Counselling Supervisor

Jacqui is a clinical member of ACA and available for supervision. The government requires all counsellors to have ongoing supervision. Supervision sessions are counted as points to your ongoing professional development requirements. (Jacqui provides face to face session or sessions over the phone). 

These session are to support the counsellor, helps to clarified issues looking at feedback given to the client and helps you to see different points of view. The supervisor can be a very good sounding board if your own issues have been triggered. It is useful to review you clients feedback and what areas you may feel inadequate.

Some common Empathy Blocker

• Criticising and being judgemental
• Giving labels branding the person
• Praising to manipulate
• Moralising
• Excessive and inappropriate questioning
• Advising
• Diverting
• Logical arguments

Good counselling habits endeavour to:

Change the word should to could, listen more than give advice, understand the others feelings without judgment accept the other persons reality.

Helpful ways to resolves Conflict

• Share the problem
• Outline the incident
• Understand the others point of view
• No blame
• Identify the misunderstanding.
• Acknowledge difference of opinion
• Indentify feelings e.g. anger, frustration, guilt, shame. Inadequacy, resentment.
• What could be the consequences?
• What is there to lose?
• Is it a a point of pride, principal
• Are you stuck in the way things were done I the past
• What could be done differently this time
• If I did know what to be what would I do