| Summary: | Counseling psychologist Mark L. Savickas conducts the third of three sessions in a course of brief psychotherapy with a late-career Caucasian female client who recently lost her job and seeks greater direction in her next career steps. Using a narrative counseling approach, Dr. Savickas summarizes the client's life story developed in the previous two sessions and supports the client's further articulation of occupational choices arising from this narrative process, while acknowledging her multiple family and social roles. The client expresses both excitement and anxiety regarding the uncertainty accompanying this transition, which the therapist validates. In the upcoming job-seeking process, he encourages the client to tell her story through the use of her voice and articulate expression, as strengths derived from overcoming early speech problems. The therapist advocates for the client to follow her dreams of environmental community service while considering alternative ways of achieving these goals that take into account practical realities.
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