When we provided internship that would give opportunity to observe the clients’ sessions, 99% of clients did not give consent for the interns to observe the session as the clients were concerned about confidentiality.
Thus interns had to wait for many days to observe a single counselling session. That’s when we conceived the training programme with real counselling sessions. We do not do mock sessions or role play in our training. In almost all of our batches, there have been minimum 1 or maximum 10 participants attended the training for their college/university internship requirement and observed real counselling sessions and completed their internship successfully. You may search in the Google Reviews with the term “Internship” and you will get the reviews of the people. Google Review Link: https://goo.gl/maps/YS8GcRFGMgJ2
In clinical settings where patients suffer from severe psychological disorders may not bother interns sitting and observing the session as they may not be in touch with reality but our clients are normal and they just have day-today issues. That is why it is very rare to get consent in a counseling set up like ours.