After counseling for almost a decade, I have met quite a diverse group of people. In honesty, it is exciting to meet others that are quite different from me. God has such creativity in making so many different combinations of personalities and abilities. These differences have helped me to be flexible and be a good learner.
One of my earlier challenges was helping counsel a man who had low reading comprehension skills. This was outside of my wheelhouse of experience. I have been blessed to have a great education and receive collegiate instruction. Yet, not everyone has the same level of educational instruction that I have received. I remember listening to him read verses in the Bible. He struggled with common words that a high school education could handle. I remember thinking, what am I going to do? I started to wonder what would counseling look like. Over time, I have been able to develop an approach and resources to love counselees who struggle with reading comprehension.
Get to Know Your Counselee
The first thing I typically do in session one is tell a little about myself, if I do not know them well. Many times, new counselees are nervous,
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