What I Offer

A Person Centred Approach to Counselling

Is at the core of intervention. I will unreservedly treat each person in practice, with unconditional positive regard.

Personal Centred Counselling was devised and developed by Carl Rogers initially as 'non directive therapy' then in 1951 he re-focused the title to 'Client Centred Therapy'. The term 'Person Centred' crept in, in the 1970's

Person Centred Counselling is more about 'being with' than 'doing'.

The core to its practice is in the belief that humans have an internal desire to realize their full potential with a desire for self-healing.

The Counsellor will be congruent or integrated in the relationship, exhibiting unconditional positive regard for the client, with an empathic understanding of the client's internal frame of reference.

The Person Centred Counsellor believes that it is important to reject the pursuit of authority or control over others and to seek to share power.

Interpersonal Communication (IPC)

'The reality of the other person is not what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen to not what he says but rather what he does not say'. (Kahill Gibran).

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