Life Counselling & Coaching
Life Counselling often refers to relationship counselling and is the process of counselling the client (or clients in the case of two participants of a relationship) in an effort to recognize and to better manage or reconcile troublesome differences and repeating patterns of distress. The relationship involved in the life counselling sessions may be between members of a family or a couple, employees or employers in a workplace, or between a professional and a client.
Short term life counseling may be between 1 to 3 sessions whereas long term may be between 12 and 24 sessions. An exception being “brief” or “solutions-based” life counselling. In addition, counselling tends to be more 'here and now' and new coping strategies the outcome. It is about overcoming seemingly insurmountable problems in the emotional realm.
The duty and function of Alkistis is to listen, respect, understand and facilitate better functioning between those involved.
The basic principles include:
- Provide a confidential dialogue, which normalizes feelings
- To enable each person to be heard and to hear themselves
- Provide a mirror with expertise to reflect the relationship's difficulties and the potential and direction for change
- Empower the relationship participants to take control of their own destiny and make vital decisions
- Deliver relevant and appropriate information
- To identify the repetitive, negative interaction cycle as a pattern.
- To understand the source of reactive emotions that drive the pattern.
- To expand and re-organize key emotional responses in the relationship.
- To facilitate a shift in partners' interaction to new patterns of interaction.
- To create new and positively bonding emotional events in the relationship
- To foster a secure attachement between partners.
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