Counseling Report

Nazari was at home anticipating our meeting. He called to confirm the appointment the day before.

Nazari started the session with talking about how inspired he was with our previous conversation when the writer directed the session towards a phenomenon of patience, the importance of improving skills of patience, and consequently cognitive restructuring of priorities.

The client was glad to report his improvement. He reportedly focused his effort first on getting a driving licence. At the moment he takes the opportunity to travel to Melbourne where he uses to drive a car under the supervision of his friend.

The next stage would be buying a car. He has already talked to his friend who is willing to lend him some money for that purpose. When he gets the car it would be a way easier to get a job, as the client elaborated.

Moreover, making the list of priorities made the client less nervous and more patient comparing to our previous session.

While talking about his family he reported shortly that the security situation in Pakistan is getting worse and therefore, he worries a lot for them. His mind was taken up with reminiscence of his father and brother who had been killed back in 1999. When the writer asked him if he would like to talk more about that, he remarked shortly: “We all have a kind of traumatic experience, loss or grief. Our lives consist of those and we are used to that”.

He did not want to disclose anything more in relate to it.

Continuing the conversation, the client talked about his exploring spirit. He has already travelled a lot throughout Australia, visiting Sidney, Canberra, and Wagga Wagga. He liked Canberra the most because it remained him of his country where the scenery is loaded with hills an...

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...ported, he can not get a bank loan to buy a car because he does not have a job. So he found himself in an “unsolvable” and unsustainable situation which bothers him a lot.

He repeted several times he would prefer having a job rather than receiving the payment from Centrelink. He insisted on his traits as a “proud person” who would rather have any kind of job than living from social payments.

Speaking of any other job, he told the writer that he had not received yet any other offer from the employment services within Diversitat.

The situation described by the client seems to him as a paradox. The writer has tried to explain the “Circulus vitiousus position “ the client seemed to be in. Cognitive approach applied. The Patience as a virtue had been discussed.

Nazari clearly expressed he would like to continue counselling.