Examples Of Self Harming In Counselling

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Amy, being in her teen years, is more likely to be able to handle loss, such as her parents’ divorce compared to the younger age groups. For her age, she should and has a better understanding of death and loss. However, as a counsellor myself, I will show my support and care to Amy about her struggles with her parents’ divorce. I will also help her because she is self-harming herself by cutting. In this paper, I will discuss what I will say to her in the counselling session. First and foremost, I plan to establish and build a respectable, friendly and open client-counsellor relationship. This way, she would feel comfortable to share and express herself about her problems with cutting and her parents’ divorce. When it seems that she is …show more content…

As mentioned earlier, I first want to make her feel comfortable to talk openly to me and share her thoughts and feelings with me. This is also considered as the ideal method for Amy to withdraw from harming herself. I would share some of the guidelines that Amy can follow to break free from the cycle of self-harming herself: 1. Suggest Amy to concentrate on any “feelings” that lead her to cut herself, 2) Encourage her to share her thoughts and feelings “in a way” that makes her feel at ease to do so, 3) Let Amy know that talking about harming oneself is not easy and she “may feel even worse after sharing, but it can get better in time when she shares with someone about it. Another method that I could use as mentioned in the module is to provide ways for Amy to avoid self-harm triggers. In the module, there are four different parts of managing and preventing triggers. Each part is a different reason for self-harm, such as the following: 1) “turn to self-harm to express how you feel....”, 2) “to calm and soothe yourself”, 3) “can’t access feelings”, and 4) “as a means of releasing tension or anger.” In Amy’s case, Amy has been cutting herself because it seems that she struggles to “access feelings” and/or it is a way to “calm and soothe” herself. In the letter, she wrote that when she cuts herself, she feels a “sense of …show more content…

She wrote that “I have to do something to stop myself from going mad. I didn’t really mean to start cutting myself.” As a counsellor, I want to help Amy to deal with the divorce and how to adjust to a new life after divorce. I have to keep in mind about the factors that play in a role in how Amy adjusts to a new life, such as: “the cumulative stress… following a divorce”, Amy’s “temperament and personality”, Amy’s “age”, and her

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