counseling practicum reflective
REFLECTTIVE PAPER 1
After having completed the supervision in counseling practicum, the lessons have taught me of how to be an effective, culturally sensitive and ethnical counselor. Each session helped me work through the skills needed as counselor as well as my personal value issues to further develop my counseling skills.
I am to put the theory to practice by completing two 50 minutes of recorded counseling sessions with a professional counselor. After each session of the “counseling”, I will review and reflect the an hour session of the counseling with my group members.
There are no doubts that there were feelings of nervousness and anxiousness during the session as I was new to the counseling session. I have no idea how to start and how the session is going or to end. In my head, I kept thinking if I were the client, how am I feeling.
What questions do I need to ask to find out his inner experience? What would be the appropriate empathic response to the client to make the session a therapeutic and helpful one?
All these questions seem trivial and insignificant seems so important to be me and the client now which can be helpful to the client to achieve a therapeutic session. In the past, I often talked so openly about my personal issues in my life without having to think nor have any feelings of apprehension of how others are feelings. There is clarity now and I begin to be self-aware, begin to think, the thought of exposing my personal issues so open, and being unaware of how others may react and feels seem so careless.
In the first practicum session, I have the chance to role play the client. I tried to fill my emotions as if I am the client who needs to be counseled. The moment I step into the building, I felt a moment of coldness and anxiousness, probably I don’t know what to expect. After I have seated, with the counselor facing me, a total stranger looking at me wanting to talk to me to find out my inner feelings. I was not prepared to share my
After having completed the supervision in counseling practicum, the lessons have taught me of how to be an effective, culturally sensitive and ethnical counselor. Each session helped me work through the skills needed as counselor as well as my personal value issues to further develop my counseling skills.
I am to put the theory to practice by completing two 50 minutes of recorded counseling sessions with a professional counselor. After each session of the “counseling”, I will review and reflect the an hour session of the counseling with my group members.
There are no doubts that there were feelings of nervousness and anxiousness during the session as I was new to the counseling session. I have no idea how to start and how the session is going or to end. In my head, I kept thinking if I were the client, how am I feeling.
What questions do I need to ask to find out his inner experience? What would be the appropriate empathic response to the client to make the session a therapeutic and helpful one?
All these questions seem trivial and insignificant seems so important to be me and the client now which can be helpful to the client to achieve a therapeutic session. In the past, I often talked so openly about my personal issues in my life without having to think nor have any feelings of apprehension of how others are feelings. There is clarity now and I begin to be self-aware, begin to think, the thought of exposing my personal issues so open, and being unaware of how others may react and feels seem so careless.
In the first practicum session, I have the chance to role play the client. I tried to fill my emotions as if I am the client who needs to be counseled. The moment I step into the building, I felt a moment of coldness and anxiousness, probably I don’t know what to expect. After I have seated, with the counselor facing me, a total stranger looking at me wanting to talk to me to find out my inner feelings. I was not prepared to share my