Therapy

The person-centered therapist learns to recognize and trust human potential, providing clients with empathy and unconditional positive regard to help facilitate change. The therapist avoids directing the course of therapy by following the client’s lead whenever possible. Instead, the therapist offers support, guidance, and structure so that the client can discover personalized solutions within themselves.

Goals of the person-centered therapy:

⦁ Facilitate personal growth and development
⦁ Eliminate or mitigate feelings of distress
⦁ Increase self-esteem and openness to experience
⦁ Enhance the person’s understanding of him- or herself

Key qualities for a valuable person-centered therapist:

⦁ Unconditional Positive Regard: The therapist needs to accept the person for who they are and provide support and care no matter what they are going through.
⦁ Empathetic Understanding: the person-centered therapist must extend empathy to the person, both to form a positive therapeutic relationship and to act as a sort of mirror, reflecting the person’s thoughts and feelings back to them; this will allow the person to better understand themselves.

I hope this information provides you with a better understanding of person-centered therapy, and that it will encourage you to think of yourself as the master and expert of your own experience. You are the only one who understands your problems, issues, needs, desires, and goals, and it is to you that you must turn to solve these problems and reach these goals.

It is an added responsibility when you understand that you are responsible for how your life unfolds, but it can also be extremely liberating.

I strongly encourage you to work on building the trust in yourself and in your knowledge and skills that can take your life from “going through the motions” to living a life that is authentic.

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