Counselling Analysis in 2022

Running head: COUNSELLING ANALYSIS
COUNSELLING ANALYSIS
Name of the student
Name of the university
Author Note

1COUNSELLING ANALYSIS
Psychological counselling is an important factor in today’s life. Everybody in today’s
life are victims of some kind of the other psychological distress or mental illness (Murdoch,
Gregory & Eggleton, 2015). In today’s cosmopolitan world, the modern men and women are
always under some kind or the other mental pressure and distress (Maree, 2019). In such a
situation, counselling becomes a necessity. In generic terms, many people can define
counselling or psychotherapy 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 (Moodley & Palmer, 2014). In the globalized,
cosmopolitan world, counselling has taken different forms and shapes and it is not only
limited to individual counselling sessions. People are hiring counsellors for social, vocational,
health related, developmental and organizational concerns as well. The particular article is an
analytical essay of psychological counselling of a patient called Chelsea because of her
increased anger while she doesnt understand 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 clinical and generic meaning of psychology is multidimensional and multifaceted
in its own ways. Psychological counselling is an important factor in today’s life. Everybody
in today’s life are victims of some kind of the other psychological distress or mental illness.
In today’s cosmopolitan world, the modern men and women are always under some kind or
the other mental pressure and distress. In such a situation, counselling becomes a necessity.
In generic terms, many people can define counselling or psychotherapy as a personal and

2COUNSELLING ANALYSIS
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. In the
globalized, cosmopolitan world, counselling has taken different forms and shapes and it is not
only limited to individual counselling sessions. People are hiring counsellors for social,
vocational, health related, developmental and organizational concerns as well. 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
(Bor & Watts, 2016). 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.
Chelsea’s case formulation
By profession Chelsea is a graphic designer. She is imaginative and has a creative job
which means she has a strong creative bent of mind and therefore, she has opted that as her
career. However, as she is very unfortunate to find less opportunities in this area, she is
taking up administrative jobs which is not her type of job. Even if she is getting freelance job,
she is not contented with her career. Thus the work is making her unnecessarily worn out and
drained. Cheslea is also unhappy and unfortunate in 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

3COUNSELLING ANALYSIS
children, a son and a daughter, seemed to be a bitter pill for her. She has not seen her real
father and has never actually got the love of what real parents is. Therefore, she has shown
certain regressing signs such as depression and mood disorders. Another reason for her poor
psychological condition 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” or she behaved as if she was helples, which means that
Chelsea has not recieved proper help and support from her family in this case where a family
member in her life has been causing her traumatic events. In the given case, it can be seen
that Cheslea had big dreams. She 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, who is born free, creative and imaginative, wishes to see the whole
world and accomplish her dreams but 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 can be termed as a strong and sensible woman who seems to try to recover from
the situation she has faced. Even though there have been some elements 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. In such situation, Chelsea has enough sense
and sensibility to go and search for a counselling session and guidance.
1. To seek Anger and mood management sessions: Chelsea should immediately go for
attending commendable anger management therapies that some hospitals and spiritual

4COUNSELLING ANALYSIS
centers offer. Anger management can be defined as 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 (Wosket, 2016). Various cognitive behavioral therapies are utilized by
psychologists to guide individuals in such programs so that they can control the
impulses and induce self control among the individuals (Galbraith, 2017). The anger
management programs might as well prove to be beneficial for Chelsea in regaining
her vigour and valour (Jones, 2016).
2. Lifestyle changes: If Cheslea starts 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 extent (Schultz & Gatchel, 2015).
3. CBT that focuses on behavioral and neurotic techniques: CBT, which stands for
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy that focuses on neurotic and behavioral techniques has
certain inherent practices such as relaxation techniques which help a person to cope
up with the anger issues he/she might be going through (Tribe & Morrissey, 2015).
4. Behavioral Therapy: 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 (Cooper & Dryden, 2015).
Chelsea can take up such behavioral therapeutic sessions in order to become better in
coping with her anger issues (Puff & Seghers, 2014).
5. Regular psychological counselling and psychoanalysis: Chelsea is a psychologically
distressed women with acute issues of anger and mood swings, therefore, she needs
regular counselling and psychotherapy in at every level because she will be

5COUNSELLING ANALYSIS
supposedly having anger fits in between her lifestyle again which would need a
therapy to heal and survive the episodes (Pieters et al., 2013). 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.
The analytical essay concludes to have 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 as 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.

6COUNSELLING ANALYSIS
References:
Bor, R., & Watts, M. (Eds.). (2016). The trainee handbook: A guide for counselling &
psychotherapy trainees. Sage.
Cooper, M., & Dryden, W. (Eds.). (2015). The handbook of pluralistic counselling and
psychotherapy. Sage.
Galbraith, V. (Ed.). (2017). Counselling psychology. Routledge.
Jones, O. (2016). Anger management. Owen Jones.
Maree, K. (2019). Shaping the story: A guide to facilitating narrative career counselling.
BRILL.
Moodley, R., & Palmer, S. (Eds.). (2014). Race, culture and psychotherapy: Critical
perspectives in multicultural practice. Routledge.
Murdoch, D. D., Gregory, A., & Eggleton, J. M. (2015). Why psychology? An
investigation of the training in psychological literacy in nursing, medicine, social work,
counselling psychology, and clinical psychology. Canadian Psychology/Psychologie
canadienne, 56(1), 136.
Pieterse, A. L., Lee, M., Ritmeester, A., & Collins, N. M. (2013). Towards a model of
self-awareness development for counselling and psychotherapy training. Counselling
Psychology Quarterly, 26(2), 190-207.
Puff, R., & Seghers, J. (2014). The everything guide to anger management: proven
techniques to understand and control anger. Simon and Schuster.

7COUNSELLING ANALYSIS
Schultz, I. Z., & Gatchel, R. J. (Eds.). (2015). Handbook of return to work: From
research to practice (Vol. 1). Springer.
Tribe, R., & Morrissey, J. (Eds.). (2015). Handbook of professional and ethical practice
for psychologists, counsellors and psychotherapists. Routledge.
Wosket, V. (2016). The therapeutic use of self: Counselling practice, research and
supervision. Routledge.