Deliberate practice exercises help trainees achieve competence in essential career counseling skills and apply them in a range of situations while honing their own personal style and language. These exercises present role-playing scenarios in which two trainees act as a client and a counselor, switching back and forth under the guidance of a supervisor. The counselor improvises appropriate and authentic responses to client statements organized into three difficulty levels-beginner, intermediate, and advanced-that reflect common questions and concerns. Each of the first 12...