COMMUNICATION STYLES

OF A COUNSELOR
1. AMATEUR COUNSELOR
• Questions, analyses and diagnoses.

2. COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF
• Orders the upset person to get rid of
the negative feelings.
3. CONSOLER
• Doesn’t really want to get involved, thus
lightly dismisses the upset client’s feelings.

4. CRITIC
• Has to be right. Uses ridicule, name-calling,
sarcasm and jokes to respond to an upset
person.
5. JUDGE
• Evaluates and pronounces judgment on
other people’s feelings..

6. KNOW-IT-ALL
• Has all the answers. Lectures, advises,
reasons, appeals to logic and general acts
superior.
7. MORALIST

• Tells the upset client what he or she “should” or

“should not” feel and do.