The 5 P's: Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance

One thing I picked up while serving in the U.S. Army was the 5 P’s: Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance. That is, whenever possible nothing should be left to chance. Coincidences happen as do chance encounters at the mall, the beauty salon, or maybe even church. According to Ivey, Ivey, and Zalaquett (2014) “Counseling & psychotherapy…have a solid research & scientific base” (p. 7) but counselors are much more than white lab coats. They believe that counseling is as much an art as it is a science with the counselors being the artists. If ever a therapist finds themselves in the situation you described their artistic nature as well as the 5 P’s will surely play a factor in its outcome.
Numerous authors posit that running into a client