The first stage is psychological evaluation and diagnosis: when you decide to seek the help of a counselor, you begin psychological counseling. At this stage, psychological counselors need to establish a consulting relationship with visitors, clarify the rights and obligations of both parties, and establish a trust relationship. Secondly, collect visitors' information through conversations and tests, so as to clarify the problems that visitors want to solve. Then psychological diagnosis will make a preliminary judgment on the situation of the visitors, such as whether they belong to the scope of psychological counseling, and determine the counseling goals with the visitors, such as improving anxiety, changing unreasonable cognitive patterns, mastering the ability to cope with setbacks, and so on. Generally, it consists of 1-2 consulting.
The second stage is the consultation stage: the consultant will use professional techniques and processes to help visitors analyze and solve problems. In this process, visitors need to complete certain tasks and self-awareness, so as to achieve the purpose of solving problems. This stage is the core stage of psychological counseling. According to the situation and problems of visitors, counselors need to adopt different methods for consultation. According to the different consulting objectives, this stage includes many consultations.
The third stage is the consolidation and summary stage: the psychological counselor will summarize and review the whole consultation process with the visitors, and apply what he has learned in the consultation to his later life, constantly improve his personality and improve his mental health.