Wherever we are working as counsellors, we will need to discover why it is that a client is looking for counselling at this point in their lives, and consider whether we can offer what they need. In practical and experiential ways, we will explore how to provide a safe and welcoming environment within which we, and the client, can make a decision. 

We will explore the ways in which we can come to an appropriate decision, and then look at how we conduct the counselling assessment.

This workshop will give participants the opportunity to explore themselves as counsellors, and the issues involved, by bringing their own unique work and life experiences to the discussions and practical exercises and activities.

Assessment is so often the exciting and necessary start to a counselling relationship, and deserves due focus.

Joy Oakley has a degree in Psychology, and a Diploma in Integrative Counselling (Person-Centred, TA & Gestalt).  She works as a Hospice Counsellor, and is a tutor on the Foundation Degree in Person-Centred Counselling at Sussex Downs College, and previously on the Diploma course at Wealden College.  She works privately as a counsellor, and as a supervisor for individuals and organisations. She runs workshops including: Inspiration & Intuition, Anger, Facing our own Death, Stress Management, Creative Methods, Sand tray Work.