Directive Counselling

I do what is called directive counselling. A lot of modern counselling, if not most modern counselling, is non-directive. Directive counselling puts a greater emphasis on the counsellor, while non-directive counselling trusts the process. I believe the counsellor needs to have the knowledge and experience -- or enough knowledge and experience -- to "tussle" with the counselee. OBSERVATION: One might think that such tussling is risky, from the point of view of alienating the counselee. In fact the opposite is true. If a counselee knows that you are on their side, they welcome such tussling, in nearly all cases.