Peggy Natiello authored "The Person-Centered Approach: A passionate presence" as a challenge to those who practice the person-centered approach "to recognize and fully engage the philosophical belief system, the passionate style of living and the integrity that person-centeredness demands." Her challenge extends to both therapists working one to one and those who would enter the encounter group experience.
Relational Depth: A quantitative researcher's perspective Welcome to our series on relational depth. In this interview Sue Wiggins talks about her experience as a researcher of relational Depth and
Therapy Today writes that, "'The book represents a 'gentle revolution'. The gentleness comes from its lack of stridency and from its inclusiveness, and the radical quality is that person-centred therapy in particular, and all therapeutic work in general, cannot be the same again'"
Sue Wilders has strongly critiqued the propositions set out in the book Working at Relational Depth in Counselling and Psychotherapy written by Dave Mearns and Mick Cooper, a text that was met with wide acclaim in the field of counselling and psychotherapy, engaging with an experience recognised by many practitioners as both transformative for the client and deeply meaningful for the therapist.
Colin Lago Temenos Conference 2011
Is 'Person-Centred Leadership' an oxymoron?
A Way of Being outside the therapy room? Exploring the potential of the person-centred approach in a wider context.
Sue takes a passionately relational approach to working with anger and feels strongly that some of the more traditional approaches to working with anger and violence are not helpful and may even be traumatising to the client.
Following our interview with John McLeod we interviewed his co-author, Mick Cooper, about the pluralist approach to therapy set out in their new book titled "Pluralistic Counselling and Psychotherapy"
A pluralistic perspective challenges traditional views of therapy and the training of therapists in ways that are thought-provoking and inspiring. The interview is an opportunity to hear directly from John McLeod about his journey into this work and his current thinking.
Motivational Interviewing has been extensively used in working with addiction and is widely known as an effective intervention in this kind of work. Buck has taken this technique and used it successfully in his work with a wide range of clients in his face to face and online practice. Buck describes his use of this technique as closely aligned to the person centred approach while giving both the therapist and client a framework to use in their working alliance.
Sandra Grieve and Lucia Berdondini are currently delivering the COSCA Certificate in Counselling Skills, on behalf of Strathclyde University, to a group of students in Afghanistan.
Will Stillwell was a colleague of Carl Rogers and is Co-Director of the La Jolla Program, a 43 year old residential program for individuals which is still following in the client centered/person centered tradition associated with Carl Rogers. Will works in organisations as a coach to individuals, facilitator to groups & mediator in conflict situations.
This is an important, but often neglected area of Person Centred Counselling. There is very little theoretical writing which is exclusively person centred, on this subject. This presentation is unashamedly person-centred and will focus on PCA theory as it is applied to couples work.
