Client-centered therapy, also known as person-centered therapy, was developed by Carl Rogers in the 1940s-1950s. It is a nondirective approach where the client takes an active role in treatment and the therapist provides empathy, genuineness, and unconditional positive regard. The goal is to help clients resolve incongruences and fully accept themselves so they can better understand and express their feelings, lower defensiveness, and develop more positive relationships. The therapist listens without judgment and helps the client gain self-awareness and autonomy through the therapeutic process.

1. Client-
Centered
Therapy

2. Client- Centered Therapy
Also known as person-
centered therapy or Rogerian
therapy is an approach to
counseling that requires the
client to take an active role in
his or her treatment with
therapist being nondirective
and supportive.

3. Carl Rogers
January 8, 1902- February 4, 1987
A humanist thinker ;
believe that people are
fundamentally good.
He developed the client-
centered during 1940’s
and 1950’s.

4. Rogers believe people are capable
of self- healing and personal
growth, which leads to self-
actualization, an important concept
in client- centered therapy.

5. How does Client- Centered
Therapy works?
 The primary objective of the
therapy is to resolve the
incongruence of the clients to
help them able to accept and
be themselves.

6. How does Client- Centered
Therapy works?
Purpose of the therapy:
1.Foster a closer agreement between
the client’s idealized and actual
selves; better understanding.
2.Lower levels of defensiveness, guilt,
and insecurity.

7. How does Client- Centered
Therapy works?
3. Foster more positive and
comfortable relationship with others
and increased capacity to
experience and express feelings as
they occur.

8. How does Client- Centered
Therapy works?
Concept on “Self”
1. “Self is an outgrowth of what a
person experience and awareness
of self helps a person differentiate
him/her from others.”
2. “Real Self” and “Ideal Self”
3. Positive Regard

9. Main
Components
Empathy
Showing
emotional
understanding
and sensitivity
Congruence
refers to
therapist’s
openness and
genuineness;
willingness to
relate to clients.
Unconditional
Positive Regard
Therapist
accepts clients
totally for who
he or she is.

10. Six Conditions required for Therapeutic
Change
Therapist Client Psychological Contact
Client Congruence
Therapist Congruence
Therapist Unconditional positive regard
Therapist emphatic understanding
Client Perception

11. Process of Therapy
Clients trusts new experiences and relates to others openly
Clients expresses feelings in present
Client expresses feelings freely
Clients accept own feelings
Client talks about self as an object in terms of past
experiences
Client describes feelings but do not recognizes them
Client talk about external part of self

12. Therapy
Techniques
Listening
Accepting
RespectingUnderstanding
Responding

13. C. H Patterson
• Cecil Holden Patterson
• Born in Lynn, Massachusetts on June 22,
1912
• 1938: Bachelor’s degree in Sociology
(University of Chicago)
• 1955: Ph. D in Psychology 9Univesity of
Minnesota)
• Professor of Psychology at the University of
Illinios
• She died on May 26, 2006

14. C. H Patterson
1. Understanding the client
2. Respecting the client
3. Genuineness
4. Specify rather than Generality

15. C. H Patterson
The client is the initiator of every
process made.
Counselor must be active, but not in a
directive or controlling way.
Counselors do not take responsibility
away from client

16. C. H Patterson
Counselor must help clients be more
assertive
Counselor must maintain respect and
care for the client
Get the clients be involved in obtaining
their own decisions