I am impressed with your thorough and accurate understanding of Person-Centred Counselling Chris. Goodness, it is rare to hear a counsellor who actually knows their stuff well. Where did you train and I wonder who your teacher was? Have you read Beyond Carl Rogers? My friend wrote it and he was a close student of Carl's. Best wishes, Michelle.
Ayla, thank you for such a wonderful comment, it means a lot to me. Part of my reason for doing this channel is because I believe that person-centred counselling is often taught with basic knowledge and unfortunately it creates a wide misunderstanding of the approach. I am hoping the channel is a small way of rectifying that. I'm really glad that you received my video in the way that you did, thank you. I haven't read that book actually, but it is on my wish list, hopefully soon! (likely summer when I get my hands on a copy). I trained at UCLAN in Preston with Peter Gubi and Phil Goss but I have to say that most of my learning came after this through reading, exploring, discussions and being involved in the community. As well as being surrounded by wonderfully knowledgeable Person-Centred Counsellors in Brighton, which was part of my reason for moving here! Thanks again for your comment and I hope to get lots more videos up soon. Teaching and client work has just had to take priority lately! All the best, Chris
Hi Quang. Thank you very much for your comment. This sounds interesting. Just so I am completely clear, could you give me an idea of what type of things you would like it to cover (eg theory, the counselling sessions, therapeutic process etc). Just want to get a clear picture of what your suggestion is because I’m intrigued!!! 🧐
@@ChrisTheCounsellor I think I would like to know what will happen in counselling sessions from the very beginning (how clients contact the counsellor, what they have to fill in, what counsellor need to know in advance about the client, how the counsellor arrange the meeting, etc.) and then what actually happens between the client and the counsellor (in general, what clients often share, what counsellor often do, when and how the change occurs, etc.) to the end (how the counselling relationship ends, what clients often say, what counsellor often do to terminate, etc.) Looking forward for your videos.
@@ngocquang0329 Great idea! Leave it with me and I will see what I can do. It may be in sections but I would like to cover the Counselling process in more details - beginning, middle and end. Thanks for the suggestions!!
@@ChrisTheCounsellor Hi Chris I am doing a Diploma in Counselling, just started year 1. I have an essay on the six stages and I can say that you are so good at simplifying it for me to understand what I am doing. Thank you so much and I enjoy watching your videos. Alpha
''Experience in the world'' Does this mean ''self-image, ideal-self, real-self combined. This is our experience? So the self- concept and our experience in the world moves apart because of incongruence?
Good question! Our experience in the world is just basically everything that we experience and feel. However, as you rightly allude to, these things can be influenced and affected by things like our self-concept, conditions of worth, introjections etc. We may have a congruent reaction to things we experience (our OVP), but this can then be altered by things like our self-concept, where we may deny or distort our experience to fit how we see ourselves. An outcome of PC Therapy is often that our OVP and self-concept actually become more inline and overlap, so that we are more able to be in touch with our congruent responses to experience. I hope that helps and if anything else needs clarifying, just let me know.
you explained it very well..better than my teachers. your explaining skills are remarkable. keep posting more stuff , it really help students like us, cheers
Hi Raheena, thank you so much for the generous comment and feedback, I really appreciate it and glad that it has been helpful for you. More videos coming very soon hopefully! Chris
i love watching your videos and you make it so easy to understand, your demeaner is also very friendly and engaging. I am a counselling psychologist in training and am still figuring out what approach to focus on, can I be a person centered therapist and still borrow techniques from other approaches depending on the client I am dealing with?
Thank you so much for the lovely words, that’s very nice to read. You may find this video helpful in response to your question - ua-cam.com/video/_K-UJlln8Dk/v-deo.html
Thanks for this lovely summary! I don't suppose you could point to where Rogers talks about the core conditions in personal relationships? You mentioned this at the end of the video and didn't give a source, which would be very useful.
