CST-L3 Case Study Presentation Template - Use prompts to structure a counselling case study

Aug 30, 2026

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CST-L3 Case Study Presentation Template provides a slide-ready structure for documenting a counselling case study from referral through contracting, ethical practice, and session work. It guides anonymisation of client and safeguarding-sensitive details, prompts reflection on presenting issues, goals, and progress, and requests clear description of beginning, middle, and end stages. It also emphasizes safe practice, supervision, counselling relationship stages, key moments, difference and diversity, self-awareness, and applying counselling theory and modality. Finally, it supports learning, session countdown to endings, and reflection on future impact.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryPresentations

FormatDOCX

Pages2

Reading Time1 min

AccessFree to download

Case Study Setup

Client anonymisation and referral rationale

Work Plan and Safe Practice

Presenting issues, goals, and monitoring

Ethical and safe work across sessions

Contracting, check-ins, supervision

Counselling Relationship and Process

Working with stages of the counselling relationship

Key moments and session outline

Ending preparation and counting down sessions

Reflection and Learning

Difference, diversity, and self-awareness

Theory, modality, and understanding outcomes

Supervision learning and implementation

What is significant and what will change next time

CST-L3 Case Study Presentation Template Candidate Name ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Candidate Number ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Class ……………………………………………………......................................................................................... Date…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Number of Sessions Completed……………………………………………………………………………………………………. USE THE PROMPTS IN THE DOCUMENT TO CONSIDER THE CONTENT OF YOUR CASE STUDY Client details (gender, age. Do not use the individual’s name but rather an anonymiser – code letter, initials etc.). Anonymise the client to ensure that if another party picked up the documents, they could not identify the client. This involves ensuring critical content is anonymised, not just the client’s name. Why the client has come to you for counselling. What were the initial presenting issues? Did they change, was there any requirement for signposting to resources? What the client would like to achieve from counselling. What aims or goals does the client have? Do they change, are they monitored or kept in focus? How did you work ethically and safely? What did you do in the beginning, middle and end of the process to promote safe practice? Contracting, checking in, supervision, appropriate responses and actions? How did you work with the stages of the counselling relationship? Counting down sessions, preparing for an ending, managing sessions. Outline what happened in the counselling sessions. Key moments, significant events – these are more important than a chronological account How did you work with difference and diversity? Identify difference and sameness. How did these impact? How did you work with this? How did your self-awareness inform the counselling work? What did you find out about yourself? How did you find this out? How did it impact the work, to enhance it or impede it? How does your counselling theory help you understand this client? Use your modality to understand the client’s presenting issues and experience. Show your understanding and how this impacted the work. What issues do you need to bring to group training supervision? What did you bring to supervision? What did you learn? What did you implement as a result? What was the impact on the relationship or the outcome? What have you learnt from this experience? What really feels significant? What would you do differently if you could? What difference will this make to your work in the future?

FAQs

How should the client and details be anonymised in the case study presentation?

Use anonymiser methods such as code letters or initials and ensure all critical identifying content is removed, not only the client’s name. Review the document so a third party cannot identify the client.

What questions does the template ask about presenting issues and counselling goals?

It prompts describing the initial presenting issues, whether they changed over time, and any signposting needs. It also asks what the client wants to achieve, whether aims/goals changed, and how progress is monitored and kept in focus.

How does the template structure ethical and safe practice across the counselling process?

It asks how ethical and safe work was conducted at the beginning, middle, and end, including contracting, check-ins, supervision, and appropriate responses and actions. It also requests describing how sessions promoted safe practice and relationship stages.

Aug 30, 2026

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