Essay On Counseling Relationship

Terminating Counseling Sessions and Relationships Termination, whether of a counseling session or a counseling relationship, requires an intentional dedication of time on the part of the counselor. Jacobs and Schimmel (2013) highlighted the benefits of intentionally dedicating time to termination to allow the client an opportunity to identify what insight they gained during a session or the counseling process, thus reinforcing valuable insight and experiences that can be applied outside of the helping relationship. The following narrative focuses on both terminating a counseling relationship and terminating a counseling session. Specifically, a reason for termination is discussed as well as steps to terminating a counseling relationship. Additionally,

21). In order to effectively terminate a counseling relationship with a client, counselors utilize specific steps such as those taken by Dr. Jason Patton, Ph.D. in the video by Laureate Education, Inc. (2010) entitled “Counseling Techniques and Demonstration – Micro-Skills IV”. First, Dr. Patton began the session addressing termination and then summarized the client’s positive progress and what the client had learned from the start of the helping relationship. In addition to highlighting the clients’ progress, Dr. Patton identified the client’s strengths such as her willingness to trust in her own feelings and emotions as well as her enhanced ability to manage her anxiety. Towards the end of the session, Dr. Patton again emphasized the positive progress of the client as the helping relationship progressed as she improved her ability to manage her anxiety over time. Finally, Dr. Patton terminated the relationship through providing support and encouragement to the client as well as a self-disclosure on the impact of the helping relationship for closure (Laureate Education, Inc.,