There's a tricky sweet spot to find because not enough eye contact can be invalidating (think of a time you were telling a story and no one was listening), but TOO much eye contact can be overwhelming and can create shame.
From Geldard et al., 2016: Basic Personal Counselling: A training manual for counsellors
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How to be a better conversationalist using the listening skills therapists use
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In therapy, therapists use a skill called paraphrasing to condense a story into a sentence (like a blurb for a book) for a few reasons:
- To better help the client reflect
- To help organise thoughts
- To show the client they have been heard
- To allow the client to correc...
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