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Top 10 Counselling Skills That Will Help You in Your Daily Life and Interpersonal Relationships

There are a bunch of skills that are extremely essential to be a successful counsellor or therapist. To be honest, these skills are not very different from the skills that people who are good at maintaining effective interpersonal relations use in their daily life. During my 1st semester of Masters, when I was being taught about the famous counselling skills that every counsellor should have, and as we started practicing these skills, I observed a change in my relations with my friends. And being a psychology student, what can I say, I think we are trained to have an optimal level of "over-not so-over-thinking". So using this acquired super power, I finally realized that the reason behind this betterment was the skills I was learning. So, let me share the top ten counselling skills, that I know will help you in your daily life and your interpersonal relationships because they have worked for me too! 10. Sense of Humour As the age old phrase goes, "laughter is ...