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We are constantly striving for delivering excellent counselling session to you Nigerians and as such have to rate the service given to you by our counsellors and partner organizations. Many of our clients have kindly written a counselling review to provide you with an idea of what can be achieved with a Truthshare counsellor and therapist. See them here. These Reviews give you a chance to ask for what you want from future sessions. You can see some of A review aims to find out how therapy has affected the client, and in particular what has changed as a result. It can also help inform how the client would like future sessions to be used. It can be particularly useful when the number of sessions is limited, though it is important not to make too much of the number remaining, as this could pressurise the client. A number of tips on reviewing in counselling: <ul> <li>Do mention to the client when contracting that you plan to do reviews, and check how they feel about this.</li> <li>Make it clear to the client that you will not be reviewing their ‘performance’ – in other words, it’s just to see where they feel they’re at, not measuring how well they have done.</li> <li>Explain that the review also offers them the chance to ask for what they want from future sessions.</li> <li>Ideally, give at least one session’s notice of a review, so that the client isn’t caught unawares.</li> <li>If, when the planned day for the review comes, the client has something urgent they want to talk about instead, let them do so and save the review for the next time.</li> <li>Make sure you listen openly to how the client feels they’ve changed: what seems like a tiny change to you may be huge for the client.</li> <li>If the client has been spontaneously reviewing as they’ve gone along, there may be no need for a specific review.</li> <li>Be gentle and respectful – and remember that therapy is a process, not an event.</li> </ul>