WHAT IS COUNSELING

THE NEED FOR COUNSELING

WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM COUNSELING
WHAT IS NOT COUNSELLING
INTRODUCE CARL ROGERS
WHAT IS ND COUNSELING
What is Counseling?
A process in which the counselor enables,
empowers and assists the client to understand
his/her problems, explore & evaluate choices
and take actions.
Role of the Counselor
• Enable caller to
explore/examine many
aspects of their life and
feelings
• Help the caller draw-out
answers from within
Need for counseling
• Quite often, people go through such phases of life
that affect their mood and behavior.
• People may face certain problems that they don’t
know how to handle. There may even be people in
their life that they want to be with but are having
trouble in the relationship.
• Counselling can be very helpful in resolving all these
situations and other mental health issues.
Need for counseling
• Career problems
• Going through Depression
• Going through Grief or Loss
• Having Panic Attacks
• Facing Emotional Turmoil
• Suffering from Addiction
• Facing Abuse
• Anxiety Issues
• Relationship Problems
Who can benefit from counseling?
Anyone who is going through some emotional stress or needs a new insights
to an issue. Few of counseling benefits
• Leads to self discovery
• Develop Confidence, Hope, and Encouragement
• Helps in The Management of Emotions
• Contribute to Self-acceptance
• Give Insight to Problems
• Provides mental peace
• Eradicate negative emotions
What is not counseling?
• Jumping to problem solving prematurely
• Giving any form of advice solicited or unsolicited
• Expressing opinions and judgements
• Taking charge of the problem and attempting to solve it.
• Trying to rescue people from their situations or problems
• Giving hope, making promises or giving commitments to callers without
any rational basis.
• Taking responsibility for what the callers do or do not do with their lives.

Above are all directive counseling methods. They do not help.

Carl Rogers
• American psychologist
• Founders of the person-centered approach (and client-
centered approach) in psychology
What is ND (Non directive counseling)?
• Creating a comfortable, open and helpful environment wherein
callers can share their discomfort and conflicts without fear of
being evaluated, judged, criticized or disapproved by us.
• Listening and observing callers to fully understand what they
are saying, how they are saying it and what they are going
through when they are with us
• Raising their self esteem through attention and active listening;
acceptance and respect for what they are and also for what they
are NOT as people; acceptance and respect for what they have
done or what they have NOT done; all this irrespective of our
opinion
What is ND (Non directive counseling)?
• Reassuring them that they have the strength to handle their
situations and that we are there to help them in the process.
• Bringing about changes in the callers through a process of
sharing, ventilation and gaining new insights.
• Assisting people to become adequate to solve their own
problems
• Giving information to strengthen decision making
• Being emotionally very supportive during the coping and
action process
 Characteristics of ND Counseling
1. It is a client-centered counseling.
2. It is based on the principle that a person has so much capacity
and drive that he can grow and develop so that he may face the
situations in reality.
3. In this school of thought, the counselor is passive to the
maximum.
4. Its use reduces psychological tensions.
5. In this type of counseling, there is closeness between the
picture of the self-drawn by the client and a desirable or an ideal
picture of his own.
 Characteristics of ND Counseling
6. Through this counseling his psychological adjustment
improves.
7. Client’s behavior is considered more matured
emotionally.
8. A person is accepted in his originality and he is free to
express his any attitude.
9. In this counseling, the entire responsibility is of client or
the person.
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