The methodology of psychotherapeutic counseling usually includes such points as:
- Contact, rapport, format.
Contact enables the consultant to be heard, rapport allows the client’s consultant to lead. Along with rapport, sometimes it is also necessary to establish a format: to set the framework and rules of interaction for the client.
- Speak up, relax
It is important for a person in a difficult state to give the opportunity to speak out. During this, you can also collect information, but the main task is for a person to relieve himself, relax. Primary operative psychotherapy.
- Problem definition.
The client complains, pours out his soul, the consultant at this time must understand the facts, the specifics and understand what is the main thing in this heap of problems, where is the essence. Clarification of the internal picture of the client (what the client sees as a problem, how he experiences it) and the objective life and personal situation of the client (the level of his intellect and culture, his condition, mood, etc.). See →
- Finding a solution
Considering technical solutions. The “For” moment will be the consent or emotional response of the client: insight, catharsis, willingness to do it. You don’t have to press, “Well, at least think about the possibility.”
- Personal psychotherapy counseling.
Building the past and the present, the work is often directive, although it is preferable to work together with the client. If joint with the client, then this is joint creativity, the development of a way to solve the problem. Psychotherapeutic counseling includes both a reasonable orientation of the client in the situation, and raising his resource state (secondary operational psychotherapy), and working with his internal resistance. See →
- Completion of the consultation.
The consultation should end on a positive note and with the necessary suggestions.