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.