Emmanuelle Carette describes what happens in the following advice sessions.
So when we meet the learner for the second, third or fourth time, they’re bound to have worked. If they haven’t worked, we’ll look at the reasons why they haven’t, but in general they’ve still tried to do something, they’ve engaged in activities, and they report back. So with their difficulties, their possible facilities, their pleasure, their interest, or on the contrary their lack of interest. They express their frustrations, they express their satisfactions. But you can never really predict what’s going to happen in a counselling interview, because it’s the learner who’s going to bring up what they want to discuss.
The first and subsequent interviews