COUNSELLING
PRACTITIONERS’
ROUND TABLE
IAC Malta Conference 2016
Counselling - A Means of
Bridging Differences
COUNSELLING
PRACTITIONERS’
ROUND TABLE
Experiencing Hope: The benefits
of embracing hope in personal
and professional contexts
INJECTING HOPE AND REVEALING
POSSIBILITY: SETTING THE STAGE FOR A
HOPE-FILLED COUNSELING RELATIONSHIP
FROM THE FIRST SESSION
Dr. Nate Perron, PhD, LCPC, NCC, ACS
Northwestern University
Online Masters in Counseling program,
IMAGES OF HOPE
“An anchor for
the soul, firm
and secure”
Dirt and life
The counseling
relationship
STRUCTURING OUR INITIAL SESSION WITH A FRAMEWORK OF
HOPE PROVIDES OPPORTUNITIES FOR GROWTH AND HEALING
Hope in the presenting
problem
Hope in one’s history
Hope in the present
Hope in the future
Hope in the counseling
process
• Hope emerges from an empathic, genuine, and supportive
presence
• recognizing glimmers of hope that highlight current
resiliency; recognizing adaptive ways of managing
symptoms and problems
• current development of presenting problems; current
resources and strengths available but possibly minimized
• establishing meaningful treatment goals, restoring a hopeful
outlook on the future, presenting evidence-based tools that
foster hope—this has been tackled before
• reminding them they remain present in the fight, revising
skills and concepts that target new problems, reviewing
progress on goals, ending interactions with hope
HOLISTIC HEALTH AND HOPE
Physical
Spiritual
Social
Emotional
Mental