Counselling Micro Skills

Observing counselee’s

behaviors, identifying

themes or patterns in

their lives, recording

pertinent data, and thus

forming tentative and

flexible evaluations

• Analyzing

• Assessing

• Active Listening

Attending to counselee’s

verbal and non-verbal

communication without

judging or evaluating them.

• Active listening

• Goal Setting

• Analyzing

Offering alternative

explanations;

• Goal Setting

• Analyzing

• Interpreting

Demonstrating desirable

behavior through actions,

i.e. positive

communication,

supportive feedback, etc

• Mediating

• Modelling

• Observing

Helping clients resolve

conflict

• Mediating

• Modelling

• Observing

Taking note of what is

happening during

counseling;

Noticing how the client

responds;

Checking energy and

interest levels;

Diagnosing blocks or

• Modelling

• Observing

• Interpreteng

Asking them if they need

anything;

Encouraging clients to

express their negative

emotions

• Observing

• Promote healling

• Promoteng Healling

Describes the counselor’s selection of a response that anticipates the

client’s readiness to benefit from a particular kind of response

• Attending Skills

• Communicating Skills

• Listening Skills

• Leading Skills

Refers to understanding the client’s personal constructs, as the unique set

of thoughts a person uses to process information, give meaning to life

events, order one’s world, explain cause-and-effect relationships, and make

wise decisions.

• Communicating skills

• Listening skills

• Attending skills

• Leading skills

An extremely important dimension of the counselor’s work by hearing

the client accurately, seeing the point of view and feeling the world as

they experience it.

• Listening skills

• Attending skills

• Leading skills

• Communication skills