As
a counsellor, your ultimate goal is to help your client. Working
towards this starts even before your actual counselling sessions–upon
drafting the
counselling contract.
Early
counselling sessions will entail obtaining a lot of information.
There will be many details that will be difficult to remember,
especially because the client is likely to be under emotional
distress. Nonetheless, you need to make sure that the details are
clear. You’ll still need to discuss them verbally, but this won’t
be enough. That’s where the contract comes in.
