Pre-Practicum: Case Study

It is stressed at every stage of the counseling education the importance of the therapeutic alliance. The therapeutic alliance can influence how much the client is willing to disclose and the overall goals of counseling. It is important as a counselor-in-training to understand one’s own strengths and weaknesses. The current literature is a review of three counseling sessions with Lacey, the client, and areas of improvement. The sections covered are a brief overview of my client, summary of sessions, strengths in session, weaknesses in session, theoretical process, future interventions, and counselor characteristics. Some of the areas of growth are pacing in session, confidence in a counseling framework, and having a few techniques that are

A counselor must make sure that they are following the moral obligations. The moral obligations to clients may seem easy to maintain until the session starts and the counselor is struggling to not provide advice and allow the client to make their own goals. In this current paper, I will be discussing my client and my difficulties in session. I will provide a brief overview of my client, summary of sessions, strengths in session, weaknesses in session, theoretical process, future interventions, and counselor characteristics.
Summary of Client The client that I counseled, Lacey, is a 24 year old Caucasian female. She comes from a religious family from Georgia and moved to Texas about two years ago after her father got relocated for work. Growing up she was raised Christian, but as an adult she identifies as being an Atheist. She was raised with both parents in her life and she has an older sister. Lacey is currently employed full-time and goes to school full-time. She reports that she works at a mental health facility in Ft.Worth. She has reported that her main issues have to do with her mother controlling her actions and wanting to choose to her future. Lacey struggles with boundary setting with her mother and disclosing her sexuality and religious preference to her mother, whom she feels would be judgmental. She currently has her own apartment, but her parents live

She wanted to discuss the issues that she is having with her mother. According to Lacey, her mother had been strongly suggesting that when it is time for Lacey’s father to return to Georgia, Lacey should come along as well. Lacey stated that she has not made any formal plans, but that she does not like that her mother is trying to decide for her. During this session, Lacey began discussing that she feels conflicted because she wants to keep the peace between them, but she wants her autonomy. She discloses that part of the reason she does not want to go home is because her family does not know about her being an Atheist now nor of her sexuality. She dreads having to disclose this information to her mother because of the judgment that she feels that she will receive. At the end of the session, I provide Lacey with a task of making steps to eventual disclosure with her parents. In the beginning of the