Basic Counselling Skills
Learn How to Effectively Listen & Validate the Client for Optimal Results
This Basic Counseling Skills course is designed to prepare students to develop is the ability to listen to another person. The goal is to understand what another person is really trying to say.
Anyone who administers to the public welfare may end up in the role of therapist. This includes alternative health practitioners such as massage therapists and naturopaths to coaches, doctors, dentists, nurses, social workers, or teachers.
This course is designed to help students to be prepared to help others with really intimate life issues. The counseling skills course will help the student reflect back what the person is saying without coloring it through your own judgments and opinions to understand it from their point of view. This requires the ability to create empathy. This course takes an in depth look at the characteristics and qualities of empathy.
Who is the course for?
This course is for anyone who would like to strengthen these skills for professional and personal reasons including, alternative health practitioners, sports coaches, doctors, dentists, nurses, or others who will be dealing with the public.
Students will learn:
Basic counseling skills,
- Rapport- how to develop and maintain.
- Empathy- learns the characteristics and qualities for creating empathy.
- Active Listening Skills- reflect back what another person is expressing.
- Skilled Helper Protocols.
- Interviewing Skills.
- Working With Difficult Clients.
This course engages the ideas on three fronts:
- Theory: learn key ideas of counseling skills.
- Practice: practice (groups of three) as:
- listener
- client
- observer
- Self-development: experiential exploration of your own response to the ideas.
This structure reflects a central idea in counseling that you need to understand the concepts, develop your counseling skills, and become more self-aware.
Pre-Requisite:
None Required
Number of Hours:
Live Training = 27
Self-Study Theory = 9
Extra-Curricular Assignments = 30
Total Credited Hours = 66
This Course Includes:
- Downloadable student training manual
- Online classroom theory
- Live hands-on training
- Live webinars for questions and answers
- Written and demonstrated examinations
Course Completion:
Ideally students will complete this course within 4 months, however you have up to 2 years to fully complete the requirements.
Certification:
Upon successful completion of the course and its requirements students will receive a certificate of completion.
Your Instructor
About Jennifer Eve Alexander, Clinical Hypnotherapist & Instructor
Jennifer was the founder of the College of Professional Hypnotherapy and Results Therapy International Association. From 1998 to 2021, she was involved in hypnotherapy and NLP. She ran her own successful practice and as well as taught hypnotherapy and NLP. For over two decades, she studied human behaviour and helped her clients overcome their issues and supported them to live healthy lives.
Over the years, she helped numerous people overcome chronic health conditions, enhance sports performance, improve relations, and increase financial wealth. She was passionate about teaching people the power of hypnosis and educating them on how they can manifest the life they’ve always dreamed of.
As an author, she published two books, “101 Stories That Never Happened: Secrets to a Depression Free Life” and “From Resistance to Results: 7 Keys to Achieving Any Goal,” as well as co-authored the book, “Entrepreneurial Spirits” with Dr. Joe Vitale and John Assaraf (from the movie, “The Secret”).
Following Jennifer's passing in May 2021, she designated Jill Fischer as the benefactor of the College of Professional Hypnotherapy. Consequently, the institution underwent a name change to the School of Clinical Hypnotherapy. Currently, the School operates within the framework of the College of Holistic Healing, with oversight provided by President, Jill Fischer, MA CCHt.
Jennifer's Teaching Philosophy
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is quoted as saying, “If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.”
This quote beautifully sums up Jennifer's teaching philosophy. Through her hypnotherapy experience, She was blessed with the ability to see the best in people. To see beyond their fears, limitations, blockages, and challenges and help them pull out their true potential.
Human beings want to be around people who believe in them. Jennifer believed not just in her courses, but in her students, and she strove to bring out the best in each one of them.
It is with heartfelt gratitude that we embrace her teachings and her contribution to the field of hypnotherapy inspiring us to lead lives of extraordinary depth and meaning!
Here’s to your successful journey towards prosperity and enlightenment!