My Own Counseling Approach

As a learner of the helping profession, it is a helper-in-training’s appropriate response to explore the kind of approach(es) he or she holds in trying to help others, as a result of becoming acquainted with the vast world of theories presented by studies done years before we even came into existence. As we gain knowledge and experience, it will soon be apparent that we hold specific beliefs, techniques and roles that were plucked from the trays of counseling approaches offered to us by schools of thoughts, which delved into the wondrous world of counseling.

As a Christian, a Filipino, and a woman, the approach that I have the tendency to work with may be quite unique from a Western counterpart’s. Even a fellow learner of the counseling profession who goes to the same class that I do may even hold a different set of approach. And I believe this is interesting and healthy. Interesting because it will become apparent that the kind of lives we live, and our personalities leave an imprint on the way we help others. Yet this is healthy because such variety also caters to the persons from different walks of life that are in need of professional help.

As we journey through my own counseling approach, I will do the best that I possibly could to present the repertoire of beliefs, perceptions and strategies that I have in mind when someone approaches me with the hopes of some kind of enlightenment in the midst of life’s confusion and battles.