Counselling Skills Warnborough College

Overview

Learn about the counsellor’s role and the counselling process, and gain basic practical counselling skills. This Counselling Skills course from Warnborough College is recommended for parents, teachers and others who want to communicate in a more supportive, empathetic manner. 

Aims

• Explain the processes involved in the training of counsellors in micro skills.

• Demonstrate

• the skills involved in commencing the counselling process and

• evaluation of non-verbal responses and minimal responses.

• Demonstrate reflection of content, feeling, both content and feeling, and its appropriateness to the counselling process.

• Develop different questioning techniques and to understand risks involved with some types of questioning.

• Show how to use various micro-skills including summarising, confrontation, and reframing.

• Demonstrate self-destructive beliefs and show methods of challenging them, including normalising.

• Explain

• how counselling a client can improve their psychological well-being

• through making choices, overcoming psychological blocks and

• facilitating actions.

• Demonstrate effective ways of terminating a counselling session and to explain ways of addressing dependency.