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Melenie Reflection
Melenie, you have touched on one of the comments which I found surprising in this weeks reading. A “pastoral counselors should be cautious about immediately assuming that all problems a queer person is experiencing in life are related to being queer.” (Hays, 2015, p.342) Prior to this week’s reading I believed this should be very obvious. I would not want to go to counselor and have them say the problem’s I am experiencing in life are because I am black and being discriminated against. If I heard that I would possibly feel hopeless, because just like the queer person who cannot change their queer, I cannot change my
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