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Client Centered Therapy And How It Will Work For You
Author : Calvin Henry
Submitted : 2011-08-12 06:47:43 Word Count : 603 Popularity: 14
Tags: client centered therapy, therapy focused on the client, therapy for the patient, client centerted therapy, client centered, centered therapy, clinical
Keep in mind that client centered therapy takes time. As I made progress, my sessions were eventually cut back to the point that after three years, I no longer needed them.If you've being diagnosed with depression and it's your emotions that are getting the best of you by negatively impacting the way you feel about yourself, talk to your doctor about client centered therapy. It worked for me, it could work for you as well. Person Centered Therapy was pioneered by Carl Rogers. Originally known as nondirective counselling in the 1940s, it was renamed Client-Centered Therapy in the 1950s and finally renamed Person Centered Therapy in the 1970s. Rogers caused a shift in thinking, away from medical models of mental health, where people were regarded as sick and in need of treatment. He was the first therapist to use the term client rather than patient.Central to Rogers' work is the belief that the counsellor does not know best. The client is an expert in their own lives and they play a vital role in their own therapy. People are able to find their way forward and the therapist enables this process. Unlike other approaches, Person Centered Therapy is not technique driven. It is about building a valuable relationship between client and therapist, to enable the client to recognise their capability for change.Change is possible within all of us and therapy can assist a client to recognise their potential. The ideal goal is 'self-actualisation', where a person is free to be themselves and are able to stop trying to live up to the expectations of other. Instead they live a life of honesty and have control of their destiny. For change to happen, three core conditions need to be met within the therapeutic relationship: congruence, unconditional positive regard and empathy.By being congruent, the therapist must be genuine and not hide behind a role. The counsellor will not claim to be an expert, who knows best. In some ways, the therapist is the model for change - being real and honest.Unconditional positive regard means the therapist will accept the client for who they are. They will respect the client's unique experiences, without disapproval or evaluation. People are often judged throughout their lives, beginning with the criticisms of parents and teachers. Such judgements lead a person to not being true to oneself, nor open and honest. Within counselling, a client can open up without fear of rebuke. Rogers' research found the greater the acceptance, the more likely therapy was successful.By displaying empathy, the therapist is living the client's here and now experience as much as possible. It is different to sympathy, where a person feels sorry for another. The therapist will feel the pain, but not get so enmeshed that they are no longer helpful to the client.The Client Centered approach focuses on the helping posture of the coach to deepen the understanding of the clients understanding of her current state of being. The technique is to reflect to the client what they are saying and to keep deepening their understanding. The client achieves deeper understanding from exploring what she is currently experiencing. It is through her words that she eventually gains insight in to her current state of being. The coach works hard at being a mirror and avoids applying filters to the clients experience.
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