Counseling: An Analysis Of Psychodynamic Approach

Introduction
Counseling may be defined as a therapeutic skill that is used to help solve client’s problems. Also counseling has general principles that emphasize the client goal, relations and interactions. Counseling is the apparatus that is used to help the client to find good within their selves. Counseling is a change or growth in which the people who attend counseling are able to exhibit catharsis in a safe, but also in a supportive and non-judgmental environment. In addition to these attributes counseling services the client with beneficial or appropriate coping skills. In a humanistic approach counseling is practiced to help people to recognize and accept their own internal worth and to be congruent with their self.
Psychotherapy and
The therapy suggested that the incongruent individual, who are always defensive and cannot be open to all experiences, is not functioning ideally and may even be malfunctioning. These types of individuals work hard at maintaining and protecting their self-concept. The theory covers and describes two concepts, which are distortion and denial. Distortion occurs when the individual perceives a threat to their self-concept. They distort the perception until it fits their self-concept and denial happens when the client block out the threating situation altogether. In order for incongruence to be removed there are certain aspects that must take place in the counseling in order for the client to achieve
The major techniques of person centered therapy are focusing, clarification and reflection of feeling (Tosi, 1987). Focusing facilitates the client awareness of their incongruences and allowing them to grasp their feelings in the counseling process. Clarification is when the client becomes aware of their emotion. Reflection is not only mirroring but it also encouragers the client to become deeper involved with their emotion. Roger believed that the goal of person centered lied upon these factors and would have a better progress with the client then any technique. Roger also believed that before a client is able to work toward a goal they must first get back into contacts with themselves by covering their true self up. Once the client uncover their superficial appearance then a person have the opportunity to become self-actualized. During the therapeutic process it became gradually actualized as having an open mind to experiencing, having trust within themselves and an internal foundation of evaluation and willingness to continue to grow (Corey, 2009). The goal of person-centered therapy is for the counselor to encourage these domains for a therapeutic movement. Also person-centered therapy leaves an open concept that gives the therapists the opportunity to add their own style to the person-centered