Reflective Essay On Counselling Skills

Furthermore, I learned through out this module how much listening is important as a counsellor and how it is on of the biggest skills that i would need as an youth worker. As I counselled, It became evident to me that when I would stop paying attention for a short while I would stop the counselling session as I would cutting off the person I was counselling. During these sessions I would not be able to know get the grasp on when I was meant paraphrase or reflect back the feelings, however i soon realised that this was my fault as i would start to think about irrelevant stuff. Nevertheless, when i noticed that i was not giving my all to the task and when I realised this I tried my hardest to pay attention to the sessions. Due to this reason I became aware of if I was to be counselling a young person, I would have not only made them stop expressing themselves as …show more content…
Through, one of my counselling session Angela spoke about her having difficulties coping with certain aspects of her live as I droned in on the last very bit of what she was saying I cut in as said “you have a choice to make, and that choice would change everything you are going through you just took a back seat and let this all happen but you can change that by taking steps to obtain your freedom.” I found myself slipping in Existential counselling where I was trying to make Angela realise that she let these issues take effect in her life and only she could change that by recognising alternative methods on which she can change her living. This was the result of me zoning in and out the conversation and only picking up her saying she does not have any freedom no