What is the purpose of counseling, after all? What are the aims and objectives of individual counseling?
Ask 100 therapists what the purpose of therapy is and you will get 100 different answers.There seems to be no agreed objective apart from helping the client to feel better, so one would hope there was some similarity between them.
It is a question that I think is ethical as surely as a therapist, we have a moral and ethical duty to do no harm and to be of service to our clients.What is the purpose?
Too much of a shift in either direction, and the ability to hold the individual and their underlying psychic structure becomes lost, is what I would suggest as a line between clinical diagnosis and being present with the client's experience.This doesn't provide an effective plan for treatment.
Gabor Mate's book "When The Body Says No, Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection" appeals to me greatly as a clinician who works with terminal patients and their relatives.The symptoms of trauma and stress manifest in the body when the client or patient is unable to access their emotions, either because they don't know how or they believe that to do so is wrong or dangerous.
This brought me back to the question of the ultimate purpose of therapy and I believe that it can be encapsulated by the following bullet points.
In the absence of an ability to flow with our emotional state in the here-and-now, we experience emotional stress which can leave us stuck.I agree with him.The effects can be devastating.
The client-therapist relationship is the key to successful talking therapy.Establishing any kind of genuine relationship is impossible unless the client is able to navigate their emotions.Unless the client is aware of what they are feeling, they will not be able to detach the past from the present and pendulate through their states of arousal, as their social engagement system cannot be activated.The client's therapist needs to be able to do this first.
Maybe the purpose of therapy is to create a relationship with the client that they never had.It is possible for the client to know themselves in the capacity of a relationship and then finally know the other if they are given a careful and precise attunement to their emotional and nervous system.Good mental and emotional health correlate with good physical health.
If a therapist is to teach their clients to listen to their own emotions, they have a fundamental responsibility.
I agree with what was said.Our goal is for the client to change their behavior.In order to achieve this, an atmosphere of client openness, trust and willingness to receive help is needed.The article is relevant to my review.