Hi, thanks for the comment. You should be able to find some information around this in - Rogers R (1957) ‘The Necessary and Sufficient Conditions of Therapeutic Personality Change’, Journal of Consulting Psychology, Vol. 21, pp 95-103 (this can also be found reprinted in many Carl Rogers books, online or in the Carl Rogers Reader) - hope that helps, Chris
You explained this so well. I love this approach although sometimes I feel I could borrow a couple of interventions from other approaches. Please post more videos! It is also my hope that you are a teacher/lecturer because you are doing a very fabulous job, making these concepts, plain to use! Subscribed! :)
Thanks for the kind comment and sub. Yes, many people would also work in this way but it can also get into interesting territory about how feasible it is to integrate other approaches and still call ourselves person-centred. Good to know where you stand on it though and thanks for stopping by
Good question! This is often used as a criticism towards person-centred counselling, but it is actually quite easily answered within the theory. Firstly, the experiences and conditionality that we have when growing up can have a huge influence on our behaviour and self-concept. This in turn can influence the ways that we exist in the world and respond to situations (as well as how we feel about ourselves) and so these all have a huge influence on how we deal with things. For some people, they may feel that being self-destructive, or even dying, is the best way that they can deal with whatever they are facing. This links to the actualising tendency, which you may get more answer answers from in the video where I explore this. There is lots to say on this question and a lot more nuance to explore and discuss, but I hope that this goes some way to answering that and if you need anything else, just let me know!
Thanks so much Luna. I am sorry that I haven't responded to this comment earlier, for some reason, I have only just been notified of it! Really appreciate the comment on the avatar, I'm quite fond of it myself!! I will add immediacy to the list of suggested videos and try and come up with something for you. Thanks for your support and comment
You are a LIFE SAVER.
Lovely comment to receive, thank you!
writing an essay on the six conditions and this helped me a lot! thank-you for summarising them in an understanding way
So glad to read that Jasmina :) thank you for stopping by and leaving your comment. Good luck with the essay!! Chris
I am impressed with your thorough and accurate understanding of Person-Centred Counselling Chris. Goodness, it is rare to hear a counsellor who actually knows their stuff well. Where did you train and I wonder who your teacher was? Have you read Beyond Carl Rogers? My friend wrote it and he was a close student of Carl's. Best wishes, Michelle.
Ayla, thank you for such a wonderful comment, it means a lot to me. Part of my reason for doing this channel is because I believe that person-centred counselling is often taught with basic knowledge and unfortunately it creates a wide misunderstanding of the approach. I am hoping the channel is a small way of rectifying that. I'm really glad that you received my video in the way that you did, thank you.
I haven't read that book actually, but it is on my wish list, hopefully soon! (likely summer when I get my hands on a copy). I trained at UCLAN in Preston with Peter Gubi and Phil Goss but I have to say that most of my learning came after this through reading, exploring, discussions and being involved in the community. As well as being surrounded by wonderfully knowledgeable Person-Centred Counsellors in Brighton, which was part of my reason for moving here!
Thanks again for your comment and I hope to get lots more videos up soon. Teaching and client work has just had to take priority lately! All the best, Chris
you made it easy to understand. thankyou❤
Really glad to read that! Thank you
Hi Chris, I hope that you will make a video about the process of person-centred counselling from the beginning to the end. Thank you
Hi Quang. Thank you very much for your comment. This sounds interesting. Just so I am completely clear, could you give me an idea of what type of things you would like it to cover (eg theory, the counselling sessions, therapeutic process etc). Just want to get a clear picture of what your suggestion is because I’m intrigued!!! 🧐
@@ChrisTheCounsellor I think I would like to know what will happen in counselling sessions from the very beginning (how clients contact the counsellor, what they have to fill in, what counsellor need to know in advance about the client, how the counsellor arrange the meeting, etc.) and then what actually happens between the client and the counsellor (in general, what clients often share, what counsellor often do, when and how the change occurs, etc.) to the end (how the counselling relationship ends, what clients often say, what counsellor often do to terminate, etc.) Looking forward for your videos.
