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A Client's Perspective of Spiritual Counselling: A Case Study
Counselling is a supportive process that can help an individual release negative patterns and beliefs. Finding the ideal form of counselling for you, however, may sometimes require an open mind and a ...
A Client's Perspective: Case Study
Counselling is a private and personal experience that provides a positive outlet for anyone experiencing emotional difficulties. Understanding the role it plays in helping and supporting individuals w...
A Counsellor's Job Profile
Working as a counsellor can offer you a rewarding package. You can have the feeling-good aspect of helping others to overcome personal problems and issues, as well as the financial reward, gained with...
A Counsellor's Perspective of Spiritual Counselling: A Case Study
Identifying personal gifts and skills inspired a former housing officer to retrain as a holistic counsellor. Offering Flow Coaching to clients now provides this facilitator with a greater sense of per...
A Counsellor's Perspective: Case Study
There are many aspects of a counsellor's job that may not be apparent, when considering attending counselling sessions or training to become a counsellor. Exploring what they actually do, day-to-day, ...
Active Listening Skills
Surprisingly there is more to active listening than just waiting your turn to speak. In order to encourage positive communication with a client counsellors must understand the principles of active lis...
Advantages and Disadvantages of Distance Learning
For heavily timed-restricted students Distance Learning provides the ideal solution to the majority of their further education concerns. Qualifications can be gained from the comfort of your own home,...
An Introduction to Counselling Skills
Whilst many students enrolling on an Introductory Counselling Skills course may decide to continue training to become a counsellor, the range of skills explored on this type of course can be put to eq...
Are You a Suitable Case for Counselling?
Do you have difficulty expressing emotional concerns or identifying issues? Acknowledging that there are many reasons why an individual seeks counselling support may help you identify whether or not y...
Attending Skills
Attending requires that a counsellor’s physical and psychological attention is directed at the client throughout the counselling session. This can be difficult to maintain but is the foundation to bui...
Attitudes and Qualities of a Counsellor
To build the ideal counselling relationship a counsellor must demonstrate a clear understanding of the principles of counselling, but also show they possess vital qualities, attributes and attitudes. ...
Becoming a counsellor: A guide
Ever thought about a career in counselling? Not sure where to start? Or maybe you've just finished your counselling training and don't know what to do now? Our helpful guide offers information such as...
Beginning a Counselling Session
A counselling session provides an opportunity for the client to explore their personal thoughts, feelings and emotions. It also allows the counsellor to assess the difficulties and problems and to sup...
Body Dysmorphia Counselling Support
Body Dysmorphic Disorder, or BDD, is a difficult to diagnose mental health issue that affects people of any age. Although perceived as an imagined condition the symptoms and anxiety it creates are ver...
Career Counselling
Counselling does not only cover emotional issues and difficulties. Career Counselling provides a confidential method of assessing you abilities, whilst exploring thoughts and feelings surrounding your...
Cognitive Approaches to Counselling
By applying additional forms of therapeutic study, a counsellor can provide a client with further support. Using cognitive approaches allows a client to experience, understand and acknowledge their fe...
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is perhaps the most widely recognised form of talking therapy counselling support. It provides clients with a workable method of identifying a problem and of altering the...
Counselling and Self Awareness
Self-awareness is something that is explored over a period of time, and includes understanding personal values, attitudes and beliefs. Working within a therapeutic environment can impact on a counsell...
Counselling Course Assessments
The assessment of counselling skills coursework defines a student’s ability and capabilities, and provides all the relevant information required, by the Assessment and Qualifications board, before an ...
Counselling Do You Have What it Takes?
Counselling is a rewarding profession that requires a developed level of self-knowledge, understanding, empathy and listening ability. For these reasons only certain types of people are suited to, or ...
Counselling in the Workplace
Counselling in the workplace can minimise stress, illness and mental health issues whilst increasing job satisfaction and productivity. Offering this confidential, facilitating service in the workplac...
Counselling Self Harmers
Providing counselling support to a young person who self-harms requires considerable understanding of the emotional situation and skills in building self-confidence....
Counselling Supportline Training
Individuals in need of emotional support can access care and guidance on the telephone. This type of supportline counselling service is available 24 hours a day and provided by professionally trained ...
Counselling Using the Sedona Method
The Sedona Method is a duplicate releasing technique that can be successfully used in all manner of counselling practices and programmes....
