Counseling Reflection

During this semester in our Counseling in Rehabilitation Services class, I can honestly say that I have learned a lot. When I first started the class, I thought we were going to have actual therapy sessions and that we would be meeting with an actual counselor. Which I was excited for, but also nervous because I didn’t know what to expect. When I started the class, I was surprised to learn that we would be learning counseling skills and be practicing them ourselves in our own groups. I was excited for this because I know that it somehow benefit me in my future career goals. In my paper, I will be discussing some of the things that I learn through our in-class practice and working within groups for example: about rapport, human relationships, …show more content…
Not only practice the counseling’s skills, but it gave me a real experience. Rapport; is something that I learned is crucial in therapeutic relationship, it’s basically your foundation for a successful session. If your client does not feel comfortable, judge free, or important, then you will not achieve your set goals for them. During your session you have to fully committed to your client, have open ears and really listen to what they are telling you. When we first started our groups I was usually was just the observer, but I noticed that I would just kind of loose focus and not pay attention, even though I wasn’t the counselor, I noticed one time that the client would stop and loos her train of thought just because I wasn’t paying attention. It was such a little detail that really made a huge difference. In our group when we would begin a session we would find it so hard to pick a topic to talk about when we were put in the client position, but when we all discussed why it was so hard in the beginning is because we didn’t really know each other and we weren’t comfortable opening up. So after a couple sessions we found it easier to talk to each other because we all grew a close relationship, built rapport. We talked about our lives outside of school and when our next class session would come before we would start our activity we would talk amongst ourselves about anything interesting news that has happened to us. Which I found out also really helped grow a closer bond between