Problem
I. As broken systems often result in a significant amount of distrust in individuals not served by our government (Collins, 2018), it becomes more difficult to help as we are attached to systems that perpetuate certain biases. How can we as counsellors create trusting and helpful relationships with individuals whose basic physiological needs are not being met?
II. Consider the following hypothetical vignette:
You are a counsellor at the student counselling centre at a Canadian post-secondary educational setting. You have been assigned to work with a 22-year-old client who identifies as an Indigenous, Queer/Two-Spirit person with a disability who has come for counselling related to their identities and intersectionalities and their experiences of them in their school classes.
How will you approach working with this client? What are some of the things that you might want to learn about the client and their current experiences that will be most salient to working together with them?