{"id":5504,"date":"2013-02-23T10:01:32","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T15:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccpa.scottbuckingham.ca\/blog\/?p=2729"},"modified":"2013-02-23T10:01:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T15:01:32","slug":"lets-get-practical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/lets-get-practical\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Get Practical."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Lawrence Murphy and I were co-presenting \u201cTaking Career Counselling Online\u201d at Cannexus13 we asked participants what they wanted to learn in our session.\u00a0 Practical tips and resources was one of the requests. Time management was another.\u00a0 As one person said \u201chow do you manage your time so that what would be an hour in person doesn\u2019t end up as three hours writing?\u201d\u00a0 Good questions.\u00a0 Sounded like a great topic for a blog post to me!<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s some tips for asynchronous text-based counselling.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just as I would for an in-person counselling session I make sure I am not going to be interrupted &#8211; close my office door, unplug the phone,\u00a0 mute the alerts on my laptop, ensure I can\u2019t see incoming emails, put the cat out, etc.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I read through a client\u2019s entire message and then take a few moments to think about what the main issues are and what exercises\/resources\/information I might wish to share with my client.\u00a0 If there are multiple issues I make a determination about what to focus on.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Over time I have compiled a list of useful worksheets\/workbook, articles and other therapeutic tools that I keep in a Client Information file.\u00a0 I have also used these web resources (amongst many others).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getselfhelp.co.uk\/freedownloads2.htm\">http:\/\/www.getselfhelp.co.uk\/freedownloads2.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytools.org\/download-therapy-worksheets.html\/\">http:\/\/www.psychologytools.org\/download-therapy-worksheets.html\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heretohelp.bc.ca\/\">http:\/\/www.heretohelp.bc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.helpguide.org\/\">http:\/\/www.helpguide.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In terms of creating a sense of presence and establishing a working alliance with the client I use descriptive immediacy, emotional bracketing and descriptive imagery (for more details see my blog post from May 30, 2011 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/blog\/?p=502\">http:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/blog\/?p=502<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also spacing and pacing.\u00a0 For example, if I want someone to slow down and take time to absorb what I am saying I might use spaces\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>to<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>slow<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>down<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>pace of reading.<\/p>\n<p>Another thing I do is match [as closely as possible] my language to that of my clients.\u00a0 By that I mean that if they misspell a word I will purposely misspell it as well.\u00a0 It\u2019s subtle but important I think.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want to make my clients feel they are \u2018wrong\u2019 and so I don\u2019t correct their spelling or grammar.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I match their level of language as much as possible &#8211; paying attention to their use of language and sentence structure.\u00a0 Kinda like mirroring our client\u2019s posture in a face-to-face session.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To help me with time management the first thing I do is set a timer!\u00a0 And the more online counselling I do the better I am at managing my time.\u00a0 I don\u2019t always manage to do it within the 50 &#8211; 60 minute range.\u00a0 When I find myself spending more than that I have trained myself to stop and ask the question &#8211; \u201cam I trying to do too much here?\u00a0 What would I be doing differently if this person was actually in my office?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And sometimes I just need to hit send and [gulp] accept that it\u2019s not perfect.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What tips and resources do you have to share?<\/p>\n<p>Dawn M. 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