Counselling Scenario: Trustworthiness and resilience

This vignette considers differences in the counsellor and their client and how that might be worked with effectively.

• How might you engage with a client who is relucant to be in counselling, and who views you as very different to them and thus perhaps unable to understand their situation?

Author Discussion – Trustworthiness and resilience

Tim Bond discusses trustworthiness in counselling.

• Tim Bond considers the importance of trust in the counselling relationship, and how social differences might be a cause of mistrust between counsellor and their client.