The Importance Of The Exploration Stage In Counseling

The goal for the Exploration stage in counseling is to build rapport with your client, gather information about the problem at hand and the background of your client, and experience emotion. What we as a counselor hope to accomplish in this stage is to basically build a relationship and trust with our client. Our goals as a counselor in the insight stage is to get our client to see themselves objectively, helping them see the pattern and why they respond to it in a certain way, and make discoveries about yourself. What we hope to accomplish is simply getting the client to the point where they see their problem, why it’s a problem, and that they can change it. In our last stage, the action stage, our goal is to come up with solutions with the client and walk them through the different solutions, and then get them to choose the best outcome for them and put into their daily life. We hope that after this stage our client will be able to solve their problem and be able to eventually …show more content…
Interpretation is a statement that goes beyond what the client had overtly said and gives new meaning, reason, or explanation for behaviors, thought, and feelings. My intention for using interpretation was to get the client to see the “real reason” behind the problem she had come in with. When I said this in the session my client reacted by responding “yes, but I never really could get it out of my head, that my mom couldn’t punish me anymore.” Afterwards when I told my client that this was the example I had written down, she responded “I agree the mom was the real reason why this person was so neat”. My intention was accomplished because I got my client to realize that her mom couldn’t punish her like that