Personal Reflection On The Last Session Jaren

Introduction
Throughout the seven sessions that Jaren and I did I was able to develop my helper skills immensely. From the initial relationship building session we were able to connect on a deep level I suppose since we are alike in multiple ways. During the session, this relationship continued to grow and I was able to use skills from body language to reflect feelings. I was also able to work on some of my limitations, for example, challenging, and questioning. Nevertheless, within the sessions, I was also able to keep to our plan at large and manage time well, though I was a smidgen disappointed with my time management in the last session later. We were able to interview, assess, make goals, and do a few different types of interventions as …show more content…
This time I gave it a lot of thought because of everything we had been through. In the past, the classes where I did these kinds of sessions I had different people for each session, or I was with a group of people and we did not legitimately do a big final session. This time because we had been together for the whole semester and worked through personal challenges for both of us I felt as if this was a bigger deal. I wanted to use the last session to give us a sense of being finished with this type of relationship. I fully suspect that we will be friends for life, but the way we did this final session helped close our professional helper/client relationship in a healthy manner. After we finished the intense part it was perfect to go for tea and a cookie together as we switched from the helper/client role back into friendship. Jaren gave me a beautiful scrapbook to plan my future in and I was able to tell her that I had a gift coming in the form of a scarf, something I have since given her. These allowed us to share our creativity with one another, something I consider to be special to both of us and it was remarkable to be able to share …show more content…
Sometimes it is crucial to have a moment of silence. As I realized this I started to implement it into my session, mainly in the last session where I straight out said that we would take a moment of silence to ponder a question. I hope to continue to work on using silence as I go. Lastly, I learned that there are many different types of interventions, as the client I realized that sometimes clients need something they would not have thought of. For example, Jaren had me write out a road map of my next year, something I had never thought about doing. This allowed me to see where I was in my plans and what was coming as well as started me thinking how I am going to get these plans done. It was extremely helpful and I believe this is something I could do with clients be them children who are trying to wrap their heads around when they are at a parent’s house (if they are in a divorced family) to trying to figure out what comes next in