{"id":5684,"date":"2015-04-21T10:30:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T14:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccpa.scottbuckingham.ca\/blog\/?p=4001"},"modified":"2015-04-21T10:30:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T14:30:45","slug":"the-unintended-benefits-of-a-counselling-degree-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/the-unintended-benefits-of-a-counselling-degree-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unintended Benefits of a Counselling Degree – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a prospective counsellor, you may be asking yourself \u201cWhy should I do a degree in Counselling?\u201d For those of us that have a formal background in the field, the answers are self-evident and myriad. For me personally, my Masters in Counselling out of Gonzaga University was one of the most powerful learning experiences of my life. And it wasn\u2019t about the \u201ccounselling\u201d theories, practice, etc. It was about \u201cme\u201d<\/p>\n

That is, the two years that I spent learning and studying and practicing and writing didn\u2019t so much help me to become a counsellor or develop my skills as a practitioner as it was about me simply becoming a better person, developing my interpersonal skills and expanding my introspective analysis and intrapersonal acumen.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>I had no idea that this would be a by-product of my time, effort and money. (Isn\u2019t serendipity wonderful?) I fully expected that I would gain a background in psychology and \u00a0psychotherapy and develop skills that would help me to help others. What I didn\u2019t expect was how intimate I would become with those aspects of my personality that were, how shall I put it, \u201cless than satisfactory\u201d. I thought I had people skills! I actually didn\u2019t! It was a very humbling realization. I thought I was a good listener. I was in fact a pretty good talker. I thought I was doing a Masters in Counselling to get job skills. What I found was that I needed to work on my people skills. This was incredibly important, life-changing information for me to have as a 30-year-old \u201cprofessional.\u201d (At that point, I was 5 years into a career as a professional educator.)<\/p>\n

So, \u201cWhy should you do a degree in Counselling?\u201d Do it for yourself! You will become a better person. You will develop better interpersonal skills. You will develop a better understanding of who you are, what makes you \u201ctick\u201d and the ability to step back, analyze your feelings and behaviours and, ultimately, make better choices. These choices are fundamental to living a fulfilled, satisfying life. You will like yourself more and the people around you will like you more. You will establish and maintain better, more fulfilling relationships because you will have a better understanding of yourself. And really, how can any of us expect to have better relationships with others if we haven\u2019t developed that most important of relationships? With ourselves?<\/p>\n

In Part Two of this Blog I will explore the unintended benefits of having a counselling degree in my day-to-day work life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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