The qualitative research findings are based on several years of theoretical and conceptual engagement with career and further education counseling, which is subject to high societal and political demands in practice. In a research group, the recorded counseling sessions were analyzed sequentially to provide a detailed analysis of the professional practice of counseling with regard to a theoretical concept. Detailed analyses reveal the complexity of professional counseling as support for individual decision-making processes and thus reflect the lived practices in counseling. So far, comparable evaluations are not available.