Why do you want to be a counsellor or psychotherapist?:
• You may be in a job where you feel that counselling skills would enhance your work.
• It may be that you have had some counselling or psychotherapy yourself, and found the experience so valuable, or the therapist or counsellor so helpful, that you want to do the same for someone else.
• You may be the kind of person to whom others are always bringing their problems.
• You believe that a training would offer you discipline and boundaries, as well as theory and structure.
• You may like helping or caring for others and are interested in their stories.
• You may want to find out more about yourself.
• You are fascinated by human behaviour.
• It may be that you want to train for a different career, and consider that you would make a good counsellor or psychotherapist.
• You may not recognise your own needs, vicariously helping others who are needy.
What appeals to you about therapy work?
What other reasons might there be?
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Publication Information: Book Title: Choosing a Counselling or Psychotherapy Training: A Practical Guide. Contributors: Sylvie K. Schapira - author. Publisher: Routledge. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 2000. Page Number: 233.
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