Counselling Victims of Alcohol, Drugs and AIDS
Counselling clients who have dependency issues offers qualified counsellors an opportunity to explore their knowledge of the many benefits of counselling. It also enables counsellors to work with clie...
Counselling Within a General Practice
Counselling in the community provides not only an additional skills and another therapeutic relationship experience for the counsellor, but also many benefits to the patient. ...
Counselling Young People
Counselling children and young people provides a supportive service that allows this age group to explore, and understand, their feelings, thoughts and emotions. It can also bridge the gap in family s...
Eating Disorder Counselling Support
Obsessing about food and calories can sometimes be about more than just worrying about fitting in your clothes. Eating disorders are the outcome of suppressed emotional issues. With counselling suppor...
Entry Requirements for Counselling Courses
When it comes to enrolling on a Counselling course, in the UK there are currently minimal entry requirements. Once students have obtained an Introductory level certificate then can make steady progres...
Exploring Self Counselling
Self-Counselling provides a useful method of increasing self-awareness by opening the door to issues and concerns caused by the pressures of daily life. In order to get the most benefit from the proce...
Further Training and Career Development
Counselling is fast becoming an increasingly popular career choice. Due to the current lack of professional registration requirements however, counselling students would be wise to continue developing...
How Do I Transfer My Counselling Skills?
Transferring skills requires that you gather as much information as possible about the career you are interested in following, before tailoring your experience....
How to Avoid Burnout as a Counsellor
Burnout is what happens when excessive stress, performance pressure and overwhelming demands collide and result in a lack of motivation, empowerment, joy and meaningfulness. Understanding that burnout...
How to Cope Between Counselling Sessions
Counselling sessions are generally arranged at regular weekly intervals. This allows sufficient time for thoughts, understanding and acknowledgement of the issues discussed to be absorbed by the clien...
How to Develop Self Awareness
Without having a sense of personal awareness your personal growth and development cannot expand and improve. Listening to your psyche and identifying your personal needs will get you started....
How to Find the Right Counsellor for You
A client presenting a number of issues, that require resolving, should seek the supportive services of a counsellor who covers a variety of emotional issues. Finding the right counsellor for your pers...
How to Make a Camp Community Safe for Children?
Allowing children the freedom to experience a camp community will enable them to become more responsible and independent. However, it is wise to check that the camp's safety and security measures live...
How to use Counselling and Psychotherapy Resources
The latest developments, information and counselling support is easily accessible to all counsellors wanting to provide additional advice and assistance to their clients. These resources are easy to u...
How to Use Person Centred Self Counselling
Being person-centred is not the same as being self-centred. The latter focus solely on an individual's interest in him or herself, whilst being person-centred creates an understanding of personal awar...
Humanistic Approach to Counselling
Humanistic counselling offers the client an opportunity to explore the whole self, instead of specific problems or issues relating to particular periods in their life. It can provide a deeper understa...
Maintaining Patient Confidentiality
The maintenance of a client’s confidentiality must be of the highest priority at all times, throughout the duration of a client-counsellor relationship. Although there are obviously exceptions to this...
Paid Counselling Opportunities
As the interest in counselling continues to steadily rise the number of paid counselling vacancies available continues to decrease. Demand for full-time or part-time paid employment is so high that qu...
Protecting Yourself from Abuse
A counsellor’s mental wellbeing and ability to offer the appropriate support is as important as a client’s confidentiality and personal safety. Although a Code of Ethics may govern good practice, it i...
Protecting Yourself from Occupational Stress
For many people occupational stress and burn-out form part of their job description. Those in the counselling profession however, must maintain good personal mental health and wellbeing in order to be...
Psychodynamic Approaches to Counselling
There are a multitude of counselling approaches that a counsellor, psychotherapist or therapeutic professional may employ throughout the counselling process. A psychodynamic approach opens up the chan...
Psychodynamic Therapy
Psychodynamic counselling allows the client to express emotions, feelings and thoughts with very little verbal input from the counsellor. It is the counsellor's role to provide support and empower, an...
Questionnaire: Are You Counsellor Material?
If you are good with people and enjoy helping others to achieve more counselling could be a career choice worth considering. Do you have what it takes to make a successful counsellor however?...
Responding and Reflective Skills
There are many ways of offering a positive response to something someone has said, that encourages the speaker to continue disclosing. In a counselling relationship however, the counsellor must provid...
