Influencing skills are trying to get the client to change their emotions based on their situation. However, influencing skills are used to help clients change their personal construct, behavior, coping skills, and decision making by using confrontation, feedback, self-discourse, focusing the narrative, eliciting and reflecting meaning, interpretation, and reframing skills. First, if you use confrontation in a positive way, then you can get the client to change. Next, when a counselor use the feedback skill you are pointing out the positive or negative things the client is doing while telling their story. Moreover, when a client uses the self-disclosure skill they are telling something about themselves to connect with the client. Also, once
