Reflection On Counselling

My reflecting skills at many points of the interview were not really good, in one instance I just made a general statement on Line 41 which was a judgement by me. I could have used repetition here and said “you are a lot less stress knowing the money will come in” instead of a general statement which ended up being a response to the client which is not suppose to be done. I did not use a lot of repetition during my interview with my client. This can be seen as a plus because using lots of repetition can be seen as a negative, it can appear to the client as if the counsellor is not paying attention and not understanding the messages that the client is communicating. I used paraphrasing to covey to my client that I am undersetting her and to encourage my client to elaborate. My paraphrasing at times were pretty confusing because when I tried to reiterate the clients story I had small bits and piece. I used paraphrasing on lines (19, 35, 72, 132, 169, 200). When paraphrasing I tried to gather the facts and thoughts of my client’s story but that did not turn out so well because I overthinking every

I used a few minimal encouragers throughout the whole interview, some of the minimal encouragers were just sounds while my client was speaking (L 7, 65, 100, 111, 144, 153, 164, 174, 191, 196, 206, 213, 233). I could have used more minimal encouragers at times to try to focus back on the main problem which was school anxiety, this would have been done to get my client to explore a deeper meaning of her problem. In a few instances I should have used a different minimal encourager that would have been more appropriate (L 144, 153). Instead of saying “that’s good” I should have used “mm-hmm” because it might have been perceived as a judgment instead instead of statement that conveys attention and understanding to the