Counselling
ATTRIBUTES OF AN EFFECTIVE COUNSELLOR
1. The counsellor understands that the most basic motivation of people is
toward self-fulfillment and that the reward of counselling is to share in
that experience.
2. The counsellor demonstrates stability in her/his personal life that positively
affects security in career, family and community relationships.
3. The counsellor conveys a willingness to be actively involved in personal
growth. The ability of a counsellor to facilitate growth in another is directly
tied to her/his own openness, willingness to change, and recognition that
personal growth is a life-long process.
4. The counsellor’s goal is to accept people as they are, understanding
that each person possesses her/his own set of values and beliefs.
5. The counsellor possesses the ability to relate with people of different
ethnic, socioeconomic, educational or cultural backgrounds.
6. A level of genuineness is present in the counsellor. This implies the
ability to be truly one’s self with others.
7. The counsellor has the capacity to empathize and to communicate her/his
empathy to others.
