This course is about how to help people change what they experience and how they live their lives. We will examine core strategies, interventions, and counselor skills for the common issues clients bring to counselors and therapists. Learn from your own experience with a personal change experiment; practice helping a classmate; practice planning to help clients via cases examples; learn to research strategies useful with clients and problems of special interest to you; watch master therapists demonstrate their approaches to key elements of effective work with clients; learn how to help clients engage their best values and goals; learn to individualize your approach within a wholistic framework of social, cultural and spiritual relevance to your clients.