Reflection on Counselling Practice: COM561, Excelsia College, 2019

This report provides a reflection on the student's counselling practice experience. The student discusses the challenges of being a counsellor, including the emotional intensity and pressure to achieve effective outcomes. The report highlights the importance of the client-counsellor relationship, emphasizing person-centered approaches to build trust and facilitate open communication. The student reflects on the application of micro-skills, active listening, and the development of care plans. The experience of witnessing client improvement is described as rewarding and the report concludes by acknowledging the role of various strategies and processes in providing a better service to the client. The report references relevant academic sources to support the points discussed.

Running head: COUNSELLING PRACTICE
COUNSELLING PRACTICE
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Reflection:
As my experience I understood that being a counsellor is one of the toughest part in a
psychology centre because you experience a lot of situations of improbability and anxiety with the
client. The counsellor becomes as helpless as the client, because of this constant pressure of a better
performance and to achieve an effective outcome. The practice does not get easier as I observed that
the more I learn, the more skills I eagerly want to apply to the counselling session. But it is also very
overwhelming some times when you observe an effective outcome of the sessions provided to the
client and you see improvement in the client. I say this moment is indescribable because for everyone
it’s presented differently. I’ve had various motivation and demotivation experiences as being a
counsellor in my practice. We were taught about various strategies and processes in order to provide a
better service to the client. One of them is the Person Centred relationship between the client and the
counsellor (McMahon & Rodillas, 2018). The aims of the process id to build a better therapeutic
relationship with the client in order to understand and make the client comfortable enough so that he
shares his difficulties and issue to the counsellor. The practise has helped me in understanding the
client and to implement a better strategy to manage and overcome the issues the client in facing. Also
active response was one of the major factors that I observed in my experience, as a counsellor you
need to be active enough to take up the information and instantly react to it that might help the client.
As a counsellor it becomes your responsibility to provide a better care plan and session which must
show a life changing result for the client (Bor, & Eriksen, 2019).

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References:
Bor, R., & Eriksen, C. (2019). 58 Counselling. Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and
Medicine, 263.
McMahon, A., & Rodillas, R. R. (2018). Personal development groups during psychotherapy training:
Irish students’ expectations and experiences of vulnerability, safety and growth. Counselling
Psychology Quarterly, 1-24.