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A counseling session can become frighten when there is silence between client and counselor.

The counselor may ask a question to client to prevent silence and make the client keep talking.

The answer can be ignore, it is because the question is not a good question and same goes to the answer.

The recent study of the effect of the silence during actual counseling session found that significantly higher amounts of silences were linked to greater rapport whereas the lower amounts of silence were linked to lesser rapport.

The intentional use of silence can contribute greatly to the helping in relationship and establishment of rapport between counselor and client. 

 Silence has another meaning that is important to acknowledge. Client can absorb the experiences and experiencing fully the therapeutic moment.