Client-Centered Theory

Client-centered theory is not one built off of beautiful techniques and elaborate goals. It is a theory simply based on a relationship between a client and a therapist. The therapist has an unconditional positive regard for client. Carl Rogers is the mastermind behind client-centered therapy. Client-centered approach is not for every counselor. It is an attitudinal style of counseling. The counselor has to learn that the client is not defined by their personality, but is a person in the process of finding that personality. Counselors are simply there to create an environment where the client can feel free to explore their own insights. Client-centered theory is always all about the client.
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There is a hopeful view of human nature. Humans crave relationships. They crave to have people care about them unconditionally (Rogers, 2013). There is assumption that client is their own vehicle for self-change. The client is capable of their own growth and is able to take responsibility for it (Brodely, 2006). Client-centered theory gear from within the client, therefore the client in control of their own life it is just the counselor’s place to help them see that. Helping a client see their own capabilities is the main underlying focus of client-centered
There are three major objectives of the therapist, congruence, unconditional positive regard and empathic understanding. Congruence is referring to the inner combination and the wholeness of the counselor (Brodley, 2006). Congruence compels counselors to engage in individual’s own processes and behaviors that will continue to keep the integration of their self. Brodley (2006) stated it is essential to the client’s view of the counselor as authentic and real in communicating empathy understanding and unconditional positive regard. Unconditional positive regard is referring to the counselor’s acceptance, nonjudgmental caring or unreserved approval of the client (Brodley, 2006). It encompasses the counselor in an open-minded acceptance of clients, whatever clients are directly sharing about their own feelings, thoughts or actions (Brodely, 2006). Unconditional positive regard involves taking the person who is not regarding their thoughts or actions, and it contains caring for the client regardless of the client’s variances from the therapist (Rogers, 2015). This approach is expressed in the counselor's presence as personal warmth. “Unconditional positive regard is not communicated explicitly; it is primarily implied by the absence of directions, interventions, and confrontations” stated Brodley in 2006. The client-centered counselor must grow an