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A Good Counselor

Will

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- Discuss the rights and responsibilities of the counseling relationship and allow you to choose whether you want them to be your counselor.

- Explain what their qualifications are – and are not.

- Work with you to determine what you want to accomplish and how you will get there.

- Consult with peers and/or have accountability for their actions. Licensed counselors are accountable to their licensing board. If your counselor is not licensed, ask who their supervising agency is.

- Recognize where their expertise ends and recommend someone who can help.

- Behave in a professional manner.

- Be respectful of other counselors.

Will NOT

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- Exploit a client.

- Make promises about how their counseling will work.

- Have a formula or easy fix for your problem.

- Share what you have told them with others without talking to you about it first (or without sound ethical or legal justification.)

- Express interest in or enter a romantic or sexual relationship with a client, nor will they counsel someone with whom they have had such a relationship.

- Hug or touch, usually, and certainly not without permission.