L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 29th May 2020

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This week we are looking at limits of proficiency, and my reflections on them. There are many ethical considerations to take into account when considering your own limits of proficiency. The type of client is one, for example, as a child would require a different approach to an adult seeking therapy. Personally, I would like to gain experience with as…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 22nd May 2020

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Ethics in counselling are very important. I will be using the BACP’s Ethical Framework as contextual guidance to explore these hypothetical Ethical dilemmas. A client has been in counselling for a year and has made great progress. She brings in an expensive gift for you. She knows that this is something that you would like, and she knows that you…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 15th May 2020

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This week we are looking at ethics in counselling, in particular, how to apply an understanding of an ethical framework to counselling practise sessions. This combines the two aspects of counselling that I feel are my weak areas: ethics and skills practises. Seeing as we are still in lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, we cannot actually do skills practise,…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 8th May 2020

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This week in lockdown, I am working on self-awareness and how it contributes to the ability to empathise with others. Empathy is a kind of emotional imagination; it is the ability to map the knowledge of your own feelings to those of someone else in order to gain a deeper understanding of how those emotions influenced their mental state, their…

L3CiCS Learning Log – 29th May 2020

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Limits of proficiency are, as they sound, the limits to which a counsellor can work. Once again, boundaries are important. People come to counselling for an incredibly wide range of reasons, and not all counsellors are fully trained in all aspects of counselling. A counsellor’s initial training is the foundation which can be built upon as they gain professional experience…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 7th May 2020

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Due to the ongoing Coronavirus crisis, we’ve not had a class at the Haven Community Centre for about seven weeks – it’s been crazy times. This week I met up with Gareth online via Skype to chat about research. It was quite strange talking to a screen rather than a person, that’s for sure. I explained to him the work…

L3CiCS Learning Log – 10th April 2020

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The purpose of this piece of work is to examine what is meant by research and how it informs and supports counselling work. What is research? Research is a lot of different things depending on the context. Pure research is more like exploring and finding out more information about something. Applied research is directed by a hypothesis or the desire…

L3CiCS Homework – 10th April 2020

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This week, as an introduction to the everyday use of research, we were asked to brainstorm how we would research buying a car. Quite handily, I have been researching buying a car for a while now, so the ideas should flow quite easily. I may even discover more aspects of research that I could include in my car hunt. I…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 10th April 2020

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Research is an interesting aspect of counselling and psychotherapy, and I think it is very important. It is essentially a sphere of knowledge that exists parallel to your own body of knowledge as a person and as a counsellor, and overlaps in places. Research, or “finding out what works” has created talking therapies and its different modalities and theories, and…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 3rd April 2020

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This week we looked at common mental health problems and possible reasons for their incidence in society. Mental health problems could be seen as skewed rules that people are trying to live their lives by. These abstract rules are mostly developed alongside the organism as it grows and learns to navigate this world we live in. These self-created rules form…