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David Andrews Counselling Service London. Our Philosophy.
Here at David Andrews we practice Person Centered Counselling.
This approach to Counselling is based on the belief that people are capable of working out their own solutions once they have gained recognition of their own potential to do so.
We see the client as the best authority on their own experience, being fully capable of finding their own answers and direction. This can be achieved when the client fully understands their relationship with the world around them. This will lead to greater self awareness, empowering the client to take control over their own lives.
Person Centred Counselling aims to provide three core conditions which help that growth to occur. These are:
Unconditional Positive Regard.
Empathy. (Understanding).
Congruence. (Genuineness)
Unconditional Positive Regard - Means that the counsellor accepts the client unconditionally and non-judgementally. The client is free to explore all thoughts and feelings, positive or negative, without danger of rejection or condemnation. Crucially, the client is free to explore and to express without having to do anything in particular or meet any particular standards of behaviour to 'earn' positive regard from the counsellor.
Empathy (Understanding) - Means that the counsellor accurately understands the client's thoughts, feelings, and meanings from the client's own perspective. When the counsellor perceives what the world is like from the client's point of view, it demonstrates not only that that view has value, but also that the client is being accepted.
Congruence (Genuineness) - Means that the counsellor is authentic and genuine. The counsellor does not present an aloof professional facade, but is present and transparent to the client. There is no air of authority or hidden knowledge, and the client does not have to speculate about what the counsellor is 'really like'. Together, these three core conditions enable the client to develop and grow in their own way -- to strengthen and expand their own identity and to become the person that they 'really' are independently of the pressures of others to act or think in particular ways.
Person-Centered Therapy (PCT), also known as Client-Centered Therapy, was developed by the humanist psychologist Carl Rogers in the 1940s and 1950s.
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