Person Centred Counselling Essay

In this assignment I am going to explore and discuss the ways in which counselling attempted to address my peers client’s difficulties through Person -Centred counselling.
I am going to commence with my client’s presenting issues, and include any perceived risks. I will also be exploring the client’s presenting issues in relation to Rogers’ personality theory. Following on from this, I am going to discuss how an effective therapeutic alliance was established with my peer, and reflect on how this relationship developed throughout the counselling process. This will include an analysis of the interventions used, and how these interventions impacted my peer client’s responses.
Throughout the therapeutic process my client brought various different
My client explains how important her mother’s opinion of her affects her behaviour, and that her mother will only provide her with positive regard if she behaves in a way her mother is accepting of. This condition has resulted in my client having an external locus of evaluation. Locus of evaluation is the term used to indicate where an individual processes their own value of an object or experience (Rogers, 1959). My client has an external locus as she relies on her mother’s opinion and values and this determines the majority of her behavioural responses. In the fourth session my client utters ‘If I told my mum I would feel so bad’, ‘She wouldn’t receive it well’, and ‘I would be in trouble with my mum’. This becomes clear how my client wants to please her mother and values her opinion. At 31:57 my client expresses how she would feel freer if her mum’s opinion was non-existent. This is followed by ‘I would be more able to do what I want to do, without worrying about what is mum going to say’. This utterance portrays how my client is behaving in a way that she has been conditioned to in order to receive the positive regard from her
In this session she expresses her struggle with passing over the responsibility to another person. This issue was a reflection on an event which happened recently when my client was faced with an ex service user from her previous job who had shown signs of deterioration. My client expressed how she felt intense sadness due to not being able to do anything for this lady to help her. Despite being aware this was not her responsibility she voiced, ‘I felt responsible for her’. This was brought to the session for my client to admit her fear about future client work as a counsellor. This is a condition she has been given that ‘I am only of value if I am helping other people’. This condition of worth comes from her childhood when her father passed away and she was expected to work and earn a living to support herself and her family from a young age.
At the beginning of the session as I approach risk assessment my client explains how her previous risky behaviour is no longer a concern. ‘Assessment is a vital part of the therapeutic process, even though it might be conducted before the ongoing therapy starts’ (Van Rijn, 2015, p14). Risk assessment is an important part of developing a trusting rapport with the client (Wolberg, 1977) and promotes acceptance and empathy. In addition assessment helps to identify what the most beneficial way to move forward in therapy (Bager-Charleson,