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Ethical Service Promotion
I networked with potential referral points and continue to find ways to connect with other people and entities that are like minded and want to provide a secure, safe, inclusive, accessible, ethical, intersectional and diverse community that simply cares for the wellbeing of other human beings at a time when the most powerful elements of our world and communities serve themselves and their own interests first, at the expense of the most vulnerable who need it most.
I don’t have all the answers when it comes to supporting people experiencing difficulty in their lives, but that’s the point of my client lead and person centered practice. I know the answers come from within and my job is to help my clients find their own. Their own solutions, understanding, meaning and their own voice.
Cultural Awareness
I find that a Culturally centered approach to Counselling enriches the therapeutic alliance in a way that builds trust, resonance, communication and connection like nothing else. It can encompass so much and facilitates empathy and co-regulation, that enriches humility and transformation beautifully.
Culture is not just what colour your skin may be or what country you come from. It is that, but it is so much more. The things that bind people to community and belonging is hugely influential to people’s wellbeing, but so is their capacity to individuate and express their autonomy and self-determination, even when guided and strongly linked to a cultural collective.
Transference and Counter-transference
Barriers to the client/Counsellor alliance can emerge at any time and this is a healthy and natural consequence of any kind of therapy. These barriers are opportunities that present proverbial forks in the road, needing examination, analysis and decision-making to choose a direction. Transference and Counter-transference are such common barriers.
Weaponisation: What is it?
Weaponisation is a verb and attached to that behaviour is an intention. I think key to emotional and mental health is understanding the difference between when a behaviour is happening subconsciously and when it is being enacted deliberately and to what end. A subconscious act of weaponisation might be an oversight, it could also be a result of miscommunication or misinterpretation. But when something is being knowingly clouded, obscured, manipulated or expressed incompletely, with the end goal being a desired outcome that benefits one party over an other, this can be harmful. We should all be looking in the mirror as often as possible, careful you don’t fall in!