Reflection And Application As A Counselor

Sanders Reflection and Application Paper 2 To be employed in the position as a licensed professional counselor entails certain duties, responsibilities, and obligations both to the client and to the self. Likewise, living one’s life with the moniker “Christian” also involves certain callings, commitments, and sometimes burdens whether one wants them or not. There are numerous similarities between being a Christian and being a counselor. Both are meant to be empathetic, nonjudgmental, and genuine. Moreover, counselors and believers know the rehabilitative measures that listening, true, unencumbered listening can have on a client and a non-believer. Both counselor and Christian “…know what distress and weakness and failure are, [yet only the latter]…know the godlessness of men. And so [the former] does not know that man is destroyed only by his sin and can be healed only by forgiveness. Only the Christian knows this” (Bonhoeffer & Doberstein, 2009, p. 119). This one seemingly …show more content…
From the outset, my clients will be informed of my position so they will know that whatever results are obtained are not of my own hand, but of His. In this way, full authority will be placed upon He who is deserving. I am merely an instrument, a tool that will be wielded by the hand of God and guided by the Holy Spirit because “the Church does not need brilliant personalities but faithful servants of Jesus and the brethren” (Bonhoeffer & Doberstein, 2009, p. 109). My entering the helping profession is neither for fame nor fortune. Helping others as He has helped me is my goal and my reward is not found in “treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But…treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal” (Matthew 6: 19-20,