Mock counselling session number 1- Mena Practical

hi Annabelle welcome hi how are you good

I've been looking forward to meeting you

did you find the place okay yes I did I

was not very few of his area but I did

find it and so I was wondering if you

got a chance to read and sign the

paperwork the contract that you would

give any reception yes I do

yeah okay excellent so there's a the

topic of confidentiality but I just

wanted to go through with you to make

sure that you do have a good

understanding of how that works so this

is a safe space counseling is a safe

place for you to be able to talk about

your concerns and how you're feeling

about certain things so everything that

we do talk about is kept confidential

between your night however there are

limitations to confidentiality and these

are if I feel that in stage you're at

risk of harm to yourself or to other

people I have to breach confidentiality

if my case notes are subpoenaed by court

for any reason I have to breach

confidentiality and also there there may

be times where I have to discuss some of

the things that we talked about with my

supervisor however if that does come up

I will make sure that you do remain

anonymous in that situation with the

supervisor so is that okay

do you have any questions okay and if at

any stage any of these situations where

I do have to breach confidentiality come

up I will discuss them with you first

okay okay so another thing that I wanted

to make clear as well as that we have

weekly sessions with clients as well so

sometimes they can change to monthly

depending on our sessions together and

they're free for the first six sessions

covered under Medicare and anything

after that is $70 is that okay give it

that's fine

excellent so you can cancel at any time

you count sins not for you and if you

can't make it to one of the sessions we

do require 24 hours notice okay don't

excellent

so have you been to counseling before

never no this is my first time a little

bit nervous I I've never really been to

anything like this and I'm not sure what

to expect okay

yeah and it's quite quite more to feel a

little bit nervous especially when

you're trying counseling for the first

time so we will look at working together

and hopefully building our relationship

so that you can feel a bit more

comfortable in talking about some of the

things that that are concerning you so

it's a collaborative approach and we

work together towards some of your

goggles

what areas that might be concerning you

as well anything else in the contract

that you wanted to clarification or you

weren't actually yes I was reading the

contractor there's a bit about referrals

which I wasn't quite sure what that

meant and what it actually referred to

so referrals are quite common in

counseling as well so if at any stage we

feel that both you and I feel that you

may need support from external services

or you may need to be referred to a

specialist service then we discuss that

option together and with your consent

I will then refer you to that

specialized services okay

yeah and referrals can work at any stage

so it could be early in the counseling

could be towards the middle it'll be

them at the end so excellent now going

back to your expectations is there

anything else that you wanted to discuss

or clarify around what you expect for me

or for yourself no I just understand

that I tell you our problems and you'll

have reflux oops I'll be there today I'm

hoping for yes yes some people do come

to counseling expecting the counselor to

know you know to have all the solutions

and have the magic wand to make

everybody's problems go away but

unfortunately we don't have that that

type of resources all that magic wand to

make everything just disappear so it

would be a be a hard a lot of hard work

for both of us but together we'll work

towards finding options and best

possible solutions for your problems so

another one has brought you to

counseling

so I've been in a relationship with some

brief about six months um I wanted us to

move forward with our relationship and I

get married and he he's got on the same

page as me that's causing a lot of

tension and then in addition to that my

mother is very unwell um so I had a lot

things to deal with that home with her

as well and then my boss is putting a

lot of pressure on me to deliver

everything on time and so I'm just

having some trouble juggling everything

at the moment yeah yeah and I can see

that all of these combined making you

feel quite overwhelmed

oh very and it's just really there are

some times when I just come home and I

have to deal with my mother and I have

to deal with my relationship and then I

have to go to work for this dinner I'm

having trouble with that and it just

makes me really upset okay yeah

and I'm wondering at i how how long have

you been dealing with all these issues

oh it's probably roundup in the last

three months but I've been in the in my

relationship for six months my mom's

been sick the last three four months so

it's not that new but it's it's now

seeming to get worse so yeah and so how

have you been coping so far with all of

these these pressures not very well but

yeah I just take it day by day and yeah

communications a bit of a difficult one

like I said this is my first time doing

counseling and don't really have anyone

else I can turn to so yeah it's very

hard yeah I do understand that it is

very hard to seek support in in such

personal issues but that's what we're

here for and that's what we're hoping

that we can do with with this session as

well so given that decisions very

different to the other ones I just

wanted to know you told me that you

experiencing some concerns with your

partner because you want to move forward

and he's not in the same

this is you and your mother's quite sick

and you're looking after her as well so

that's an area of concern for you and

then you have some pressures with work

so I'm just wondering if we could

prioritize any of those concerns what

would the biggest concern um whoa

probably dealing with my mother and my

relationship were probably quite before

my mother's was a little pressure on me

to get married office issues not well so

um you know she wants to see her family

happy here you're dealing with that

situation probably number-one thing for

me at the moment and the work thing I

can deal with because I try not to be

work hard but obviously that to be hard

to you so when you say dealing with that

concern do you mean working the

relationship with your mother or the

relationship with your partner probably

with my partner first because yeah I

feel like I'm putting a lot of pressure

on him because of what's happening with

my mother yeah okay so what we we can do

is if it's okay if you focus on that

area first and we'll look at all the

areas that are overwhelming you that we

can start by working on that that issue

first if that's okay yeah yep excellent

so we only have a couple more minutes

before the session ends and I was

wondering if you had any other questions

before we um we go and sign the contract

and no I just maybe in terms of the

number of counseling sessions I'll need

I know you said that the first six are

free but obviously money is a bit of a

factor as well so what happens if I have

to go over the six sessions yeah I want

to apologize I said

also go and sign the contract but you

already signed it but so if you go over

the six sessions you won't be seventy

dollars after for each session and you

can like I said you can continue as long

as you need to so it's really difficult

to find a time for every single person

and have a set time so we like to see

how it goes and together we can work out

what the best timeframe is for for

yourself okay so if you don't have any

other questions we can book another time

in next week for you definitely

please so the do I stick to exception

about yeah well I'll come out with you

and we can sort that out great thank you

okay it was lovely meeting you thank you

so much for um for opening up and having

that chat with me and we'll focus on the

first topic of you and your partner okay

thank you it's very much thank you