You're Talking. But Are You Counselling?

BOOK TWO · THE PRACTISING CAREER COUNSELLOR

The Practical Communication Playbook for Career Counsellors

Knowing the theory is not enough if the conversation goes nowhere. This book shows you how to listen, ask better questions and build trust, so that students, parents and working professionals open up and reach their own decisions.

What's inside

• Building trust and a working alliance, and repairing it when a session goes wrong

• Listening that goes beyond nodding: reflecting, summarising and noticing what is missing

• Questions that open up thinking instead of closing it down

• Reframing, emotions in the room, and keeping your own reactions in check

• Honest influence: the OPEN Test for using language without manipulating

• Structuring a session: contracting, agendas with parents present, closing well

• Talking with students, parents and working professionals, including online sessions

• NLP ideas examined honestly next to established counselling methods

• Looking after yourself: counsellor wellbeing and avoiding burnout

• 9 chapters, 19 worksheets

Who it's for

Counsellors who know the theory but want their sessions to feel less like advice-giving and more like counselling, and trainers who teach counselling communication.

If you're already practising: Check whether your sessions are counselling or advice-giving, and fix the habits that creep in over years of practice.

Ready-to-use tools with the website ebook

• The Worksheet Pack: all 19 worksheets as fillable A4 pages, each with its purpose, an example and a caution

• Desk Quick-Reference Cards: the book's key tools on printable cards

• The Counsellor's Phrasebook: what to say and what to avoid for 25 everyday skills

• The Practice Triad Kit: ten role-play drills for groups of three

• Session Self-Review Kit: review your own recorded sessions, with consent, plus a 30-day practice plan

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