ABSTRACT
You may be anticipating your workplace and thinking, “How can my therapeutic relationship with clients be enough for all that I do?” This is a good question. To answer we refer you back to the quote presented in the introductory chapter of The Heart of Counseling and repeated above. With the quote and the Introduction to this book, we give the assurance that a healthy heart or emotional core makes all of the body work well. The heart or emotional core extends to our minds (thought and language), our hands (written language and assessment) and even our feet! There are times in which you as counselor must genuinely speak your mind, as well as respond from your heart; and there are times that your feet will carry your counseling skills through applications of therapeutic relationships well beyond your counseling setting.
