SAN PABLO COLLEGES

San Pablo City, Laguna, Philippines

Graduate School

Rose Marnie R. Manding

MAGC – EDUC 208

MY COUNSELING PHILOSOPHY

As I enter the world of teaching and took a MA course in Guidance Counseling, my

personal view about counseling has developed. Counseling is as a journey of self-exploration by
the client, meant to increase his/her level of self-understanding and self-awareness. In counseling
we should be a good listener for all the clients. Always reminded that every word that we say, it
is our responsibility so we should be careful. The values and principles counselors are expected
to have in their profession, they are also required to give their clients rights and freedoms before
and after the counseling session begins. Counseling generally refers to the provision of assistance
or guidance that eventually helps solve personal, social or mental problems. A professional
individual normally administers it. It normally takes a number of forms including individual
counseling, group counseling, and couples counseling. The innovators of counseling theory
based their work on many factors other than empirically validated, scientific methods and
clinical experience. Personal factors, religion, life experience, family, the cultural, and childhood
experiences may all have played a role in the innovator’s experience that led to the creation of an
agreed upon counseling theory. Through counseling we can help difficulties of an individual like
failure.  Failures are meant to teach you a lot of things and make you a better person for the
future. Learn to deal with the failure and you will have the ability to deal with every barrier that
might come across. Also Career pressure, when you are on the path to being successful, you will
face work-related issues. Along with those issues, you might have the difficulty in getting on
with your career. Thousands of issues can arise such as not getting the promotion you worked so
hard for, not getting the job you applied so wishfully for, and so on. To deal with these issues,
identify the issues that might be within you such as personal issues or attitudinal problems. Work
on yourself and get back on your feet and try again. I do prefer School Population or Group
because I am an educator; I want to develop not only an individual but as a whole. School
counseling takes place in public and private school settings in grades K-12. Counseling is
designed to facilitate student achievement, improve student behavior and attendance, and
help students develop socially. Mental health professionals with master’s degrees or beyond,
school counselors both provide counseling and serve an educational role in and around
schools. We can support students/teachers who are experiencing personal or  academic
challenges, help students choose careers and plan for college, and intervene when students
face behavioral, physical, or mental health challenges. By communication skills, listening and
attending and multicultural competencies by the use of theories.
SAN PABLO COLLEGES
San Pablo City, Laguna, Philippines
Graduate School