Counselling Skills
Communication skills are obviously of utmost importance to counsellors, we have lots of further pages covering these skills including: active listening, clarification, reflection and effective questioning skills.
The counsellor will attempt to build a certain amount of rapport with their client, but not to an extent that would allow them to become emotionally involved.
Counsellors need to be empathetic, seeing things from the client’s point of view, rather than sympathetic (feeling sorry for their clients). Empathy can help the counsellor to ask appropriate questions and lead the client to positive conclusions.
See our page: What is Empathy? for more.
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