This document provides an overview of counseling, including its objectives, principles, and fundamentals. It defines counseling as an interactive process that leads to behavioral or emotional changes through a relationship between counselor and client. It discusses the principles of acceptance, permissiveness, and confidentiality in counseling. It provides dos and don'ts for counselors, such as keeping a clean environment, making the client comfortable, understanding their psychology, and avoiding personal biases. Fundamentals include guiding clients to their own solutions, providing direction, protecting their feelings, using humor, self-disclosure, being open-minded and believing clients are doing their best.