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…

L3CiCS Comparing Counselling Theories Assignment

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The aim of this essay is to compare and contrast two counselling theories of my choice. I have chosen to compare Psychodynamic Counselling and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. The philosophy behind the Psychodynamic Counselling approach is that we all have an unconscious mind as well as a conscious one. It states that the unconscious mind can hold on to painful memories…

L3CiCS Learning Log – 12th June 2020

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This week we are looking at Assessment in counselling, and how it informs the counselling work. In counselling, assessment is the process used to determine if counselling is appropriate and needed, which type of counselling would be the most suitable for a client’s needs, and to take an initial measurement of the severity of the client’s issues. Assessments are important…

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 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 Learning Log – 28th February 2020

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This week we looked at the role of supervision in counselling, and its importance. I understand that supervision in counselling is of the upmost importance as it provides another layer of safety for both the client and counsellor. Clinical Supervision in Counselling is when a counsellor meets with another, more experienced counsellor to review their casework and the way they…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary 31st January 2020

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This week we looked at why theory is important in counselling work. Through a group discussion we identified several key aspects of why it is important, and I was quite surprised by the amount we came up with. First though, I think it’s important that I reflect on what is meant by the word “theory”. A theory is generally a…

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 –…