Importance of Advanced Empathy and Skills Used in Counselling

Essay Part 1 Importance Of
advance Empathy and Part 2
skills used in Counselling

TABLE OF CONTENT
PART 1............................................................................................................................................3
Advanced empathy.......................................................................................................................3
Distinction between empathy and advanced empathy.................................................................3
Distinction between empathy and sympathy...............................................................................4
PART 2............................................................................................................................................4
Skills used in Counselling:...........................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

PART 1
Advanced empathy
In regard to advanced empathy, it can be said that it is a helping skill that consists of 2
components such as: counsellors’ understanding of unspoken aspects of client experience and
counsellors’ response that is based on their understanding. In simple word, it can be said that it is
an ability that people possess regarding understanding other peoples’ emotions as what they are
feeling. Counsellors or therapists have this ability as they infer feelings that are behind clients’
actions (Etherington and et.al., 2018). Psychologist also have an ability to understand feelings of
their clients even without saying any word by them. It can be felt by facial expression and body
language. It can be divided into 3 types such as: emotional, cognitive and compassionate.
An advanced empathy can be used by counsellors while making use client-centred
approach and in this approach, therapists try to experience their clients’ situations and then
restate it from clients’ point of view and emotional standpoint. It helps counsellors in providing
better treatment to clients and help them out in improving their mental health.
Distinction between empathy and advanced empathy
In regard to empathy in which people try to understand feelings of others, make no value
judgements of other people and client. Empathy must be communicated to the client for it to be
any of value
Empathy: It is an ability to enter clients’ phenomenological world in order to experience
clients’ world by assuming as if it were you then what would have happened and what would
you require. Without losing the “as if: quality, counsellor needs to understand needs and feelings
of clients without being judgemental. For empathy, there is requirement of 2 skills such as:
communication so that understanding of counsellor can be defined to client and perception of
what is taking place emotionally (Lee and et.al., 2018). When counsellor tries to understand
actual feelings of client that is being expressed to counsellor is known as empathy.
Advanced empathy: It takes relationship one step further in which counsellor explore
everything such as: meaning, emotions, issues and themes that are below the surface what is
being shared by clients. In advanced empathy, what the counsellor is communicating to client is
known as felt sense. In other words, it can be said that it is a state where counsellor understand
feelings that are behind clients’ action. Overall, it can be said that in advanced empathy,
counsellor understand unsaid feelings of clients by observing their facial expression and body