I don’t usually enjoy taking my car to see a car mechanic. I honestly wish that my car would just work. What is even more difficult for me to handle is when the car mechanic tells me that they do not have the parts for my car, and it will take several days to get them in. At that moment, I am tempted to become impatient. I want it to work and I want it to be fixed now.
This can happen in counseling as well—both for the counselee and the counselor.
Impatience can be normal for a counselee. The counselee comes to see you about their problem and they want you to fix it—now! Likewise, as counselors, we can tend to view counseling like a car problem to be fixed. While we need to be wise about when to end counseling (especially if there is a waiting list for other counselees), we want to avoid short-circuiting the counseling process by impatiently ending counseling too soon.
How can we be patient and help our counselees to be patient?
How to Help an Impatient Counselee
It can be difficult to counsel someone who is impatient and wants you to fix their
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