My Personal Worldviews

As a counselor in training, I have come to the conclusion that my personal worldviews are quite difficult to mentally process. “Identifying your life philosophy is likely the greatest challenge in finding your theoretical orientation” (Halbur & Halbur, 2015, p. 16). From my perspective, I have asked myself several challenging questions to assist myself in understanding my personal beliefs, values, and morals. These questions include, “what do I believe about myself?”, and “what do I believe about people?” I realized that in order for me to understand people and how I felt about them, I had to understand my true self. In considering the question, “what do I believe about myself?” I have come to the conclusion that I am a person who focuses
Like REBT, my personal theory assumes humans are born with the capacity to think rationally or irrationally. Additionally, people have the natural tendency to be happy, however, people also have the habit of becoming self-destructive. Therefore, their inherent thoughts tend to shift in a path that allows adverse thoughts to develop. Humans have the tendency to remember the worst part of the day than remembering the best. For example, here is my experience with a driver Monday. I was in a hurry Monday afternoon to get to campus because I had a counseling session at 2 to attend. On the way to Cleveland, I get behind a person who was going about the speed limit. I noticed I had 20 minutes to get to Cleveland; however, I was only about 15 minutes away. I was angry for no reason. I was having irrational thoughts that were causing me to have road rage and be very angry. For example, I believed, “I might be late for my session, and my counselor will hate me.” Secondly, I believed, “that I had to be somewhere more important than the driver in front of me.” I arrived on campus on time; however, these thoughts caused me to be anxious and mad. After much consideration, I realized that I was at fault, not the driver in front of me. Like myself, I believe people create their own
However, similar to REBT beliefs, being too warm to a client can lead to dependency in the counseling. Since my theory is involving a cognitive process, an affectionate relationship between the client and the counselor is not necessarily required. However, I am partial to an egalitarian relationship during the therapeutic process. Just like rational emotive behavioral therapist, I will be open and direct. I want my client’s to see me has someone who is imperfect, rather than someone who is flawless. I do not want to self-disclose too much in the therapeutic relationship, but I do want them to understand I have been in their position before and that change can happen. I aspire for my client’s to see me as an equal instead of an authority