Rise Together

10 Essential Skills of Counselor  1. Ability to understand the client and make them feel understood 2. Ability to ask the right questions to dig deeper into the problem 3. Ability to actively listen to client without judgement and prejudice 4. Ability to communicate both literarily and metaphorically 5. Ability to help the client clearly define the aspiring future 6.Ability to help client shift focus from past to present and future 7.Ability to work with conditioned behaviors, thoughts, positive intentions, feelings, defence mechanism, believes and values 8.Ability to help client release suppressed intense emotions and replace them with constructive ones 9.Ability to help client recover repressed memories and work with them 10.Ability to move forward in the session by keeping the focus on the client In order to successfully execute these skills certain subset of skills can be used including: 1. Empathetic understanding: it refers to understanding client's emotions and feelings whi...