Core counseling skills include active listening techniques like attending, using silence, reflecting, clarifying with open-ended questions, focusing on key issues, building rapport, summarizing, and addressing immediate feelings in the session. These skills help counselors give clients their full attention, understand the client's perspective, and make the client feel heard and valued.

1. CORE
COUSELING
SKILLS

2. Core Counseling Skills
Core listening skills are
basic counseling skills,or
practiced techniques, that
help the counsellor to
empathetically listen to
the speaker.

3. 1.ATTENDING
Attending in counseling means being in the company of someone
else and giving that person your full attention, to what they are
saying or doing,valuing them as worthy individuals.

4. 2.SILENCE
Silence in counseling
gives the client control
of the content, pace
and objectives.

5. 3.REFLECTING AND PARAPHRASING
Reflecting in counseling
is part of the art of
listening. It is making sure
that the client
their story is
knows
being
listened to.

6. 4.CLARIFYING AND THE
USE OF QUESTIONS
Questions in counseling
are classed as a basic
skills. The counsellor uses
open questions to clarify
his or her understanding
of what the client is
feeling.

7. 5.FOCUSING
Focusing
involves
decisions
in counseling
making
about what
issues the client wants
to deal with.

8. 6.BUILDING RAPPORT
Building rapport with
clients in counseling is
important, whatever
model of counseling the
counsellor is working
with.

9. 7.SUMMARISING
Summaries in counseling
are longer paraphrase.
They condense or
crystalized the essence
of what the client is
saying and feeling.

10. 8.Immediacy
Using immediacy means that
the therapist reveals how they
themselves are feeling in
response to the client.

11. Thank you for
listening!