Effective Counselling Skills: Micro-skills for Successful Counselling

APPLIED COUNSELLING

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The effective counselling session is the one which shall be fulfilling all the process as
well as outcome goals and is tailored and customized as per the needs and expectations of the
client. The counselling does not become successful just by providing the end result and
satisfying the clients by meeting the goals, but instead it is a complete process that can be
executed with the help of the various micro-skills that are possessed by the counsellor. These
skills shall be gaining the confidence and the trust of the client in respect of the right advice or
the suggestion that is provided by the counsellor (Paterson, Laajala and Lehtelä, 2019). This
shall drive a better experience for the client and shall also be interested in facilitating the positive
change in their lives. So it can be assessed that several skills play a significant role in defining
the effectiveness of the counselling and are a necessary aspect for the counsellor to form
reputation in the business.
The counsellor must ensure that there is a defined procedure of counselling and it must
flow in the similar way such that the client stays comfortable and the sharing of information is
apt at both ends for achieving the desired results. The first and the foremost step of the process
involves building the relationship with the client and laying the foundation of trust such that the
client can rely on the counsellor for deriving the solution in the problem. This is the time of
applying the first basic skill of demonstrating empathy towards the client and their feelings and
emotions. The time when the client is explaining the problems and the emotional swing that is
being faced by him/ her, the counsellor must maintain empathy and concern such that it becomes
easy to understand the feelings and the emotions. This shall be developing a connect among the
two which is necessary for the collaboration and the working in the alliance. As a counsellor it is
believed that the feeling of empathy is the prior requirement as this shall make the person
imagine the emotions others are going through and can better understand and devise a solution
for the same. But on the contrary it is also believed that the feeling of empathy must be in a
controlled manner which does not overpower and influence the decisions of the counsellor.
Further the counsellor can proceed with the identification of the nature of the problem
that is being suffered by the client, understanding the perspective and the kind of change that is
being sought by the client. This shall be requiring some basic and micro skills in the counsellor
that can complete the stage effectively (Vasiloglou, Fletcher and Poulia, 2019). These skills are
that the counsellor needs to be an active listener, attentive to the problem that is being
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