Another thought....does the counsellor help the clients internal counsellor to do the counselling? as Counsellor I only spend 50 minutes with the client, they spend 6 days, 23hours and 10 minutes on their own.
So what do I do in that 50 minutes? help them to focus? get them to talk about their feeling out loud. Unpack their head. so they can repack or through away what they don't want to repack.
I'm a great believer that the client does most of their processing away from the counselling room.
Not really got my head in counselling mode at the moment as it is half term where I work, so I have only seen two clients over the past 2 weeks! They will be back in force next week.
I totally agree. I think a lot of the work happens in the time between sessions.
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