Carl Rogers Person-Centered Therapy

Principles and Philosophy of Person-Centered Therapy.
Client-centered therapy was developed more than seventy years ago by Carl Rogers, whom many therapists considered the most influential psychotherapist in history. In Rogers later years, he changed the name to person-centered therapy due to his concern with humanity; including families, businesses and education. In this type of therapy, the therapist conveys empathy, acceptance, value and unconditional support rather than providing specific interpretations or direction. This allows the client to feel empowered and capable of obtaining answers to challenges or conflict. Rogers’ viewed clients as people, not their pathology.
Carl Rogers essentially took these features of a good relationship
Many people live in a frightening world of their own making; they desperately try to hold everything in place. Rogers goal was to get inside the skin of the client (Rogers, 1961). Rogers felt it was a big difference between someone trying to work out your problem and help with it, and that person actually wanting to feel what it is like to be you. Having that connection is a powerful.
Rogers observed that clients were desperate to become their real selves. Clients would wear masks to hide, and they were quite concerned about what others thought of them or what they ought to do it certain situation. However, in person-centered therapy, the client would be brought back to the immediate situation and address those facades and masks and then are transformed into a person who asks “what does this mean to me?”. Doing this introspective work brings out the real person, not just a reflection of
Also, increased capacity to experience and express feelings at the moment they occur; and openness to new experiences and new ways of thinking about life. Studies indicate that individuals who have been treated with this approach maintain stable changes over extended periods of time. (Rogers,