What kind of profession is a counselor?
Previously, Simple Psychology solicited everyone's original intention to choose to become a counselor, and the reasons made us deeply moved:
In order to explore the infinite possibilities of human nature, not to let others experience the pain they once had, and to see the courage to try to live in all kinds of desperate predicaments, etc......
From fascinated by human nature, to a heartfelt love for this profession, to a concern for suffering...... The profession of a counselor offers the possibility of a deep dialogue between two souls that is both awe-inspiring and fascinating.
As a special profession, psychological counseling not only requires professional knowledge and ability related to the general profession, but also needs to have special requirements other than professional quality in the general sense, that is: what kind of person the counselor is, the maturity and perfection of his personality, the ability of self-awareness and growth, and the level and realm he has reached.
Because, "in the counseling process, the most meaningful resource that the counselor can bring into the counseling relationship is himself."
Cavinner emphasized that effective counseling relies more on the personality traits of the counselor than on the counselor's knowledge and skills. He believes that knowledge and skills are not unimportant, but because education is difficult to change those basic personality traits of people.
What kind of person is engaged in psychological counseling is more important than what kind of counseling theories and methods must be mastered to engage in psychological counseling.
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What personality traits are better suited to become a counselor?
American scholar Gay believes that an effective counselor must have the following personality characteristics:
(1) Have a strong interest in people, be curious and like to explore;
(2) Ability to listen;
(3) Good communicator and like to communicate with others;
(4) Empathy, good at understanding others, putting yourself in their shoes;
(5) Strong emotional insight and good at dealing with various emotional problems;
(6) Introspection, having a clear understanding of one's own abilities, and being good at grasping oneself in the process of psychological counseling;
(7) tolerant, with the ability to control one's own grievances;
(8) Humor, you can discover the positive and interesting side of life.
If you have some of these qualities, then congratulations, you have the innate qualities to become a psychological counselor, but these qualities alone are not enough to achieve the goal of helping others, if you want to become an effective counselor, the formation and improvement of its personality traits can not only be through the professional knowledge and vocational skills training of psychological counseling, as well as the accumulation of counselor's work experience, but also rely on a very important way and channel, which is the personal growth of psychological counselors.
This is an indispensable process for becoming an effective counselor, and it is also a lifelong and sustainable personal development topic for an effective counselor.
As Rogers summed up his experience in therapy, "My ability to create a relationship that fosters the independent growth of others depends on the degree of my own personal growth," and "If I want to foster the growth of others who are related to me, I have to grow myself." ”
In order to help you get closer to the helping nature of "psychological counselor", understand the psychological counseling industry in an all-round way, and judge whether you are suitable to become a counselor, Simple Psychology Uni has developed the "Seed Psychological Counselor Introductory Course", inviting 6 psychological counselors with decades of clinical counseling experience at home and abroad, after continuous polishing, through 6 months to build a growth path from beginner to initial practice:
✅ Build a multi-dimensional growth map ✅ for those who expect personal growth, help those who are willing to change careers establish cognition and clear goals ✅, and let prospective practitioners have a more systematic growth path
We hope that the Seed course will be like a seed, so that more people who are interested in the psychological counseling industry can gain insight and gain more professional growth at less cost.
The original price is 3,520 yuan, and the price of the big promotion is 3,170 yuan, plus the "Freud and His Successors" reading club
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Three-dimensional growth path, compulsory for entry
Dimension 1: Authoritative mentor guidance to build professional confidence
In "The Little Prince", the little prince met his good friend Fox, who is also a teacher and friend in his life, and it is precisely because of the fox's guidance that he knows that his rose is different from the thousands of flowers in the garden, although the appearance is the same, but his roses are unique in the world, and it is also the teacher of the fox that taught the little prince to look at the world with his heart in order to see different things.
Compared with other industries, the psychological counseling industry is more sensitive to capturing people's innermost emotions. Therefore, it is more necessary to have psychological counselors with humanistic care and continuous clinical experience to guide the introduction, because they have a better understanding of the difficulties of novice counselors in the initial growth and can patiently give targeted guidance and answers.
