Here's what you bring to your clients:
You have so much to offer your clients. Here are just a
few of them:
- Inner peace - because you help them let go of their anger
- A future - because you liberate them from the torment of
the past.
- Joy - when they are freed to discover a better life
And you'll bring experience, too. Many of our counselling
students have had troubled or challenging times in their past.
Many have spent sessions with a counsellor themselves, and
recognised the benefits it brought.
Perhaps you have suffered in the past? If so, you'll be able
much more to empathize with your clients much better than
someone who has led a sheltered life. And you'll know what
techniques help or hinder people who need therapy. You'll
bring your practical experience of life to aid your work.
Is the course right for you?
You probably already have many of the skills a counsellor
needs. You're probably a good listener. And people approach
you with their problems, because they see you as a sympathetic
person.
Now you can use those skills, and (with our help) overlay
them with professional counselling skills, to become a counsellor
in your own right.
It's such worthwhile work
What work could be more worthwhile? All around us people
are troubled, suffering inner turmoil that they dare not reveal
to their friends or neighbours, for fear of being told to
'pull yourself together', or being dismissed as being obsessive,
boring, or making 'a fuss about nothing'.
If not repaired, each generation hands down its hurt to the
next, infecting their children and those around them with
their toxic behaviour. That's why a counsellor is so important
- they break the vicious circles, and help people create new
and positive life styles. So your work can continue to weave
its magic long after you retire or die. It's your unique gift
to the world.
There are many fascinating specialties.
- You can work with couples, and deal with marital problems,
including being a socio-sexual counsellor
- You can work with your people, whether toddlers or adolescents
- You can work with old people, exploring their concerns and
worries
- You can specialize in problems of addiction, whether alcohol
or drug abuse. Or shyness. Or anger management.
And expertise in counselling is an ideal foundation for
any field of work. Every area of work benefits from understanding
people's needs and motivations.
How do other jobs compare?
What kind of job are you doing at present? If you're like
most people, you're stuck in an office, doing repetitive work
you don't enjoy. You may be working for a dull organization,
or running about for a boss that that doesn't respect you.
Or maybe you're at home, trying to decide how to earn a living?
You probably want an ethical life, one where you put something
back into society.
And you want to put your healing powers to work. You probably
know that people turn to you for advice – and that's
a very special gift. To turn your back on that skill, knowing
that you alone of your friends posses it in such abundance,
that would be a criminal waste.
Arguably, you have a responsibility to use your special powers
to spread harmony, the way that only a counsellor can do.
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