TPC-Journal-V2-Issue3

The Professional Counselor \Volume 2, Issue 3 225 Appendix B: Client Interview Protocol 1. What brought you to counseling? 2. What were you hoping to get out of counseling? 3. What are your goals for counseling? 4. Has counseling met your expectations? In what ways? 5. What have you learned through counseling about yourself? 6. Can you describe the relationship you have with your counselor? Now I’d like you to think specifically about today’s session . . . 7. Was today’s session similar to session one? How so? 8. Can you tell me about today’s session? 9. How do you feel about today’s session? When you think about today’s session, I want you to think about what was meaningful to you . . . 10. What stood out for you in today’s session? Which of those things stood out the most for you? 11. What things seemed most important to you? What of those seemed most important? 12. What things felt most meaningful to you in today’s session? Which of those things felt the most meaningful? 13. What do you imagine your counselor might say was most meaningful in today’s session? 14. Is there anything that you wish would have come up in today’s session that didn’t? 15. Is there anything else that you would like to tell me about today’s session?