Presenting Issues: Natasha is a student who went overseas to study alone. As she is alone in a foreign country, she has no friends and often feels alone. While she was overseas, she met a male friend whom showed her the care and concern that she needed. Thus, she got into a relationship with him. Their relationship were running smoothly but the guy started persuading her for sex and Natasha feels pressurized by it. Natasha is afraid of losing him and is very troubled by this. Goal: Natasha wants to have a serious talk with her boyfriend. She wants her boyfriend to know that while she values their relationship, she is not ready to take their relationship to the level of physical intimacy yet. Natasha feels that sex is sacred and valuable, …show more content…
I chose to use this therapy skill as I felt that instead of letting Natasha focus on the problem of her boyfriend constantly wanting to bring their relationship to the level of physical intimacy, it might be better to solve the problem of her boyfriend always leading their conversation first. Thus, the approach of solution-focused counseling was chosen since it has the ability to involve the client to start a conversation on how they are able to change things to resolve their problem. (Lee. M.Y, 2013) I also used the task assignment skill as I felt that since it is very solution-based, it can help Natasha to solve her problem in a direct and efficient manner. Also, as Natasha’s own personal goal was to have a serious conversation with her boyfriend, I gave her the task of pretending that her boyfriend was there to let her muster up the courage she required to talk to him and also better prepare her for that situation. A solution based counseling skill is also more suitable than a insight based counseling skill since skills like existential counselling or psychoanalytic counseling would not work here, as Natasha already has her own insight on how she wants her problem to be