What I found most useful about the reading was the clear message for advocacy on behalf of the counselor. Therefore, the counselor has to expand and not take on the ordianry counselor role, instead push boundaries, advocate, and do more than the norm. For example, "The belief is that helping professionals can no longer operate solely from the comfort of their offices if they wish to better serve their constituencies". Advocating for the client is huge because the counselor becomes the voice of the voiceless. Furthermore, the counselor needs to change to more of an ecological perspective to have a well-rounded understanding of the client. As the reading mentioned that the client is sometimes misunderstood because the environment is not taken
