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🫂Counselling skills
Learn to listen well and help people feel heard in any conversation
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Unit 1
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Course overview
What counselling is, and what it is not
Counselling defined
Helping skills are not a licence to practise
Scope and limits
The ethical frame, in plain words
Why ethics come first
Confidentiality and its limits
Privacy with limits
Unit 2
Boundaries
Holding the edges
When to refer, and duty of care
Knowing your limits
Carl Rogers and the core conditions
The three conditions
Empathy up close
Feeling with, not for
Unconditional positive regard
Acceptance without conditions
Unit 3
Congruence
Being genuine
Attending, the skill before words
Showing up with your body
Open questions and minimal encouragers
Opening the door
Paraphrasing
Reflecting back the content
Reflecting feeling
Naming the emotion
Unit 4
Summarising and silence
Two quieter skills
Empathy versus sympathy versus advice
Three different responses
Rapport and the working alliance
The relationship that does the work
The major approaches at a glance
Five schools of therapy
A closer look at motivational interviewing
OARS and rolling with resistance
Unit 5
The stages of a helping conversation
Egan's three stages
Working with strong emotions and crisis basics
Staying steady, knowing the line
Cultural humility
Not assuming you know
Self-care and supervision
You cannot pour from empty
Common beginner mistakes
What to stop doing
Unit 6
Where to go next
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