Maximizing Individual Potential Through Professional Counseling Activity

Abstract

Counseling activity is a professional practice, which offers the individual multiple development possibilities, in terms of self-knowledge and specialized assistance for making a correct and realistic decision regarding the educational and/or professional path. In this sense, this article proposes for debate and analysis a series of elements that any specialist in this field must have in mind when practicing this activity. Also, the paper emphasizes the need for professional counseling that every individual feels, consciously or not, in order to build and develop their professional career. The counseling activity is a democratic relationship, which takes place in a collaborative professional framework, is part of a process and always has an ethical purpose, being adapted to a specific context and a certain culture. We all want to build a successful career, and in this sense we must remember that we have a dynamic process to go through, in which education, indeed, plays an essential role, but the counseling activity comes in support of it, helping the individual to realize their individual potential.