L3CiCS Counselling Theory and Self-Awareness Assignment

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The purpose of this assignment is to show how learning about counselling theory and applying it to your own life can promote and increase self-awareness, by deepening the understanding of your own personality, history and relationships. This will be a very personal journey through my counselling studies so far, and hopefully a good reflection of what I have learned about…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 14th February 2020

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This week we split into small groups reflected on how what we have learned about the various theories so far help us understand our relationships, both past and present, and the ways in which we form, develop, maintain and end those relationships. Psychodynamic Counselling really helped me learn about my relationships. I mentioned the other week that the trauma of…
L2CiCS: Learning Log – 23rd May 2018

L2CiCS: Learning Log – 23rd May 2018

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This week we looked at enabling the client to identify and focus on their needs and concerns. They might not know where to start, what they want to talk about or even have the capacity to put those thoughts into words. Counsellors identify any difficulties clients have, and use the relevant skills to enable the healing process. We had a…
L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 21st February 2018

L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 21st February 2018

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This week we talked about Transactional Analysis a bit more, and were asked to participate in an exercise our tutor has called Know Thyself. Understanding ego-states is a powerful tool towards self-awareness. In this exercise we are to keep a note of which ego-state we are in at different points of the day and asking ourselves some questions. My Parent…
L2CiCS: Learning Log – 31st January 2018

L2CiCS: Learning Log – 31st January 2018

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This week, Sue did a presentation on Transactional Analysis; in particular Sue talked about the ego-states, what they are and how they represent us. Transactional Analysis was founded in the late 1950’s by Eric Berne, and is a therapy based on the theory that each person has three ego-states: Parent, Adult and Child. These are different from real parents, children…
L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 31st January 2018

L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 31st January 2018

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This week’s Reflective Diary includes my thoughts on Sue’s presentation, as well as my reflections on our roleplays. To monitor our personal development, we were tasked with identifying responses in ourselves that occur during a helping interaction. We did this with several rounds of roleplay. The first roleplay of the evening was Emily as the counsellor, and I played the…