Counselors Clients often come to counselors to change their lives in some way, such as to become more assertive. As likely, clients seek counseling as a result of some change, prehaps a death or different working conditions. Clients ofren find themselves in the midsyt of some change they do not understand or over which they have little control. In its most general form, counseling provides a context for such change. How to evplain any change, how to assess its direction or to predictg irs effects, and how to understand the meaning any change may have for the client are questions the effective counselor must ask. The counselor relies on the concepts o