Online counseling generally refers to the provision of professional life & work counselling & coaching services concerns via the internet communication technology. Often called e-life counselling, e- work counselling or online coaching, the services are typically offered via email, real-time chat over SKYPE. Some clients use online counseling in conjunction with traditional psychotherapy, and others use it as an occasional check-in tool for their lives.
Work Counselling & Coaching (or Career Counselling & Coaching)
In Work Counseling and coaching are similar in nature to traditional work counselling. However, the focus is generally on issues such as career exploration, career change, personal career development and other career related issues. Typically when people come for work counselling they know exactly what they want to get out of the process, but are unsure about how it will work.
Alkistis works with people from all walks of life such as adolescents looking to explore career options or with experienced professionals looking for a career change. Alkistis has been work counselling clients for over 15 years , and has a background in both business (banking) and psychology, vocational psychology, and industrial/organizational psychology.
Generally the process includes 3 stages: Assessment, Counseling and Coaching.
- Assessment: The client uses most of the first Work Counselling session(s) to go into explaining the issues at hand, and about him/herself. Their situation in life. Where are they coming from? Where are they now? Where would they like to be in the future?
- Counselling: The client and Alkistis both explore various possibilities/ possible outcomes. These are called “Desired Life Scenarios”, based on Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)
- Coaching: Regular ie weekly,bi-weekly or monthly meetings are arranged over a pre-determined period, where Alkistis and the client have set some targets and goals which are “checked-up on” at regular intervals. The coaching includes strategy refining as well as motivation.
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