Psychotherapy and Counseling Skills. If you worked in any clinical setting, you probably received some training in therapy. This experience is usually confined to the clinical population that was treated by the clinic. It is unusual for applicants to have clinical experience among a wide range of clients. These skills refer to abilities you have to interact with people in general.
Psychologists do a lot of listening.
If you cannot quietly listen to clients, you will have difficulty interviewing and engaging in most forms of psychotherapy. You must be sufficiently mature to genuinely place yourself in the life position of someone else. You must be able to inhibit the tendency to intrude your own personality into the interactions with your clients. You must develop understanding and knowledge of how families and social systems work that are unlike your own family or immediate social setting. If you have difficulty interacting with others and cannot genuinely understand the life situation of other people then you should reconsider a career in Clinical Psychology.