In 2017 I started a thread on Mumsnet called 'counsellors who are no good at their jobs'. The conversation that was started was very revealing. Bad experiences with counsellors are common. People are being harmed. Something needs to be done about it.
It is only to be expected that occasionally there will be a serious abuser. I'm not talking about the occasional serious abuser though. A good proportion of counsellors - possibly even a majority - don't understand how to do their jobs properly. These people need to be weeded out at the training stage. They should be told that they are unsuitable to be counsellors and stopped. This isn't happening.
The first rule of counselling is that the counsellor should not be judgmental. Yet so many are. They can't resist the temptation.
The next post in this blog is the Mumsnet thread that I started, I used the username Kim666.
The one after is a web page that I wrote about my own experience of depression, counselling and therapy. I put it on the internet years ago and it is still there somewhere.
The one after is quoting from the book 'Person-Centred Counselling in Action' by Dave Mearns and Brian Thorne. A counsellor is mean to her client but is described as merely inexperienced when her behaviour is totally unacceptable.
The one after is quoting from the book 'Collision with the Infinite' by Suzanne Segal. The book is mostly about spirituality but has some very interesting things to say about counselling and therapy.
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