| Person Centered Therapy, also known as Client | | | | that person begins to feel that he or she is worth |
| Centered, Non Directive, or Rogerian Therapy, is | | | | caring for, this is a very powerful affirmation for |
| an approach to counseling and psychotherapy that | | | | a person seeking help. |
| places much of the emphasis on three main Core | | | | The Core Conditions synonymous with this model |
| Conditions and relies heavily on the relationship | | | | are Acceptance, Genuiness and Empathy. |
| between client and counsellor. The client is | | | | Acceptance. The Counsellor or Therapist must be |
| recognised as the expert on them self and this is | | | | able to accept the client as they are, accept their |
| why it works. | | | | issues and that the client is in control of the |
| It is often said that of all the models of | | | | therapeutic relationship. |
| therapeutic intervention, person-centred therapy | | | | Genuineness. The Counsellor or Therapist is real or |
| (PCT) makes the greatest demands on the | | | | authentic in his/her behaviour towards the |
| therapist. This is because a client in PCT must feel | | | | working relationship with the client. They do not |
| that their therapist is utterly trustworthy and | | | | sit as expert, only as a skilled practitioner who will |
| dependable as a person. In this model of therapy | | | | assist the client in finding their own answers to |
| the relationship between client and therapist is of | | | | the presenting problem and other issues which |
| paramount importance. | | | | may be of concern to the client. |
| Psychological skill is not enough in this model. in | | | | Empathy. is the capacity to share and understand |
| addition, the client must feel that the therapist is | | | | another persons emotions and feelings. It is often |
| totally accepting of them, no therapist can fake | | | | characterized as the ability to "put oneself into |
| genuine regard for a client for a sustained period | | | | another persons shoes", or in some way |
| of time. | | | | experience what the other person is feeling. |
| A person-centred therapist's attitude to the client | | | | Person or Client Centred Therapists believe that if |
| should be of total acceptance of the client as he | | | | the relationship is as it should be and if the Core |
| or she is at present, not of what that person | | | | Conditions are in place, then Therapeutic Change is |
| may become in the future. | | | | likely. This is great news for clients choosing this |
| At the very heart of the therapy is the belief | | | | model of therapy. |
| that if a person is cared for by the therapist, then | | | | |