I work in advertising. Because I was too tired to work overtime, I began to consider changing careers very early. After many workshops, I took the national psychological counselor's certificate (the exam has been cancelled at present). Later, I found a good teacher to study for five or six years and received some consulting cases.

Let me share with you some different types of psychological counselors I met in my study:

1. Senior consultant graduated from class.

My teacher majored in computer as an undergraduate, and my graduate student turned to psychology. She has worked for more than 20 years. It turns out that she is a master in the career industry, specializing in training college teachers and teaching them how to make career planning for college students (there are many dry goods courses, and I miss many knowledge points when I am distracted). Later, I started my own business as a studio, and I have done career and psychological counseling. One-hour consultation fee 1500+, now I am working as a studio, taking students and doing some free live questions and answers.

consulting room

Cut youth

Most of my classmates are slash youths, including teachers and directors in universities, middle schools, primary schools and kindergartens, as well as those engaged in insurance, internet and science and technology. These people come to class not to practice, but to learn some knowledge and apply it to their own work, such as how to deal with resignation anxiety, weariness of learning, internet addiction and adolescent rebellion, how to deal with old professionals and bosses in the workplace, how to manage teams and how to make personal career plans. The teacher will teach some practical methods, and may go to work to practice the next day, and then exchange the results with you.

3.？ A consultant who changed careers halfway.

The other part is that I want to change careers. See if I have the potential to be a psychological counselor, learn professional knowledge and deal with my own problems, such as family background, intimate relationship, subconscious exploration and so on. Because I am preparing for graduate students majoring in psychology, I have studied basic subjects such as general psychology, personality psychology and experimental psychology, and also learned more practical consulting skills in class.

4.？ Consultants in related industries

Others are engaged in related industries, such as adolescent psychology, career planning, volunteering for the college entrance examination, sand table games, etc. When they come here, they will study. Because teachers also go out for further study every year, learn the latest workshops, such as dance therapy, and then teach us after learning.

5.？ Relationship between body and mind

In particular, the consultant turned out to be a sleeper of body and mind/astrolabe/Cui. For example, he can communicate with cats and dogs with photos, make akashi records and study five lines of gossip.

6.？ Group consultation, etc

There is also a kind of group counseling, such as pulling a group of rich and idle "sick" people to villas in the suburbs of Beijing and taking them to meditate. Or train some kind of counseling, such as family planning.

I study integration, that is, I can learn mainstream consulting schools and corresponding technologies. The advantage is that I can quickly establish a good consulting relationship with a more suitable consulting method for TA according to the different problems and consulting preferences of visitors.

Partial learning framework

I remember the first formal consultation case. The visitor is a college student who has just entered the workplace. Faced with great performance pressure, after working overtime for a week, she suddenly collapsed in the company, cried her eyes out, and even fainted for a time, which frightened her colleagues and leaders. She was particularly depressed in the consulting room. On the one hand, she felt "ashamed" and worried about her physical and mental state. On the other hand, she can't quit this well-paid job easily.

She said she didn't think counseling was useful. The counselor just listens and occasionally asks a sentence or two, but only after she really experienced it did she know that the seemingly casual words of the counselor would make her "moved" and she could find the key point of the problem from the layers of fog. Although she didn't get direct advice, she knew what to do the moment she walked out of the consulting room.

Lifelong learning

I'm glad to get such feedback from the first consultation. I feel that I have found the value of "helping others and helping myself" as a consultant, and I have strengthened my heart to continue learning. I hope to be a better psychological counselor in the future.