What Are The Three Stages Of Indirect Listening

The first stage is that the client needs to be motivated to change their habits, this may include thoughts and associated emotions but also behaviour, actions, responses and lifestyle choices and lifestyle patterns. The counsellor’s role is to facilitate this change by helping re-build the client’s self-esteem, determination and courage toward positive change. The counsellor through indirect listening helps clarify and surmise for the client the disparity or discrepancies that confront the client and where they what to get to. Toward creating action plans for the client to commit to once the right level of motivation and self-worth acknowledgement (self-esteem) has been sufficiently restored. The counsellor may need to ‘push’ the client depending