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Counseling Skills
A reading path through related lessons. Shared lessons can appear in more than one path. View curriculum coverage and limits →
What this path helps you do
- Practice supported here
- Distinguish reflection from reassurance, respond to ambivalence, and connect a collaborative goal to an observable change.
- Preparation
- Use a skills lab or supervised role-play to test how your responses land.
- Where to go further
- Written cases cannot evaluate voice, timing, nonverbal attending, or performance with an actual practice partner.
Listen for feeling and meaning
Distinguish a reflection from advice, reassurance, or interpretation.
Person-centered work is more than being nice
Connect empathy, acceptance, and congruence to the therapeutic relationship.
Motivational interviewing & ambivalence
Distinguish evoking motivation from arguing for change.
Build a collaborative learning case plan
Distinguish a broad goal from a measurable objective.
Practice cultural humility
Distinguish curiosity about a person from assumptions about a group.
Repairing a rupture after the counselor gets it wrong
Recognize a possible strain in the working relationship without treating disagreement or silence as a client defect.
Opening the first session: a short demonstration
Open a first meeting with clear roles, usable privacy information, and an invitation to the client’s priorities.
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