105: Counseling Skills – 15 hours

Learn to provide a nonjudgmental, non-threatening environment for clients, so that they can be more successful in solving their problems.  Learn basic counseling techniques including attending behaviors, reflective and active listening, paraphrasing, building rapport, open- and closed-ended questions, specificity and probing questions, expressing empathy, gathering information, body language, ‘I’ messages, blind spots, transference, countertransference, summarizing, suicide risk factors and assessments.  This course is included in the Hypnotherapist Certification Program.