Specialist Training For Counsellors
Having gained a Counselling Skills qualification many students decide to develop their skills further by training in a Specialist Counselling area. Whether committing to further coursework or training...
The Cost of Training to be a Counsellor
The cost of training to become a Counsellor varies considerably, not only between courses and course providers, but also in the preferred method of learning and the time required. Thoroughly researchi...
The Difference Between Counselling and Psychotherapy
Understanding the key differences between counselling and psychotherapy can make all the difference to the impact therapeutic treatment has on a client. Although there are a number of similarities bet...
The Facts About Marriage Counselling
Contrary to popular belief marriage counselling is not a one-stop, quick fix relationship solution. Understanding the possibilities- as well as limitations - that this supportive service provides will...
The Five Stages of Dealing With Issues
Coping with difficult situations in life requires working through a cycle of understanding that takes an individual from denial to acceptance. Understanding the need to experience the different levels...
The Importance of Counselling Sabbaticals
Taking time away from the demand of a normal working routine is essential for therapists working within counselling and caring professions. A sabbatical allows for flexible, personalised breaks to be ...
The Importance of Self-Counselling
Self-counselling is an important, useful and additional tool to use alongside other forms of therapeutic counselling. It does however, provide positive results if used independently, although a lot mo...
The Merits of Co-counselling
Unlike traditional forms of counselling co-counselling provides an opportunity to explore personal problems and issues whilst supporting others working their way through the same process....
The Most Important Client Do's and Don'ts
Any form of confidential counselling service has professional etiquette to maintain and strict guidelines to adhere to. These are in place to ensure clients receive the best level of professional serv...
The Myths about Counselling
As with any positive form of therapy there are many negative misconceptions and myths surrounding Counselling. Exploring the benefits will enable a potential client to identify ways they can begin to ...
The Person Centered Approach to Counselling
Person centred counselling focuses of the client's ability to think in the here and now, and to create their own clarity and understanding of personal issues and problems....
The Relationship Between the Counsellor and the Client
A successful counsellor/client relationship can only be formed if boundaries, confidentiality and trust are clearly expressed at the start of the counselling process. Ensuring a client feels safe and ...
Unconditional Positive Regard
Unconditional Positive Regard is the total acceptance of another person, and forms a key component of the counselling skills a counsellor must demonstrate in any client-counsellor relationship and con...
Understanding Personality Theories
Understanding who we are, and what makes us tick, requires a great deal of personal awareness. Accepting that our unique personality also has an important part to play in our acceptance and understand...
Understanding Self Acceptance
Self-acceptance comes from within but impacts on our relationship with the outside world. Acknowledging that you may have reactions, behaviours and habits you do not accept will help you identify posi...
Using your Personal Qualities, Skills and Knowledge
A combination of skills, qualities, attributes, abilities and knowledge all form part of a Counsellor’s personal skills requirements. Without a broad understanding and an interest in self-development,...
Voluntary Counselling Opportunities
Working within the voluntary sector provides many counsellors with a valuable opportunity to increase their understanding of the counselling process, whilst also developing personal skills and increas...
Web Cam Counselling
Accessing counselling services, using a web cam and VOIP link, provides an alternative method of establishing an emotional connection that creates a positive means of exploring emotional issues....
What Are Talking Therapies?
There are many different types of talking therapy available and an equal number of supportive health care professionals who provide this kind of service....
What Counselling is Not
In order to accept the many positive ways in which counselling can impact on your life it is important to understand what counselling is not....
What is Counselling?
Counselling is an empowering process that encourages individuals to confront issues and problems, and to work at restoring well-being. A counsellor will provide a safe, confidential environment where ...
What is Lay Counselling?
Although trained, and knowledgeable, a lay counsellor provides valuable additional support to individuals experiencing emotional hardship. This type of support complements the work of qualified counse...
What Qualifications are Needed?
If you already have some experience of counselling the study options available to you will be more flexible than if you have no experience in this field. However, whatever qualifications you already h...
Will You Benefit from Self-counselling?
Taking on the task of self-counselling should not be taken lightly. Whilst there may be many valuable insights and personal challenges to be explored, there will also be drawbacks to consider....
Working from a Private Practice
Like almost any other profession counselling can be viewed as a successful business, particularly by practitioners working from within a private practice. However, making the decision to work privatel...