Problem:
Read the following about a new client you have as a mental health counselor:
This is your first session with Maya Hernandez, a 15-year-old, Latina, cisgender, girl who has been referred to you for difficulties related to chronic school absenteeism linked to anxiety symptoms. Maya's referral notes indicate a diagnosis of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) with school refusal behaviors.
As a part of your first session, your goals for this interaction are to build and maintain rapport and identify Maya's reasons or goals for attending counselling. Be sure to communicate unconditional positive regard and encourage Maya's engagement, in order to better understand her strengths and challenges, including any contextual information about obstacles to her goals.
How would you greet her to open the session, and what would you say to begin building rapport? Need Assignment Help?