Beginner Counselor - What Are The Issues They Faced? (Part II)

6. Demanding clients Are they so demanding? Naturally, why not? They are the customer, right? But that is the issue, beginner counselor does not know how to deal with clients who love to make constant demands. Sometimes client just want to spend more time with you, they want to see you more often and maybe they just want to spend the evening with you. Sound scary huh? Not really, if you know how to handle them. How? Make it clear during the initial counseling stage that you have certain boundaries and limitation with your profession. 7. Lack of commitment from client Am not sure about any survey, but am sure that there are people who are not voluntary to go for counseling session, especially student. So if this is the case, how you are going to create a good relationship with your client? Are you promising all under the sun to your client? Don't do that! Don't keep promise that you cannot deliver. Let your client know what will be the counseling process like. 8. Tolerating Ambiguity Counseling session is just like taking an exam; you won't get your result on the spot! Start learning to tolerate with the ambiguity of not knowing whether your client is satisfied or not; whether they are OK or not. It is also common that client might 'traumatized' at the early stage before they show therapeutic gains. 9. Sense of humor any one? Yes i know that most of the therapists or counselors are having problem with their facial impression. They can't seem to smile. Genetically they are human, like us. So go ahead and smile and create some humorous environment. But be careful, both you and your client need to know that humor and laughter does not mean that your disrespect the later, ok! By the way, what else can we do to cover up our anxiety? Is it laughter is the best medicine to cure the anxiety? I don't know, you tell me.