In the [SEED course], which has been carried out for more than 40 periods, we have formulated strict selection criteria for the selection of instructors:
✅ The average number of years of psychological counseling work is not less than 10 years; ✅ The cumulative number of consulting hours is not less than 3,000 hours; ✅ The average tutor team has a master's degree or above; ✅ Must have received professional training in psychology from an internationally accredited profession; ✅ Highly respected and loved by students.
This is also one of the highlights of the course, 6 teachers with the unique warmth and sincerity of psychological counselors, leading you from theory to practice, leading you into the door of psychological counseling, taking you to understand the current situation of the psychological counseling industry in an all-round way, understanding the work content and required work ability of counselors, and knowing how you can grow into a psychological counselor.
Among the thousands of reviews of the Seed course, the students praised the teachers for their clear logic, experience, vivid and interesting teachings, strong energy, and great personality.
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Dimension 2: Three modules to build a complete psychological counseling map
In the course of learning for half a year, the SEED course arranges 7 compulsory modules and 280 essential courses. The system includes the basic content of individual developmental psychology, psychological school theory, clinical psychological problems, application of counseling techniques, counseling ethics and law, etc.
The basics of entering the industry
【129 min】Introduction to Psychological Counseling: Understanding Professional Needs and Functions;【121 min】The Growth Path of Psychological Counselor: Understanding the History, Current Situation, Prospect and Growth Path of the Industry;【103 mins】Ethics and Law of Psychological Counseling: Understanding the Industry Ethics and Norms that Must Be Observed;
Fundamentals of Psychology
【636 min】Psychology of Individual Development - Understand the psychological characteristics and changes of individuals at different stages of their life, covering infancy (0-2 years old), early childhood (2-6 years old), elementary school (6-11 years old), adolescence (11-18 years old), early adulthood (18-40 years old), middle age (40-65 years old), old age (65 years old and above), death, dying and loss;
【865 min】Clinical Manifestations of Common Psychological Disorders: Understand the classification, causes, theories, and intervention methods of common psychological disorders, including abnormal psychology (72 mins), schizophrenia (79 mins), mood disorders (96 mins), anxiety disorders (77 mins), obsessive-compulsive and trauma-related disorders (91 mins), eating disorders and substance use disorders (90 mins), sleep disorders, sexual and gender-related disorders (104 mins), somatic symptom disorders and dissociative disorders (65 mins), Childhood Disorders, Old Age and Neurocognitive Disorders(79 min), Personality Disorders(117 min)
Consulting Technology Basics
【1850 mins】Basic Theory of Psychological Counseling: Understand the theories and techniques of 7 major schools of psychology, including psychoanalytic/dynamic orientation (225 minutes), Adlerian therapy school (187 minutes), humanistic school (189 minutes), existentialist school (186 minutes), Gestalt (gestalt) psychotherapy (201 minutes), behavioral therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy (318 minutes), postmodern orientation & family therapy (256 minutes), Trends in the Integration of Psychological Counseling Theory and Practice (209 min.)
【1040 mins】Basic Helping Skills in Psychological Counseling - Learn the working principles and communication skills of the whole process of helping others;
To quote a self-media blogger's feelings after trying out the course:
I thought that the SEED course was similar to a psychology 101 undergraduate introductory course, using video lessons to introduce some basic concepts and principles, and I could learn almost in a month of accelerated learning, but I didn't expect that this course was so hardcore, I couldn't be fooled at all, I learned it every day for two months and didn't finish it.
Later, the teacher who saw the course said that after this course, it was equivalent to covering the theoretical knowledge that a psychology graduate major needs to learn, and he understood it. It's really detailed and comprehensive!
It shows how dry and hardcore the [Seed Psychological Counselor Introductory Course] is!
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It is no exaggeration to say that the road to becoming a counselor is tortuous and full of thorns, especially for 0-1 year olds.
Blind, fragmented learning a large number of courses, time and money investment is huge, the point is that there is no return, and there is still no access to the real consulting scene.
There are also people who have finished their studies and still have not had the opportunity to use counseling technology, do not know how to officially embark on the road of consulting, and have been spinning in circles, investing in the early stage.
The SEED course combines the international authoritative counselor training model to create an exclusive advanced learning plan for psychological counselors aged 0-1:
For those who want to continue their studies and have already made it clear that they want to become a psychological counselor, they can upgrade to the SEED Advanced Counselor Training Program, or they can continue to sign up for a hotline internship.
