Psychological counselling Analysis 2022

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COUNSELLING: ANALYSIS
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Psychological counselling, in clinical terms, can be defined as a speciality in
psychological practice that creates and maintains a focus on facilitating personal and
interpersonal functioning across the lifespan (Woolfe, 2016). In generic terms, counselling or
psychotherapy can be defined as a personal and individual process where a trained
psychologist seeks to offer emotional, psychological and cognitive assistance to an individual
or a community to change or modify their attitude and/ or behavior so that they can cope with
certain mental illness or psychosomatic illness (Kennedy & Arthur, 2014). However, the
paradigm of counselling has a broader base in today’s world where people are hiring
counsellors for social, vocational, health related, developmental and organizational concerns
(Galbraith, 2017). The respective article is an analytical essay of psychological counselling of
a patient called Chelsea due to her increased anger and the ambiguity she faces in
understanding the reason behind her short temper. The analytical essay delves into the
societal problems Chelsea faces due to the reason why she developed certain psychological
issues and the way by which that can be coped. The essay is analytical and also intuitive
because it delves deep into the personality traits of Chelsea and tries to understand what sort
of human being she is and what kind of counselling advice would be better for her to cope
with her life and mental illness.
The world of psychology and its scope is infinite and multidimensional in nature.
Psychological counselling, in clinical terms, can be defined as a speciality in psychological
practice that creates and maintains a focus on facilitating personal and interpersonal
functioning across the lifespan. In generic terms, counselling or psychotherapy can be defined
as a personal and individual process where a trained psychologist seeks to offer emotional,
psychological and cognitive assistance to an individual or a community to change or modify
their attitude and/ or behavior so that they can cope with certain mental illness or
psychosomatic illness (Goodyear et al., 2016). However, the paradigm of counselling has a

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broader base in today’s world where people are hiring counsellors for social, vocational,
health related, developmental and organizational concerns. In today’s world of growing
tension and competition that are sometimes fueled by certain social evils, human beings tend
to become skeptical about life and psychological illness such as depression, anxiety disorder
and bipolar disorder creep in the life of the individuals that reduces the quality of their life.
Such issues need to be dealt immediately with the help of a mental health professional who
needs to be compassionate, an unprejudiced observer and a stoic listener who will delve into
the problems of the people and find out solutions against it. Psychological counselling has
become a part of the normal life discourse of modern men and women. It has become an
indispensable tool for the present generation to feel balanced and at ease with all the
complexities they go through in their life regarding education, ambition and personal life.
Case formulation
Chelsea is a graphic designer, which means she has a strong creative bent of mind and
therefore, she has opted that as her career. However, as she is finding less scope in this area,
she is taking up administrative jobs which is not her genre. It is making her completely
drained out and she is also not finding interest in her job, even though she finds some
freelancing graphic designing work for her, that too, seldom. It means that Chelsea is not
satisfied with her career. Apart from that, Chelsea is also not happy with her personal life.
She has been facing a lot of unpleasant and undesirable acts and behavior from the part of her
family members. As she has never seen her real father, her mother, who is married to another
man, who has two children, a son and a daughter, seemed to be a bitter pill for her. The
reason was that the step brother of Chelsea has been sexually harassing her lately that has
turned traumatic for her. When she talked about her sexual harassment case to Wendy (her
mother), she seemed to be supportive towards her yet she was in a condition that she “did not
know what to do”, which means that Chelsea has not recieved proper help and support from

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her family in this case where a family member in her life has been causing her traumatic
events. In the given case, Cheslea has talked about the “small mindedness” of her small town
and why she desperately wanted to leave her house and go somewhere else. It proves that
apart from Chelsea being a free spirited and a fiercely independent minded girl, she has also
started avoiding her family because it seems as if she has started feeling repulsive towards
her family. Chelsea has a past life which is filled with uncanny and disturbing incidents that
have made her completely moody, has also made her skeptic about her existence and the
reasons for her changes in mood which she is still finding out.
Chelsea is a strong woman who seems to try to recover from the situation she has faced.
Even though there are streaks of self blame in her, it seems as if she is quite questionable
about her anger and mood swings that she gets often times. Her mood swings and changes are
creating problems between her and her partner. They seem to be drifting away from one
another.
1. Anger management: In order to understand the reason behind the anger, she should
start self reflecting herself. Anger management is a psycho- therapeutic program and
its goal is to control and regulate anger so that it does not result in problems in day to
day life, such as social and peer interaction, concentration on work, studies and health
(Jones, 2016). Various cognitive behavioral therapies are utilized by psychologists to
carry forward the anger management programs in order to control the impulses and
induce self control among the individuals (Henwood, Chou & Browne, 2015).
Chelsea should focus on anger management programs that are available in the many
psychological clinics and hospitals. The anger management programs might as well
prove to be beneficial for Chelsea in regaining her vigour and valour.
2. Getting enough sleep, exercising and having a good diet are also some basic and
customary tools that can assist in preventing anger and controlling it to a certain

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extent. It can also be counted as therapy under positive psychology with lifestyle
changes (Robertson, 2015).
3. Relaxation coping skills through CBT: CBT, which stands for Cognitive Behavioral
Therapy has certain intrinsic practices such as relaxation techniques which help a
person to cope up with the anger issues he/she might be going through (Bor & Watts,
2016).
4. A way of acting, feeling and thinking: The cognitive therapies that include smoking
less, being more outgoing, helping a person to be less scared, less depressed and less
anxious, and also assisting individuals in learning to problem solving and getting rid
of self defeating thoughts are some of the techniques that are used on order to keep
someone away from angers, sudden fits and other mood related issues (Ivtzan &
Lomas, 2016). Chelsea can take up such therapeutic sessions in order to become
better in coping with her anger issues (Moodley & Palmer, 2014).
5. Counselling and psychotherapy: Regular counselling and psychotherapy is needed for
Chelsea in at every level because she will be supposedly having anger fits in between
her lifestyle. She might be having some episodes of anger and therefore, it will be
needed for her to survive the episodes. Regular counselling would help her heal her
wounds in a holistic way. With a greater degree of self awareness and understanding
of herself and others. It would improve her self- esteem, and she would develop a
reflection of her and her personal relationship. By the end of the process, it can be
expected that she will be very satisfied with her life (Puff & Seghers, 2014).
The respective paper is a counselling advice analysis paper that focuses on
counselling of Chelsea. It has to be admitted that psychological counselling, in clinical terms,
can be defined as a speciality in psychological practice that creates and maintains a focus on
facilitating personal and interpersonal functioning across the lifespan. In generic terms,

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counselling or psychotherapy can be defined as a personal and individual process where a
trained psychologist seeks to offer emotional, psychological and cognitive assistance to an
individual or a community to change or modify their attitude and/ or behavior so that they can
cope with certain mental illness or psychosomatic illness. The analytical essay has delved
into the societal problems Chelsea faces due to the reason why she developed certain
psychological issues and the way by which that can be coped. The essay concludes to be
analytical and also intuitive because it delves deep into the personality traits of Chelsea and
tries to understand what sort of human being she is and what kind of counselling advice
would be better for her to cope with her life and mental illness.

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Puff, R., & Seghers, J. (2014). The everything guide to anger management: proven
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Kennedy, B. A., & Arthur, N. (2014). Social justice and counselling psychology:
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