L3CiCS Counselling Agency Assignment

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The purpose of this assignment is to choose a counselling agency and research how it operates. I have chosen Off The Record. I chose this organisation because there was once a place in Southampton that offered a similar service that I visited when I was a troubled teenage to get some help. It helped me greatly, more than I realised…

Self-isolation, quarantine, whatever this limbo is; week seven

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Time is strange at the moment. It goes fast, but feels slow. Days take ages, but are over before you know it. This strange coronavirus limbo is warping things. It's so quiet outside, it's unreal. Eerie. Spooky. It feels like the entire world has been paused. I didn't get a rowing machine in the end, I'm ashamed to say the…

L3CiCS Learning Log – 29th November 2019

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Person Centred Counselling was developed by Carl Rogers in the 1950’s around the philosophy that people can change, and that they are not bound by personal events in their past, or their circumstances in the present. This change is achieved by the counsellor making use of the core conditions of the Person Centred approach, and these are: 1. Empathy –…

L3CiCS Homework – 22nd November 2019

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The Working Contract is established at the start of the therapeutic relationship, and outlines the framework from which the relationship will hopefully flourish. It is often the first time that boundaries are explicitly communicated by the counsellor to the client, and it is important that these boundaries are laid out in a clear and easy to understand way. I think…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 15th November 2019

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This week we went straight into roleplays with relation to discrimination – as a client we had to play someone that had experienced some kind of discrimination or was somehow different to the counsellor. First off, I was counsellor to Leonardo’s client. His difference was that he felt he was being mistreated by his employer because of his Attention Deficit…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 8th November 2019

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We were still working on diversity, discrimination and prejudice this week. Our tutor asked us to discover all the ways (both positive and negative) in which diversity can impact on the counselling relationship, which allowed us to consider how to take diversity issues into account when developing a counselling relationship. The most obvious negative one is a counsellor being unable…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 11th October 2019

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This week we looked at what we feel and think are necessary to developing an effective working relationship with clients. I think the most important one, one that Carl Rogers outlined many years ago, is a core condition of the therapeutic counselling relationship – Unconditional Positive Regard. UPR is a non-judgemental point of view and an accepting attitude toward the…
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…