Category: Counselling Skills
Therapist anger: to express or not to express
Much attention has been given to the arousal and expression of anger from clients in therapy (Lewis et al, 2008; Greenberg, 2015). Meanwhile, the therapists’ own experiences of anger are often considered taboo, unresolved personal issues or unproductive countertransference. For example, Freud considered the relational aspect of the therapeutic work a matter of transference and…
Guide to counselling skills
Counselling skills are a cluster of learned and practised abilities that therapists use with clients to achieve the goals of therapy. Developing these skills involves a combination of knowledge, practice, reflection and feedback. Listening Listening is a core counselling skill – it’s also frustratingly hard. Growing up we’re told to control the narrative and dominate…
