Grief counseling

What will be the goals of counseling and what intervention strategies are used to accomplish those goals? Accordance to ACA A.1.c. Counseling Plans: therapist and their participant collaborate together toward developing treatment plan designed to for the client to achieve their treatment objectives. This will assist the counselor with establishing the client foundation toward identifying their growth throughout their treatment. The therapist will be able to gain the essential insight require to…

struggling with situational depression and anxiety. . My professional areas of interests will include working with those who struggle with anxiety and depressive issues especially in regards to relationships and major life transitions, death and dying, grief, self-worth, and career guidance. I believe thoughts impact feelings and behaviors. Together we will identify your values and automatic thoughts and address how they may be interfering in your daily life. Addressing thoughts can allow for…

self-awareness is crucial in connecting with others. Understanding one’s role in a relationship is necessary to be effective and know if one is fulfilling needs and expectations. For this reason, it is important to understand the identity of the counseling profession as well as gain insight into one’s individual identity as a professional counselor. Nuekrug (2014) supplied an insightful overview of the requirement, role, and responsibility of a professional counselor. However, each individual…

1. Challenges: a. adults i. Scheduling conflicts due to work, taking care of family, and etc. ii. Feelings of shame for needing the counseling could hinder his or her progress. iii. Building rapport with an adult client could be difficult if the counselor is younger than the client which could make the counselor seem like she does not know what she is doing. iv. Possible generation differences between the clients and/or counselor, i.e. slang words, comfortability with lifestyle choices, and etc…

The reading from the textbook relates to what discuss in many ways. The first way the textbook relates to what we learned in class is in section that where it mentions why children do better in group counseling rather then individual counseling. This topic relates to what we did in class because when we were playing our group games we need to break the group into smaller size because some games only allowed four members or less. The second way the textbook relates to what we learned in class is…

the mental health counseling program at Touro back in 2013 was with a supporter of the mental illness came the awareness of the importance of counseling as a practice of treatment. During my journey, I discovered that counseling may be challenging as it needs to be individual detailed. What works for one individual may or may not work for another. Whereas “finding counseling” has felt like a very lengthy progression already, I know that the development of “understanding counseling” has just…

It would be difficult to do marriage counseling. How does a therapist not feel like it is their fault if the marriage fails? It takes skill to learn how to just be with people in their pain. I feel like it is my responsibility to ease their pain and help them figure out an alternative plan of action. I would want to continue to try to keep them together and work towards saving the marriage. Having gone through marriage counseling myself and feeling the pain of it not being effective, I…

by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs or be substantively equivalent. Most programs transitioned to a 60-credit program as recently as 2013. Requiring prospective counselors to meet a core of content objectives that are common to all counseling specialties. Such as human growth and development, career development, individual and group counseling, mental health diagnoses and more. Being a part of a mental health counseling program is competitive,…

Something that stuck with me throughout this process is that no matter why someone comes in for counseling, it is that you cannot judge them. The office serves as a positive outlet for clients and they need to know that they can trust the counselor and they will not be judged. If there is judgement from the counselor (or any other professional in mental health), the client will take note of that and will not want to proceed with any form of treatment or intervention, and they could even become…

Application: Interview Subject For the COUN 6100 Final Project: The Role and Life of a Clinical Mental Health Counselor, I selected Mr. Lemuel Williams, NCC, CT, LPC as the interview subject. Mr. Williams is the practice director at Avenues to Wellness in Virginia Beach, Virginia and also provides outpatient therapy within the practice. Mr. Williams maintains the qualification of a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Virginia as well as maintains the credentials of a National…