings and emotions to live a more enjoyable life knowing I can keep on top of my workload. I have learnt that counselling isn’t about giving advice; it is about unravelling people’s thoughts and feelings that are in their way. Once they are unravelled that person can live a happier and fulfilling life. I have also learnt that it is about being reflective too people and being showing empathy towards them. I have also learnt that you need skills like active listening, clarification, reflection and effective questioning skills. I might need to use these skills in the future by if I am working with children I could use empathy by gaining better relationships with the children. This will hopefully make the children manage their difficult emotions, soothe themselves, have good social skills and are liked by their class peers. I have used these skills in Sixth Form when there was a big falling out in my main friendship group. I had to be empathetic towards the people who had fallen out, where I had to understand and share the feelings of both the people that had fallen out, and the feelings of the rest of the group. I used my active listening and reflective listening skills by hearing both
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