What would be the characteristics of a person who will make a very good counsellor?
First you need to understand what is counselling. I did initial course of introduction to counselling, that involved primarily a way of working with emotional relations difficulties which involved present and past.There are numerous counsellors that deal with different aspect of emotional relations. So if a person want to become a counsellor, a) need to be good listener.b) to be trained in this field c) non-judgemental d)need to be supportive e) allow the client to work out their own problem f) counsllor is no there to fix everything g) keeping to confidentiality e) follow code of pratcise. f) be very professional. g) someone who genuinely care about people There ware very good sites on the internet you type in counseling and you will come up with hundreds of suggestions.