After having the opportunity to be able to go back to listen my first session with my client I was able to notice that there were a lot of things I could of have dome better. Even though this session was very short, due to the fact that it was out first session and my client had lunch during the time we were recording this session. I know there are many things I could of have dome different. For example, something that I didn’t like about this session was the fact that the client provided me a lot of important information which it could of have been conducted to a strong session, and I saw myself asking many basic questions such as “why do believe this, or why do you thinks this happen” and asking the same things over and ove , instead of having a deep exploration to these concerns my client was having. In terms of my own professional development, what have I learned from reviewing this session is that I attempt to ask a lot of questioning but mostly opening question. For that reason, that I attempt to ask a lot of question I found myself asking more than one question at the same time. For instance, this is something that I defenetely need to work on, because it was hard for my client to answer all of them instead; my client seemed to only respond to my last question. …show more content…
Even though for this session I attempt to ask a lot of question, I was able to observe that listening skill is one of my strengths for conducting counseling sessions. Every time I used the microskill of listening I was able to gather a lot of information from my client. Even though I know I need to keep in mind that every client is different and maybe for this particular client the microskill of listening works better because it helped me to gather a lot of information rather than any other microskill. I cannot assume that the microskill of listening is going to be helpful for every single