How is counselling done? Counselling for Marriage, Mental Health, Emotion, Children & Family...

  • Counselling is different from teaching, not directive.
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  • Directive teaching is like the interactive mode between teacher and student that teacher is active and student is passive. If the directive teaching is applied in counselling, it will lack of interaction, thinking, reflecting and practice, then the effectiveness of counselling will be weakened and impaired.
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  • Moreover, counselling is always about life issues and problems, the nature is different from directive teaching very much, and the complexity of counselling is very high. Meanwhile, everyone is unique, values ​​and judgments are varied from person to person, too.

  • The counselling process is to help people to think and reflect comprehensively in multiple perspectives through the professional counselling systematic analysis and questions asking, it is to improve one’s self-regulation and integrate personal abilities, recognize their own blind spots and break through their own framework, finally the person is capable to find out the most suitable solution for oneself, that is to help overcome one’s current marital, family and personal difficulties and get out of the mental and emotional distress.
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  • One can also further apply what have learned through the counselling process to different daily situations, so that one can correctly recognize emotion and understand the impact of negative emotion, effectively manage and control emotion, experience empathy and empathize the other, easily concentrate and relax to relieve stress, improve awareness and know the influence of family of origin clearly, change personal mentality, enhance personal ability and sense of control, make thought more optimistic and behavior more responsible, be more positive and confident, more self-compassionate, improve interpersonal relationship, continue to learn, grow and develop regardless of age, so as to reduce the chance of recurrence of problem, and move towards holistic health including physical, mental, social and spiritual.
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  • Therefore, professional counselling has both preventive and therapeutic effect, and the proactive participation of the service users are very crucial.

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