Psychological Counselling

» redback - privacy too

This is an excellent subject so thanks for raising it as it may help to remove the stigma.

You raised the different styles or theories followed by therapists and that aspect is also interesting. What is one's expectations? That you want the therapist to supply all the answers OR to empower you. For me, I'd also ask what approach they use if I need a therapist.

In my earlier life...the Staff Counsellor I selected for the support team had a Masters Degree in Counselling and extensive experience. The executive wanted to know far more detail about her clients (fellow staff) than her or I were prepared to divulge. So, given the acute problems with levels of management at the time, there were "challenges" in her gaining credibility among staff...that what she promised to them would remain private, did remain private.

And "challenges" for me to keep my manager's job when I wouldn't act as they directed. When they would only locate her office within the executive suite of offices, I authorised her to make "house" calls including coffee shops.

We still keep in touch some 10 years on.

-- posted by redback

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