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Chapter 2: The Counselor as a Person and a Professional - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Knowing that your discomfort will most probably impede your work with a client can supply the motivation for you to change and to realize that you also have an ethical responsibility to be present with your clients.
- - - - countertransference involves the therapist’s total emotional response to a client including feelings, associations, fantasies, and fleeting images
  - - - client may assume you have all of the answers
    - - Countertransference can greatly benefit the therapeutic work if clinicians monitor their feelings and use their responses as a source for understanding clients and helping clients to understand themselves.
      - The ability of therapists to gain self-understanding and establish appropriate boundaries with clients is fundamental to managing and effectively using their countertransference reactions.
      - Personal therapy and clinical supervision can be especially helpful to therapists in understanding how their internal reactions influence the therapy process and how to use these countertransference reactions to assist clients.
- - - - Essentially, it is our goal to work ourselves out of a job by empowering our clients and helping them achieve their goals in therapy.
- - - - It is important to recognize when this is happening. Signs to look for are irritability and emotional exhaustion, feelings of isolation, abuse of alcohol or drugs, having a relapse from recovery, reduced personal effectiveness, indecisiveness, compulsive work patterns, drastic changes
- - - - empathy balance, which involves being able to enter the client’s world without getting lost in that world.
        
        The challenge is learning to balance caring for others with caring for self.