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Skills for Effective Counseling: A Faith-Based Integration is unavailable, but you can change that!

Anyone in a helping profession—including professional counselors, spiritual directors, pastoral counselors, chaplains and others—needs to develop effective communication skills. But learning these skills is like learning a new language: it takes time and practice to communicate effectively, and lack of practice can lead to the loss of one’s ability to use this new language. Suitable for both...

and honesty, and then moves into a place of greater self-reflection and willingness to allow the Holy Spirit to use others to speak into areas that may need to be changed. . Input from others is the next step in cultivating self-awareness. It requires a level of vulnerability and teachability that can be risky, but it is essential to the development of self-as-instrument. As you continue on in your journey of becoming a counselor, be intentional in seeking out people whom
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