Who would study psychology if they didn't have some kind of problem?

Chapter 32 The Teacher's Phone Call

"I heard that your last visitor didn't come yesterday. Does this cause you any psychological burden?"

A calm and gentle voice came from ahead, instantly calming the listener.

This kind of voice is naturally suited for being a psychological counselor.

Even if you don't become a psychologist, being a costumed streamer or an AMSR streamer would be excellent.

After hearing the question, Nan Zhuren shook his head and replied, "No, I have no burden."

"Then you should take a day off today and organize the information on the visitors you have."

Yan Nuo Psychological Counseling Center, Director's Office.

Weng Pingting glanced at Nan Zhuren's face. After a night's rest, the young consultant had fully recovered.

But Weng Pingting is not a businesswoman. As a professionally trained consultant, she knows that she cannot put too much pressure on her consultants.

With a workload like yesterday's, with eight consultations in a single day, coming once every two weeks would be excessive, let alone every day.

Even if I wanted to, there wouldn't be enough consulting resources available to Nan Zhuren.

Other counselors might have objections.

"Take a break today. Focus on the clients you have who can be turned into case studies, organize the materials, and develop a good consultation plan," Weng Pingting instructed.

"Also, let's organize the consultations from the past few days. Tomorrow, our consultation department will have a regular meeting for exchange, so you can learn from each other."

At this point, Weng Pingting smiled.

……

For ordinary working people, routine meetings are torture, a form of torture, a waste of time and a drain on their mental well-being.

However, the regular meetings at the consultation center are different.

In a sense, it can even be considered a benefit.

To become a qualified psychological counselor, one needs extensive skills training and case accumulation.

Training fees for counseling techniques can easily reach tens of thousands of yuan. If counselors want to earn money to conduct training, they must first conduct counseling. However, to conduct counseling, they must first learn at least one counseling technique, so counselors must first undergo training.

This creates a bizarre logical loop.

Many counselors become trapped in this closed loop.

Because of a lack of skills, novice counselors can only do small, peripheral consultations, painstakingly save money, and waste their youth.

This is why it's said that a true counselor only takes shape after the age of thirty.

The regular exchange meetings at the counseling center that Weng Pingting is talking about now are a new attempt in the development of the psychological counseling industry, and an excellent way for counselors to break out of this closed loop of logic.

This approach allows counselors in the same office to sit together in regular meetings to exchange information about the problems they encounter with clients and discuss solutions.

On the one hand, counselors can enrich their arsenal by learning solutions from others; on the other hand, counselors can also enrich their contingency plans by learning from shared cases, so that they know how to deal with similar clients in the future.

Although it is not as formal as a proper skills training, it can bring real improvement to the consultants' skills.

Not to mention having a top consultant like Weng Pingting chair the regular meetings, which is equivalent to supervising everyone.

You should know that with Weng Pingting's status, she charges by the hour when she works as a supervisor!

Therefore, both new and experienced counselors are happy to participate in such exchange meetings.

Nan Zhuren readily agreed, saying, "I'll organize my case properly this morning."

Weng Pingting nodded in satisfaction: "Your conversion rate is currently the highest in the center. Of course, this may be because you haven't been here long, there's a... haha, 'newbie protection period'."

Weng Pingting smiled, implying that the visitors Nan Zhuren was currently receiving were "high-quality visitors" who had been "carefully selected" and were highly likely to be converted into case studies.

As working hours increase, the number of strange and unpredictable visitors will rise, leading to a decrease in conversion rates.

"But even if we remove that factor, and compare your conversion rate with other consultants when they first joined the company, you are still far ahead."

Weng Pingting smiled and said, "Everyone is craning their necks to hear how you do consulting." Nan Zhuren nodded in a socially humble manner, "I also hope to hear everyone's views and opinions, and learn new experiences from other seniors."

This is actually Nan Zhuren's true feeling.

Development can only occur through communication and learning.

Weng Pingting smiled too.

She suddenly remembered something: "Oh, right, I'm going to give a psychology lecture at Jiangdu University in a while and I need an assistant. Would you like to come?"

"Speaking of which, you used to be from Jiangdu University, right?"

……

Nan Zhuren did not receive any further inquiries throughout the day.

On one hand, he was organizing the consultation materials from the past few days.

On the other hand, he was considering whether to go to Jiangdu University with Weng Pingting to give a lecture.

"You know, 'I' used to be a student at Jiangdu University, but I was expelled..."

As Nan Zhuren was muttering to himself, he suddenly remembered something else.

"Isn't Chen Ting, who didn't come for consultation yesterday, also from Jiangdu University?"

Jingle Bell--

The phone rang abruptly.

It's 9 p.m. now, and very few people would call Nan Zhuren at this time.

He looked down and saw two words flashing on the screen:
【teacher】

Nan Zhuren raised an eyebrow, walked to the balcony, and pressed the answer button while enjoying the breeze.

"teacher?"

A steady, middle-aged man's voice came from the other end of the phone: "Zhu Ren?"

"It's me, teacher."

Nan Zhuren answered.

On the other end of the phone was Nan Zhuren's mentor during his time at school.

In my memory, he was a humorous, charming, and knowledgeable professor. In addition to his teaching position at the university, he also held many social positions and was quite famous and respected in his field.

Nan Zhuren received a lot of care from the other party during his time at school.

Even after Nan Zhuren was expelled, her mentor still found her a job—she is now a counselor, but originally she was a counseling assistant.

This allowed Nan Zhuren, who was all alone, to have a foothold in Jiangdu.

However, since Nan Zhuren was expelled, his advisor has not contacted him.

Why did you suddenly call today?
A voice came from the phone: "Zhu Ren, how have you been lately?"

"Judging by the days, you should have been at work for two days now, right? Has anything unexpected happened? Have you been working diligently?"

“I have teachers who are working. Today is the third day, and they have already finished get off work.”

"The third day? Oh, I'm abroad right now, there's a time difference, I didn't notice..."

The voice on the other end of the phone first sounded apologetic, then seemed relieved: "It's good that you're doing well at work. You're capable of providing independent counseling, but for now you can only work as a counseling assistant. I know you're upset, but after 'that' incident, your situation is very bad. I'll try to pull some strings for you and see if there's any way to turn things around. With your talent, going back to school would be the best thing. Your current boss is an old friend of mine, and I've asked him to take good care of you..."

Nan Zhuren said calmly, "Actually, I'm doing consultations right now. Yesterday, I worked on one for eight hours straight."

There was a sharp pause on the other end of the phone, followed by a surprised exclamation: "Huh? Didn't I tell him to make you a consulting assistant?"

(End of this chapter)