The first growth is to learn professional psychological knowledge.
Psychology is a science. To be a psychological counselor, you must learn and master the theoretical knowledge about psychological counseling, such as general psychology, developmental psychology, social psychology, educational psychology, psychometrics, counseling psychology, behavioral psychology, cognitive psychology, psychoanalytic psychology, and psychiatry. Only by mastering and understanding this knowledge and having a theoretical background can we face complex and changeable help seekers well and apply this knowledge to solve their psychological problems in practice.
The second kind of growth is personal inner growth.
The most effective tool in the process of psychological counseling is actually the psychological counselor himself, who uses his personality to influence and help others. It is impossible for a person who has lost confidence in life and is full of complaints or negative attitudes towards life to help visitors face life positively. It is impossible for a consultant with many unreasonable beliefs in his mind to analyze the unreasonable cognition of visitors. Therefore, to solve the problem of visitors, psychological counselors must first obtain self-growth. The growth of psychological counselors is to use the theory and technology of psychological counseling to analyze their psychological problems, solve their psychological problems, shape their healthy personality, and finally influence visitors with healthy personality. To put it simply, the ideal state of studying psychology as a psychological counselor is to first make yourself a truly happy and confident person. Only with this energy can people who ask for help be happy.
The third growth is the need for continuous internship application and supervision by the supervisor.
Mastering knowledge is not equal to applying knowledge. Applying knowledge theory is a process. First of all, you can learn to look at various psychological phenomena and problems in your daily life from a psychological point of view and think like a psychological counselor. For example, when people around you are unhappy, learn to use the theory of rational emotional therapy to analyze the unreasonable belief content of various bad emotions. Psychological counseling industry is as high-risk as doctors, and it is very dangerous to accept cases directly without interns and supervisors. People with all kinds of mental health. Failure to refer visitors in time due to inexperienced novices will not only delay the illness, but also cause sudden suicide or injury to consultants. What needs to be emphasized again is the counseling ethics and professionalism of psychological counselors. Counselors who have no professional ethics and no sense of awe in their careers will only bring deeper secondary harm to those who ask for help, and will eventually ruin their career or life.
About how to grow up to be a zero-actual-combat psychological counselor, here is an introduction for everyone. I hope it can help you achieve greater growth. As for how to become an excellent psychological counselor, it still needs continuous study and actual combat. Come on!