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Accredited European Counsellors will demonstrate their ability to:

• Continually develop multicultural awareness;

• Recognise cultural differences between counsellor and client at cultural /country level, and acknowledge and address these in a non-judgmental way;

• Adjust their style of communication to match that of the client;

• Set, maintain and review the appropriate structural and relational boundaries at different stages of the counselling process;

• Establish a contract or an explicit mutual working agreement regarding the aims of the counselling work;

• Develop awareness of the context in which the client and counsellor are functioning to create the best possible conditions; develop an understanding of how counselling influences the context;

• Address the client’s issues in ways that contribute to the counselling process;

• Refine the aims of the counselling to move it forward;

• Facilitate the movement toward the client’s insight, development and change;

• Facilitate the transfer of learning from the counselling relationship to the client’s everyday life;

• Review the counselling process in terms of the client’s experience;

• Bring the counselling to closure in a way that recognises the experience for both the client and the counsellor;

• Work consistently within a clear theoretical orientation;

• Recognise limits and boundaries, both professional and personal;

• Recognise client issues that need the attendance of another professional and refer the client appropriately;

• Be consistently aware of ethical issues and an appropriate approach to moral dilemmas;

• Evaluate the counselling process in terms of your learning as a counsellor;

• Recognise the need for ongoing Supervision and act accordingly.