the level to which the counselor reveals his personality to the client, voices facts from his life, thoughts or feelings. The degree of self-disclosure in counseling can vary: from the communication of individual demographic data about oneself to full self-disclosure, including even experiences and problems that are not related to the process of psychotherapy. There are several types of self-disclosure:
1) Intentional: the psychotherapist decides to do or not to do self-disclosure in the session, controls this action.
2) Inevitable: the client, interacting with the therapist, involuntarily learns some things about him through indirect reactions.
3) Incidental: Does not refer to the context of the therapeutic conversation, but to what happens outside of the sessions.
4) Client-initiated: when it is important for the client that the therapist tells something about himself.
In each specific case of the relationship between the consultant and the client, the issue of self-disclosure should be resolved separately.