You receive a call for a new client at your private practice. She reports being stressed and anxious over the past several months and identifies as a person of color. Upon meeting her in your first session, she discloses she has been struggling with the racial injustices that are happening. You validate her experience and make a remark about police reform. Your client becomes visibly uncomfortable and tells you that she is also married to a law enforcement officer. What do you do? How do you hold both of her experiences in your counseling relationship? Do you continue treating her?
Unit 4 DB: Client Questions
Assume you are employed by a local human services agency as an intake interviewer. How do you answer the following questions that your client has during the initial meeting? For this forum, your initial response can be formatted in bullet points to address each question. Be sure to also provide