My Natural Listening Abilities

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My natural counseling abilities lie in active listening, and mindful of what affects my mood when it comes to self-actualization, self-awareness, self-fulfillment, and self-discovery of the intellect and body (D’Andrea, Daniels, & Heck, 2015). In addition, empathy and the ability to feel what other people are feeling. I comprehend what it means to stand in someone else’s shoes. I am affectionate, positive, and agreeable, but can be stubborn and competitive sometimes, as well as, reliable, loyal, and moderately well organized and gregarious which is a measure of the preference for other people's company (D’Andrea et al., 2015).
Why I reckon these are my natural counseling abilities, according to Robinson-Wood (2013), I have moved into the

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