Reflective Essay: My Personal Philosophy Of Counseling

My personal philosophy of counseling begins and ends with patience’s and acceptances. One goal that I have is to enter into a client’s experience beside them being there with them every step of the way to help the client explore their own thoughts and feelings. I entered into the field of counseling because I have a compassion and desire to help people reach and understand their full potential. As a counselor in training, I desire to help a client identify their own problems and concerns while also demonstrating a genuine compassion for the endeavors that they may face. I believe that counseling is a crosswalk for empowerment, self-exploration, healing and growth. Ultimately, I would strive to encourage the client to delineate their own solutions. Overall, my philosophy as a counselor in training is to respect and treat each client the way that they should be treated, providing them with respect, courtesy and acceptance no matter their personal circumstance. The most important part of the counseling process is when the counselor structures the initial interview, helps the client to define the problem(s) and develops an initial hypothesis. I believe this first step
I believe that change is always possible of reaching if that individual first changes their own mindset into positive thoughts. One of the best saying that I love to use is by Maya Angelou “If you don’t like something change it. If you cannot change it, change your attitude.” Every person is capable to create change in their own life, it starts by changing their own mindset, creating a plan and sticking to that plan until that change is accomplished or