Counselling is always a part of any treatment session. As a therapist it is important to be able to build a rapport with your clients and create a safe therapeutic environment. This is essential to enable the client to relax and open up to the healing process of whatever therapeutic approach is used.
Counselling creates the foundation for mutual understanding where the client can express their fears, aspirations, intentions, and hopes by telling their “story”. This often provides me as a Reiki therapist with invaluable information on their state of being. As an empath I can also access the non-verbal information during the counselling part of the healing session – everything they are hiding, hiding from, and supressing but which is expressed through body language, tone of voice, facial expressions, and choice of words and wording.
Counselling also provides the client the opportunity to assess their comfort with me as a Reiki practitioner, to ask questions and gain the necessary information to “validate” their choice in therapy and therapist. It is my opinion that energetic compatibility and resonance between client and therapist are critical to the effectiveness of a healing session. This can really only be established through the counselling part of a healing session.
Within my Reiki practice I incorporate many of the principles of effective counselling into the treatment session, e.g.:
- Encouraging clients to express their emotions. By doing this the effectiveness of Reiki therapy is enhanced and clients can enter into an altered state of understanding themselves, their emotions and how others perceive and respond to them and their emotions.
- Encouraging clients to be very specific about their aspirations and their fears. Fear is often the most debilitating emotion and by starting to acknowledge, pinpoint and express such fears the battle towards healing has already made great progress.
- As a good starting point in understanding the client and in formulating an initial therapy and healing strategy a preliminary counselling session with the client often gives a clear indication of the client’s own self-distortions, whether they perceive their lives as more or less satisfying and how they experience pleasure, peace, contentment. This provides me with invaluable information that informs my approach towards addressing the specific client and his/her needs on a therapeutic level.
- Establishing a solid platform through counselling from where a client can be provided with guidance within the context of their healing journey, whether formally through example the Transformation Coaching I offer, or informally through their own process of meditation, mindfulness and other practices.
- Completing the “feedback loop” through counselling is extremely supportive of the clients continued progress. Through counselling it is possible to provide the client with the “mirror” through which they can see the growth and progress they…
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