Reflection On Counselling Session

To start off this week’s reflection piece, despite continuing to have some lingering feelings of un-comfort and/or uneasiness alike to last week’s session, especially prior to and during the early beginnings of the counselling session, for similar reasons. However, if one were to ask me to describe session and/or recount the session, emotions and feelings such as confidence, and satisfaction, would be the descriptive words that come to mind. One of the reasons for this I believe, is the emergence of the client’s overall engagement, as well as involvement with regards to goal setting, towards the midst and ending of the session, where such seemed to be minimal or non-existent upon the beginning of the session. For instance, one of the earlier …show more content…
a "dysfunctional family," what do you think may be another good goal,? What is something that you did prior, that you enjoyed and want to get back into. Following this statement with, during our first few sessions you mentioned, prior to this past August, how involved you were in a couple of volunteering opportunities, having volunteered within your school library and such. Only after this, did she state wanting to get re-involved with the library and further detail all that was involved in the experience, why she enjoyed it, and how she would once again like to participate. This last portion in which she further discussed the opportunity, without being asked or required to do so, touches on the engagement aspect mentioned earlier, and is something that I am proud of …show more content…
At this point, the client has now asserted that yes; she would like to return to volunteering with the library. Now the question becomes how you will go about doing so, thus, I ask, what do you think would be a good first step in getting re-involved with the library, to which she responded, "go inside,” thus, leaving one with a minimal response once again. What I would like to speak to here is, where we came into the discussion with the response of, I’ll “go inside” the library, we left with the conclusion of the sub-goals of I still have the program coordinator’s e-mail, I will e-mail her to inform her that I am interested in volunteering once again, in addition to dropping by the library, and paying her a visit in-person the next time I am at school. What is also key, is that