The second step is to establish a consultant-interviewer relationship. Counselors will have a lot of feelings with you, let you vent your emotions, and the unconditional positive attention of counselors will give you spiritual encouragement and support. So keep increasing your trust in the counselor, and then you will be more likely to let go of your self-defense and express yourself more. This process is called self-exposure. Let you build up the motivation to ask for help and negotiate with each other to make some contracts, such as completing some homework and making an appointment for consultation.
Third, with the deepening of consultation, it is time to analyze and understand the problem. First of all, you should determine your consulting objectives, and then make a plan. Psychological counselors will get information by observing your expression, including some body language, and then use professional knowledge to lead you to explore the causes of the problem step by step, so that you can understand the nature of the problem, rebuild your cognition of the problem, and slowly dredge your emotions, explore yourself and discover yourself.
The fourth is to enter the stage of suggestion or reconstruction. The purpose of psychological counseling is to make visitors grow up, change their cognitive emotions and behaviors, and change their lives. Therefore, psychological counselors will also use many psychological techniques to change your cognition and behavior, and will assign homework and track your situation when necessary. According to your situation, choose whether to end or continue the consultation relationship, and then the assistant and the teacher will pay a return visit. I feel that psychological counseling has really helped me a lot.