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1. Setting up as a counsellor

• How to get started
• What skills should you develop?
• We also help to assess your strengths and weaknesses

2. Stress, depression and suicide Stress Getting the right level of stress Identifying stress Conquering stress Getting in control Other ways a client can conquer stress Depression Symptoms of depression Treating the depressed client Self image Endogenous depression Anti-depressants Panic attacks Getting more sleep Techniques for getting sleep Suicide

3. Interviewing skills

• Responding to a prospect's enquiry
• The initial session
• Ending the initial session
• The client who wants to start straightaway
• The counselling process
• A note about medical conditions
• Your goal
• Don't offer solutions
• When the client asks for advice
• Helping the client reach a conclusion
• Psychosomatic illness
• Many problems don't have a solution
• When counselling fails
• Listening skills
• Become an expert listener
• The value of silence
• Questions
• The ‘Presenting Problem’ Challenging the client
• 'Treat me like I'm a six year old'
• Understand yourself
• The right attributes
  

4. Life and love, sexuality and partnerships

• Understanding the client’s goals
• Self assertiveness
• Role play
• Marriage guidance and divorce
• Attitudes towards the relationship
• Adultery
• Loss of libido (sex drive)
• Problems in the relationship
• Infertility
• Sexual difficulty
• Homosexuality
• Discussing money matters

5. Counselling young people

• Children's problems
• Children who bully or are bullied
• Disruptive or attention-seeking children
• Phobias
• Eating problems
• Separated parents
• Child abuse
• Dealing with physical child abuse
• The adult abuse victim
• Adoption
• Getting work from schools
• Your first meeting with the young person
• Shoplifting
• Discussion Weekends
• Family Therapy
• Issues in family therapy

6. Substance abuse: alcohol and drugs

• The counsellor's attitude towards drugs
• Smoking
• Smoking and the counsellor
• Drinking
• Tranquillisers
• Solvent abuse
• Illegal drugs
• Cocaine
• Heroin
• LSD
• Amphetamines
• Ecstasy
• Cannabis
• Gambling
• Children's gambling
• Food
• Dealing with the addict
• In an emergency

7. The elderly. Death and bereavement counselling

• Reminiscence therapy
• Getting reminiscence therapy work
• Counselling the dying
• Talking about pain
• Talking about death
• Counselling the bereaved
• Responding to emotion
• Physical comforting
• What you must not do
• The practical aspects of death
• About other organisations
• Getting paid
• Post-traumatic stress syndrome

8. Counselling at work

• Getting into a company
• Watching for signs of stress
• Get it down on paper
• Vulnerable people
• Helping people become more successful at work
• Becoming independent
• Improving the relationship with the boss
• Time management
• Body language
• Eight ways to make the right impression
• Four ways to use body language
• Getting success away from work
• A one day course on workplace counselling
• Structure for a workplace course on counselling
• A stress management course

9. How to find clients

• The types of clients
• How will you position yourself?
• Types of counselling
• Source of work
• Getting clients from advertising, publicity and networking
• The media
• Writing an ad
• PR
• Mailshot
• A leaflet
• Getting referrals from an organisation
• Client referrals
• How to find companies and professional organisations
• Local companies
• Response rates
• Talking about counselling
• Competition
• Responding to a client's question about competitors
• Product-based solutions

10. The advanced counsellor

• How much should you charge?
• Putting up your charges
• Premiums
• Discounts
• Payment
• Terminating the sessions
• The counselling business
• Keeping clients and the bank manager happy
• Client files
• Handling clients you don't like
• Your business name
• Keeping books
• Tax
• Liaising with other professionals
• Using Transactional Analysis