All About The Counselling Winnipeg Profession

By Josephine Pennington


Counselling is actually not an easy job as everyone thinks because it is where one would have to deal with different kinds of people who have different mindsets. Dealing and helping these people can actually get tiring because one would have to veer people into fulfilling their potential. However, there are those who believe that counselling winnipeg and helping people is their calling so they still go for it anyway.

Now one of the essential things that one would have to do if he would go into this profession is know how to listen to anyone who comes in. This is actually where a technique known as active listening would come in because this is a technique that would build rapport with clients. Now for those who do not know, active listening is using body language to be able to build rapport with a client while listening.

Now while actively listening to the client, a counsellor has to know a technique known as reflection. Now reflection is actually a technique that would allow the counsellor to establish a better and more open relationship with his client. This technique is simply done by mirroring what the client is saying but in a whole new different way.

Now it is one thing to gain some rapport with clients and to listen to them but it is also another story to ask questions. Questions are extremely important because they would help counsellors get a better view of what they are up against. So as long as the counsellor will know how to ask the right questions, he will definitely be able to help.

Now if one would want to do this, then he would have to take note of the two questioning techniques which would be asking open ended questions and close ended ones. Now the close ended ones are usually answered easily with a yes or no. Now this is a quick way to be able to know what is in the mind of a client.

The second type of question would be the open ended one which would include an explanation. Now these are the types of questions that cannot be answered by a simple yes or no but with an explanation. Now one does this if he wants to delve deeper into the mind of his client.

Of course if one is already done with asking questions, then he would have to give some advice. Now one should never ever pressure another person into taking a piece of advice because it will make things worse. Counsellors should just know how to guide their clients to the suitable decision.

So as one can see, there are actually a lot of techniques that one can add into his arsenal. Now in this kind of profession, these are the fundamental techniques that have to be used when dealing with clients. Of course it is better to know about these techniques before going into the field so that one can already be prepared with his arsenal.




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