After pulling myself together I began the counselling session by using the the five stages of counselling .
Firstly I began with building an Empathic Relationship with the client and started the session with informing the client about the informed consent and briefly going over the guidelines and informing the clients about their rights and if they felt uncomfortable and wanted to discontinue the session their could do so. I then began to build a rapport by …show more content…
Lastly, Action used in this session is the client agreeing to complete Anger Management counselling and to come back for follow up session. Skill used in this stage is open question and summarizing to follow up on goals and achievement from previous session.
Area for growth is to used the Basic Listening Skills and relate them more to the counselling session . I felt that I could used a lot more of the focusing and exploration skills in my counselling session . I also felt that because I was nervous I wasn’t able to get more information from my client and use more reflection of feeling towards her so that I could get her to open up more about the abuse from her boyfriend and why she never disclose this to anyone else before the session. Also I needed to implement more goals for the client and have her follow through on them to empower and guide her to make decision that would change her current