I am interested in various models and frameworks on forms of relationship essential to the development of a positive therapeutic experience between therapist and client along with the whole interplay of explicit and implicit communication. In the Humanistic approach, Carl Rogers identified a number of necessary and sufficient conditions that are required for therapeutic change to take place. Given time the client begins to trust their own judgment and the need to use the therapist as an emotional support lessens, at this point therapy usually comes to an end.

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It is not uncommon for clients in the real world to appear not to fit so well with counselling theory. We continuously adapt and pace the levels of care, formality, spontaneity, emotionality, challenge, support, self-disclosure, intimacy, control and directiveness we offer. Most of us have at some time or another met a person for the first time and found ourselves either strongly attracted or repelled by them. South-African psychotherapist Petruska Clarkson developed a model of relationship-building that can inform both counselling and supervision relationships. Instead, it emerges within the specific relationship and evolves as we adapt – over time – to the client’s needs and the relational context while they adapt to us.In the context of psychotherapy and indeed in all communication, explicit communication is conveyed in spoken language, and implicit communication in postures and movement, facial expressions like gazing and eye contact and personal mannerisms like playing with the hair or hands.

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These questions around ‘doing’ and ‘being’ all relate to the idea of therapeutic use of self which can be defined as: "A therapist’s thoughtful, deliberate effort to use their self as a tool, one which embodies a self-aware therapeutic way of being in the service of clients and the client-therapist relationship" (Finlay, 2022, p. The therapist is deeply involved, they are not 'acting' and they can draw on their own experiences (self-disclosure) to facilitate the relationship.It is based on the philosophical idea of Intersubjectivity, described by the Merrian Webster Dictionary as "involving or occurring between separate and conscious minds". One of Clarkson's many lasting contributions to the world of psychotherapy is her thesis on human relationships, known as the “The 5 relationship model’. If you need more information on MLA citations check out our MLA citation guide or start citing with the BibGuru MLA citation generator. For me, therapeutic use of self is all about being a human being in relation with another human being.

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Today transference (from the client) and counter-transference (from the therapist), is understood as subconsciously associating a person in the present, with a person from a past relationship.Thinking about this model, consider how you form and sustain your own relationships either personally or professionally. I know from my own work in adult learning the power of non verbal communication in being able to intuit what is happening with clients 1-1, and indeed working with groups of people.

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Given time the client begins to trust their own judgment and the need to use the therapist as an emotional support reduce, at this point therapy usually comes to an end. Having watched the 3 approaches to psychotherapy film in which Rogers, Perls and Ellis work with the same client Gloria , I am struck by the empathy and congruence that Rogers shows in working with Gloria helping her understand that it is the battle within her own internal psyche about her values and what constitutes good and bad that is significant, as much as the anxiety she has about her relationship with her daughter.There are some synergies here with Coaching practice with a contracting process, and examination of presenting versus underlying issues; it leads to my sense that Coaching has beg, stole and borrowed from therapeutic theory!