THE REAL SESSION

How you guys do feels when the real counselling session in the class few days ago? Honestly it is the first time that I handled a counselling session before and I am so nervous! When Marcos tells about his own REAL problem I am totally shaking literally and my hands were getting cold because I never had a personal counselling session before so I did not know what to do and how does it works. 

Luckily Dr Fatahyah was at by my side at that time and she helps me a lot when I am out of words to be said. So from the session I learn that we must do a lot of summarizing so that the client feels he is being heard and he can continually tell us what are the things that have been lingering in his mind. I also learned that we need to focus on what the client wants to tell us so that we can have the empathy feelings thus making the client feels comfortable. During the session we must remember to do the SOLER which stands for:

S= Sit squarely

O= Open position

L= Lean towards the client

E= Eye contact

R= Relax

This five elements are the most important part that we as a counsellor must practice so that the client are feeling easy and comfortable with us. Failing to do these five elements will give further unwanted consequences in the future of the sessions.

Another important thing is by using the correct question with the correct theory that you been holding. Every theory has its own specialty and different ways to approach the core problems of the client. We as a counsellor must master a theory to be applied during the session because without a mastered theory, we as a counsellor will not able to help the client to solve his own problems even helping him to solve it.

That is all from me thank you

AMMAR YASSIR BIN YUSSRI

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