Problem: After reading the following scenario "Erica", answer the following four questions from the point of view of a licensed professional counselor (LPC). *Restate each question. Provide specific counseling techniques or approaches to enhance understanding. Provide a direct articulation of how rapport and trust are cultivated in the counseling process. Provide opportunity for questions or clarifications which can enhance engagement.
1. How should a licensed professional counselor (LPC) respond to Erica's request for advice? What would they tell her? Need Assignment Help?
2. Erica will experience a variety of changes as she begins to live as Erica in all of her real-life settings. What sorts of challenges does Erica anticipate and what challenges can be foreseen?
3. How can an LPC help Erica explore the kinds of challenges that she might face, including both overt and covert discrimination?
4. How can the LPC empower Erica to meet the challenges she will face?
Scenario of "Erica":
Thank you for seeing me. I was really looking forward to coming in and speaking with you. My name's Eric. But this is really confidential, isn't it? II saw the confidentiality form, but I this is so important to me. I'd like you to call me Erica. I need you to call me Erica. I'm mom. Tomorrow I'm beginning a transition from. Male to female. It's been a really long time coming. I actually got a referral to you from trans family. It's a, it's a group II get some support from and II attend and and and work with. They said you had experience in helping with this transition. The real but the reason that now is so important. Is that? Well, I've been exploring. I've been exploring this a little bit and I've been dressing as a woman in the evenings and on weekends sometimes. And a trans family meetings. But now I'm getting ready. I'd like to do the. The real life test in preparation for considering hormones or. Possibly surgery. And basically I need to. I'll need to be. I'll need to be Erica at work, and I have this. I have a really responsible job. I had it for 15 years with this company. They know me as Eric Every. But he's worked with me closely as Eric. I am Eric there. None of them know who I really am. Really, no one knows. My family doesn't know that. Just the people are trans family and. You. So I'm gonna need some some advice, some help, some guidance on how I'm going to approach work. Really, II. Don't know how they're going to accept this or even if they're going to accept this. I'd like to be able to keep my job and. And do this transition. The thing is, I really don't know what will happen, you know? The day that I come to work. Finally as my real self as Erica dressed as a woman and. Whether they'll be able to accept that, how they're accepted, I don't even know how to talk about it. I just. I need your advice.