And the beginning of it all is the "Gold Medal Seed Course"!
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The original price is 3,520 yuan, and the price of the big promotion is 3,170 yuan, plus the "Freud and His Successors" reading club
Based on the experience of previous students, some people have used this course to clarify the issues of origin that are bothering them, examine the motivations that may interfere with them, and find the right way to deal with them.
"I have been troubled by the negative impact of the original family, I have graduated from college and returned home with small businesses, concepts, and cognitions, all of which are different, and I feel that my family has been in a negative emotional state, and my family feels that I have been pointing out your shortcomings for your good, and I have been in a state of negative feedback for more than 10 years, and I have come out again, and my family has been tying me up with money and filial piety, and I can't stand up independently, people are in negative emotions, and their control is very weak, so it's worse, numb! I want to study psychology to help myself, and I learned in the chapter that becoming a psychological counselor requires a good relationship between superiors and subordinates, and it is better to really solve problems or counsel, and in the past cognition, the first thing to become a psychological counselor is self-help!"
Some people let go of the mindset of judgment in the past, and in their own work, the motivation to understand and help others more deeply has risen.
"I want to do my best to explore and help those who have criminal tendencies. I'm like a kid standing in the corner of a psychology window, seeing something I like, but I can't touch it through the glass. Therefore, my motivation for working in the profession is self-exploration and altruism. ”
There are also people who realize that it is difficult to understand and accept negative emotions in the process of helping others in the past, and the moment they let go of the "right and wrong" standard, they gain true empathy for themselves and others.
"In the past, when I listened to my friends' distress, it was actually a kind of cry for help from the outside world, and when I felt their distress in the same way, I chose to deny these negative emotions first, I thought that the only thing I could do was to promote the power of reason and force them to forget the emotions that "should not have arisen". I suddenly realized that I had been a listener and wanted to help my friends out of their predicament, not to help them, but to use a wooden stick to try to drive them out of there when it was clear that it was snowy, but how could someone who could really walk be trapped here?"
This course not only establishes a systematic theoretical system, but also listens to consultants who have been in the industry for more than ten years talk about their understanding of "helping others" with their own experience.
"When your visitor comes to you, it's likely to be a bug. As a counselor, what you have to do is not to tell it that you will definitely become a butterfly in the future, what you have to do is to squat down and share its tears and humility as a bug. (From the instructor, consultant Sun Ping.) ）
After completing this course, you will find that a qualified helper is easy and careful - he knows his boundaries clearly, can tolerate uncertainty, and makes every judgment carefully.
and how to maintain sufficient respect and humility in the face of the suffering of others and the complexity of the human heart.
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The supporting services of the system maximize the learning effect 011V1 homework feedback, customized learning feedback
Novice counselors are often prone to a large number of problems in the early stages of learning, such as:
- whether the understanding of the knowledge points is accurate;
- What to do if you don't adapt to the working style of a counselor;
- how ethical dilemmas can be addressed;
- how to solve the problem of low self-confidence;
Addressing these issues in a timely manner is the best way to ensure motivation to learn.
To this end, we are equipped with a professional team of teaching assistants to answer your questions and escort your learning path, so that you can review the past and master the knowledge points in time.
02 Roundtable group learning, grow together with friends
At the beginning of their careers, most novice counselors often choose to give up because they can't tolerate the frustration of being isolated.
At this time, finding a common learning partner on the path of learning may also become an important peer resource for you in your future consulting work.
To this end, the Seed course community will organize a roundtable group every session to build an open and stable communication space, enhance communication between students, and make learning no longer lonely.
03Other benefits
◉ Each course has a bibliography list to expand your ammunition arsenal◉ Join the peer support group, witness each other with your friends, and gradually upgrade your learning ability◉ Share a large number of excellent assignments, refer to multiple angles to check and fill in the gaps, and ensure the all-round mastery and application of knowledge points
6 months, at a lower cost, give yourself a possibility to become a psychological counselor.
《Seed心理咨询师入门课》
6 senior tutors in the industry jointly teach 7 compulsory modules + 280 essential courses + 200 days of ultra-long validity period weekly video + 1v1 homework feedback + teaching assistant Q&A dual-teacher teaching system + exclusive advanced channel