A good counselor should posses most if not all of this characteristics; he or she should have an identity where he or she understands his/her strengths and weaknesses and how to deal with them, should be honest sincere and authentic, should be able to put life aspects into perspective, maintain healthy boundaries, be passionate, and have the courage to pursue his or her work passionately so as to deliver effectively, should be deeply involved in his or her work so as to gain meaning from it and be of help to people, have effective interpersonal skills so that he or she can easily intermingle with different clients, fit into their conditions and try help them overcome their problems, be sensitive on matters concerning people's welfare by exercising aspects like care, trust, respect and value for others, be responsive on matters regarding culture by having the understanding that there is diversity in culture and different clients will portray different cultures and hence have respect to all and consider differences in social classes, race etc and treat them equally, he or she should always be at per with what is happening in the world so as to solve client's problems adequately and sufficiently, should embrace change by making adjustment to his or her lifestyle to have job satisfaction by doing what is right and resourceful and make good choices that can yield good results when implemented (Norcross, 2002)
Making Ethical Decisions.
Anonymous (2010) asserts that it is usually a hard task for counselors to make ethical and informed decisions.
