Empathy
Empathy the second quality d to create a welcoming atmosphere. Empathy needed ability tune into another person, to have a felt sense of their experience with out losing one's own experience of reality. It is coming as close to another human being as it is possible to do without merging or joining with them and becoming part of them. Some writers suggest we are born with an innate capacity for empathic attunement Many of us have learned to hold back our empathic connection, only what we are supposed to "see' and screening out the rest. Smell, taste, touch, The TA counsellor hearing and "gut' feelings tend to be "tamed' in the same way. needs to learn to their senses. They will then have a rich valuable information that when used will deepen empathic contact. Careful observation of the client, together with a delicate attunement to what they are trying to convey through verbal and non-verbal signalling, are the basis for the development of empathy