Assignment 3: Applying Counseling Skills to a Case Study

In this assignment, complete the following tasks:Read the following fictitious case study and summarize the issue that brought the client to counseling.

Identify the client’s behaviors, emotions, and thinking patterns. In addition, identify how you would apply your encouraging, paraphrasing, and summarizing skills.Demonstrate how you can reflect the client’s feelings.Finally, using empathy, try to understand your client’s perspective.Note: All aspects of this case study are completely fictional and any resemblance to a real person is coincidental.Gary is a 45-year-old sport surgeon. He has come for counseling because he’s been feeling depressed lately. Gary is gay and has been in a committed relationship with his partner Sam for 15 years. Most of the surgeries he does are for elite athletes who are injured and need joint repair. Gary is an avid golfer, has been a vegetarian for 20 years, and he also enjoys jogging and gardening. Sam, his partner, is a business manager. Their relationship is happy, monogamous, and mutually supportive. Gary’s biological family live in the Seattle area. His father is 80 and is a retired heart surgeon who still teaches part time at a medical university. His mother is 75 and does not work outside the home.