Telephone counselling

Wow its been a while that I have written a blog. So much has happened over the past few months. I had an opportunity to work on a EAP telephone helpline... I have counselled clients on the b4 but it was only a very small part of my work.

Its been a great experience and I am still learning so much every day! it fantastic. Its been a up hill struggle and a steep learning curve.

I have found that my confidence has now grown to a point of feeling comfortable when the phone rings. Its always tough dealing with a suicidal caller and I have had a few now... its just different to the 9 years of F2F I have done.

Business is growing just by word of mouth and the counselling directory. A great database of counsellors.

In my next blog I am going to talk about Counselling supervision.

Business is growing

I'm glad to say that being fully self employed is working well for me. Had a few new clients start which is always a great thing. Even in this economic down turn.

I wonder what the future hold for me? Everything ticking along nicely now.... I have started to ask myself a big question.... Will I be a counsellor for the rest of my life? At this point of writing I would say no. I think there are other areas of life that I can take my skills and experience. That may well be into a business area and work for someone again.

I also have plans to stop working altogether by the time I am 50. I hope to have build my business up to a point where I just manage it and someone else does the work. Don't want to be listening to people's problems for ever. I want to be able to get the counselling work and then contract it out. Cant see why that wouldn't work. That's the plan anyway.