On Becoming a Counselor: 24 Secrets Revealed
By Dr Paras
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Are you a practicing counselor? Or are you aiming to be one? You are about to get 24 secrets that will help you ace your counseling skills.
‘On Becoming a Counselor’ by Dr. Paras goes into the depths of counseling while explaining Dr. Paras’ well-kept secrets now revealed in an easy-to-read format. This book acts as a handy guide to elevate your studies in an exciting and rewarding field. If you particularly love to guide and motivate people, it acts as a complete resource that provides a strong framework with a roadmap to master one’s counseling skills.
Counseling skills are best mastered by deepening the practice. With this book, you learn the History of Counseling as a career while understanding details about an Informed Consent in the counseling process. The book explores many practices in 24 detailed chapters that act as a guiding light for all professionals. The purpose of counseling is to work towards improving people’s lives and build their mental strength to resolve problems. A professional counselor and ICF and EMCC certified coach, Dr. Paras shares his expertise gathered over 16+ years of professional practice. This makes it a must-have in your reading list.
Coach Dr. Paras (Founder at Matrrix, India) is a professional with international awards and certifications to his credit. He works with his clients in India and abroad, striving to improve the lives of all through his sessions, books, blogs, podcasts, and more. His works have also appeared in prominent publications. He holds a vision to rebuild lives through the power of his coaching and counseling skills. Through this book, he aspires to reach maximum counselors to work towards his vision.
Dr Paras
Dr. Paras is one of India’s youngest coaches whose name was announced for the “Young Leader Award” by the International Coach Federation in 2019 (USA). He always highlights the mind is our greatest tool and defines the numerous ways we can harness this intelligence to lead successful lives. He began learning the subject of counseling at the age of 16 years. From there on, his career took flight in the world of counseling and coaching fetching him international awards that recognized his contributions to rebuild lives.During his 16+ years of experience, he has donned several hats that required him to play the role of a counselor, coach, trainer, mentor, hypnotherapist, and NLP Practitioner. His passion for changing lives to create success stories led to the establishment of Matrrix, now owned by Dr. Paras Wellness Pvt. Ltd. He launched ‘Mental Strength Professional’ under the Matrrix banner to offer his 107 counseling expertise to numerous people in India and across the world. He has a team of highly skilled professional counselors who carry on his vision through various counseling practices.With this book, Dr. Paras endeavors to extend the reach of his knowledge while crafting experts in the field of counseling. Readers will find this to be a handy resource they can always refer to while continuing their study of counseling and moving towards the counseling practice with confidence and determination.Dr. Paras is also an active author. His works have appeared in prominent publications which have served as a model of inspiration to all his readers. He is also found blogging on subjects pertinent to the counseling and coaching industry.You can visit his blogs online at www.coachdrparas. com or on Twitter (@drparas_)
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On Becoming a Counselor - Dr Paras
Importance of Counseling Skills
"Accept corrections and you’ll improve and
increase."
- Israelmore Ayivor
Counseling is a process. In psychology, counseling works in different domains of life. Sometimes, counseling is sought to seek support, other times the release of emotional burden and stressors. The purpose of counseling intends to improve human beings’ daily life functioning.
The areas that are targeted in counseling may be one of the following: relationships, work- life, health conditions management, academic performance issues, etc. The counseling ranges from peoples’ problems on a minor level to resolving major challenges. This includes (but is not limited to) low mood, issues with time management, handling pain, getting rid of grief, overcoming an accident injury, etc.
Being a trained counseling expert is a role that is not only limited to dealing with the clinical population diagnosed with one or more diseases and disorders. The experts in the field offer supervised training to those who are interested in working as a counselor.
1. History of Counseling as a Career: Why it Matters?
image4.png"Development is not about learning how to counsel
but about becoming the kind of person who can
counsel."
- Dave Mearns
Since human beings came into existence, the individuals, families, and communities are striving to reach innovative ideas that might end their suffering and push them out of their difficult situations. Counseling as a reciprocal phenomenon originated to cater to the services wherever social life is breathing. The universe is itself social and the interaction is carried out all the time between all those who are part of this whole. From generation to generations, the habit of sharing problems and attaining advice is the value of social groups.
This is similar to feeding the survival of each other. Human beings are known as social animals. This means they do need certain socialization, support, help, advice, and guidance to live a healthy life. Overall, counseling is one of the lifestyles that binds human beings’ body, mind, and soul into integrity. This is not only associated with someone’s mental health but the way of living, way of thinking, way of feeling, way of acting, and way of believing. The very first element of the human entity that becomes flexible and changes during the counseling process is the belief system.
Philosophers who gave birth to the subject of psychology were well aware of the importance of skills that saves humanity from self-destructive thoughts. Plato and Socrates brought up the habit of questioning for clarity of the human mind and awareness. This founded the prevention of health issues (physical and mental) and the promotion of a healthy life.
Nearly 70 years ago from today, when the industrial revolution arose, modern world physicians enhanced the utility of spreading education about psychiatric illnesses and their treatment experts. Then, the practice of healing shifted from spiritual healers to researchers and medical practitioners for the welfare of human beings. The development of mental asylums, hospitals, and other public care services was seen. Today, millions of adults, children, teens, and the elderly have experienced a mental health issue worldwide.
The knowledge has flown to the legal and criminal justice systems, improving the effectiveness of almost all professionals regardless of the field they are working in.
Examples are seen in the need for counseling among doctors, students, teachers, fire busters, businessmen, social workers, diagnostic facilities, and other medical health providers/centers. One of the most common problems we can name among all peoplewhoneedcounselingis‘burnoutmanagement’. This elaborates the scope of counseling as a career choice for someone who has accumulated a lot of compassion, courage, and