The Importance Of Personality In Counseling

I believe personality affects the counseling relationship between a nutritionist and client, by either hindering it or helping it. For instance, because an individual’s personality or character involves a tremendous amount of emotions, finding ways to explore a positive outcome could be challenging when the two personalities clash. Therefore, being mindful of the clients needs during a counseling session should always be a priority. In addition, being able and mature enough to set all outside feelings aside for a moment in helping another is crucial. Moreover, practicing techniques; such as, being a good listener, sensitive towards your clients' concerns and open minded are key to having a great outcome when involving personality during

However, I’m a good balance between “action & harmony”. The strengths and weakness in both personality styles seem to fit whom I am today. I believe these two specific personality styles can either be a positive or a negative during nutritional counseling but the key in my opinion to achieve a good outcome is to always perceive to achieve. Attitude is life. How one decides to express it and use it to their own advantage and those around them in a positive manner can be a pleasant experience. On the contrary, I found some rather interesting information from a source about this topic, as it states “people who make good counselors genuinely like other people. They like being around people and talking with all different kinds of people. Being a "people person" isn't enough, however. Counselors enter the profession because they want to help people solve their problems. This takes specific personality traits, and more importantly, a combination of these traits to be most effective in their jobs” (What Kinds of Personalities are Suitable to Be a

Many times this means making only slight alterations in advice from patient to patient, but the variances can make huge differences. Good counselors who want to go beyond using "cookie cutter" solutions and giving pat answers seek to offer better suggestions -- those that stem from their creative and flexible ideas” (What Kinds of Personalities are Suitable to Be a Counselor?). Lastly, “a good counselor should fully understand emotion and reason, and know when to use either or both. It's essential to have empathy, for example, but empathizing too much with a patient may cloud the ability to help him find the way out of his dilemma. Education gives a counselor the tools to diagnose a problem, but the counselor needs to listen to his intuition, too, rather than put a patient into a convenient diagnostic box. Devising creative solutions for each person requires the ability to apply both emotion and reason as it makes the most sense in each case” (What Kinds of Personalities are Suitable to Be a Counselor?). I found this information, ironic because overall, the area I believe adjustments would be highly needed in order to become a successful nutrition counselor is controlling my own emotions. For instance, knowing when to draw the line with getting too involved emotionally with a client’s