Returning from counselling sessions with 2 clients I felt rather drained. The head felt tight. To find some relief I turned to my laptop and instinctively pulled up my equity portfolio. I believe I need to work the left brain to balance the exhausted right brain.
Indeed a counselling session calls for a lot of intuition and creativity ie. working the intuitive right hemisphere of the brain. I have a hunch I use quite a fair bit of intuition in several ways during a counselling session. For example in assessing why a client reacts in a certain way in a given situation and how to draw a client to see their blind spot. I also think it is my right hemisphere brain that absorbs the body language and tone of voice and then helps me speak in a manner that connects with the client. At times I am amazed how suddenly a creative idea pops up in my mind which furthers the therapeutic process. Often the strategies I have planned to apply using my thinking mind are thrown out the window as the client presents new concerns or change in attitude/behaviour. To me counselling is more of an art though supported by science based psychological theories and evidenced based intervention practices. However I often feel unsure of my intuitive strategies when they do not fall into well recognised techniques/practices.
The fact that I pulled out my equity portfolio file instinctively as a source of relaxation could well signal that I have taxed my intuitive mind and needs some rational thinking to derive a mind equilibrium.
"There is an art to science, and science in art; the two are not enemies but different aspects of the whole"- Isaac Asimov
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