Self Evaluation Counselling

Self-Evaluation on Counselling Session (Two)

Strength

I start the session with warmth greeting. After that, I provide a clear structuring to client such as confidentiality, limitation, the length of session, and so on. That actually help client understand more about counselling process and get verbal inform consent.

In order to help client to felt at ease, I attempted to establish a safe atmosphere for client to disclose his issues and also to develop a sense of trust between us by conveying a non-judgmental and non-critical attitude. I use open questions, to invite client to elaborate on information. At the beginning of the session, I manage to use open question to explore more about client issue. Client presenting problem will be financial

Paraphrasing repeating use in the session, which not only shows counsellor is listening and also reflect back to client what he is shared. Regarding the paraphrasing, due to language barrier, some the statements was too long and not precise enough. I am also able to summarize client sharing, manage to draw information together and successfully presented information back to the client. Furthermore, I manage to follow client flow, from discussing about financial concern to adjustment issue in new occupation. I am also managing to facilitate client to consider alternative. For example, for financial concern, client manages to think about his life expectation and the way to achieve it, such as investment and working as part-time tutor. Client also share about the struggle in different nature of work, which is from working in non-government organization to property agent which is more materialistic and focus on sales. Counsellor manage to use reframing that help client to realize that even in different setting, but he still able to notice the similarity on it such as the patience working in NGO also applicable in business setting. Counsellor also