The Counseling Process
– The Client-Counseling Relationship: Collaborative, egalitarian, respectful and cooperative.
– Understanding the Client: How is the client behaving? What does the client gain from this behavior? Why does the client do this in this manner?
– Assessment and Analysis: Family Atmosphere and Constellation, Birth Order, Early Recollections, Dreams, and Priorities.
– Insight and Interpretation: Helps the client see his or her priority and ask whether or not the price for achieving it is worth paying.
– Reorientation: Counselor offers alternative ideas or beliefs for the client’s consideration.
– Prescribing New Behavioral Rituals: The client is assigned “homework” that engages him or her in repetitive acts to reinforce the client’s new belief system, behaviors and rules of interaction.