Personal Reflection

Countertransference can help, hinder, or harm clients. Several sources of

countertransference can influence a counsellor's work, whether from one's own

unconscious unresolved conflicts, implicit biases emanating from one's insidious

socialization and acculturation, consciously known but still-affecting relatable personal

life experiences, visceral reactions to clients' disclosures, and/or, in-vivo stress-inducing

☐ interactions with them. Examine any or all of these sources of countertransference as

potentially relevant in your work with clients. Specify which client characteristics,

symptoms, traits, and/or mental disorders might likely activate your own

countertransference. Propose how you might mitigate the possibility of your

countertransference hindering or harming, and, how you might facilitate utilizing your

countertransference as a source of helping your clients.

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