Hard-Earned Lessons from Counselling in Action

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Counsellors often struggle in their work with clients, convinced that their more experienced colleagues have not encountered similar problems and have not been faced with similar worries.In this powerful volume, some of Britain's leading counsellors give the lie to this myth. Writing openly and frankly, they share the painful lessons they have learned over the course of their careers as practitioners. Their combined experience proves that all counsellors, no matter how expert or well-known, have made mistakes, or faced challenges, and from them have had to learn aspects about the process of counselling - the hard way. Each `lesson', and there are five from each contributor, is placed in the context of the counsellor's own particular circumstances, and a concluding section in each chapter links the connecting themes that emerged throughout their learning process.Supportive and encouraging, these personal accounts of growth and development are representative of the problems that emerge in the practice of counselling; the advice and wealth of experience they contain will be invaluable for all counsellors, both novice and experienced.