@@ngocquang0329 Great idea! Leave it with me and I will see what I can do. It may be in sections but I would like to cover the Counselling process in more details - beginning, middle and end. Thanks for the suggestions!!
@@ChrisTheCounsellor Hi Chris I am doing a Diploma in Counselling, just started year 1. I have an essay on the six stages and I can say that you are so good at simplifying it for me to understand what I am doing.
Thank you so much and I enjoy watching your videos.
Alpha
Very clear presentation.
Thanks Martin :)
''Experience in the world'' Does this mean ''self-image, ideal-self, real-self combined. This is our experience? So the self- concept and our experience in the world moves apart because of incongruence?
Good question! Our experience in the world is just basically everything that we experience and feel. However, as you rightly allude to, these things can be influenced and affected by things like our self-concept, conditions of worth, introjections etc. We may have a congruent reaction to things we experience (our OVP), but this can then be altered by things like our self-concept, where we may deny or distort our experience to fit how we see ourselves. An outcome of PC Therapy is often that our OVP and self-concept actually become more inline and overlap, so that we are more able to be in touch with our congruent responses to experience. I hope that helps and if anything else needs clarifying, just let me know.
Thank you for sharing the knowledge. You have explained in a simple and easy to understand way
That's so lovely to read and so glad it was helpful. Thanks for stopping by and leaving your comment :)
Thanks Chris. This is a good summary. I'll let students studying with me know.
Thanks so much John, that’s great to read and really appreciate it. I have fond memories of teaching at Edge Hill 😍
you explained it very well..better than my teachers. your explaining skills are remarkable. keep posting more stuff , it really help students like us, cheers
Hi Raheena, thank you so much for the generous comment and feedback, I really appreciate it and glad that it has been helpful for you. More videos coming very soon hopefully! Chris
@@ChrisTheCounsellor you are welcome, love from Pakistan
i love watching your videos and you make it so easy to understand, your demeaner is also very friendly and engaging. I am a counselling psychologist in training and am still figuring out what approach to focus on, can I be a person centered therapist and still borrow techniques from other approaches depending on the client I am dealing with?
Thank you so much for the lovely words, that’s very nice to read. You may find this video helpful in response to your question - ua-cam.com/video/_K-UJlln8Dk/v-deo.html
good
Thanks for this lovely summary! I don't suppose you could point to where Rogers talks about the core conditions in personal relationships? You mentioned this at the end of the video and didn't give a source, which would be very useful.
Hi, thanks for the comment. You should be able to find some information around this in - Rogers R (1957) ‘The Necessary and Sufficient Conditions of Therapeutic Personality Change’, Journal of Consulting Psychology, Vol. 21, pp 95-103 (this can also be found reprinted in many Carl Rogers books, online or in the Carl Rogers Reader) - hope that helps, Chris
Excellent stuff
Thanks Frank!
You explained this so well. I love this approach although sometimes I feel I could borrow a couple of interventions from other approaches. Please post more videos! It is also my hope that you are a teacher/lecturer because you are doing a very fabulous job, making these concepts, plain to use! Subscribed! :)
Thanks for the kind comment and sub. Yes, many people would also work in this way but it can also get into interesting territory about how feasible it is to integrate other approaches and still call ourselves person-centred. Good to know where you stand on it though and thanks for stopping by
What would Carl Rogers say of people who are living very self-destructive lives because they want to die?
Good question! This is often used as a criticism towards person-centred counselling, but it is actually quite easily answered within the theory. Firstly, the experiences and conditionality that we have when growing up can have a huge influence on our behaviour and self-concept. This in turn can influence the ways that we exist in the world and respond to situations (as well as how we feel about ourselves) and so these all have a huge influence on how we deal with things. For some people, they may feel that being self-destructive, or even dying, is the best way that they can deal with whatever they are facing. This links to the actualising tendency, which you may get more answer answers from in the video where I explore this.
There is lots to say on this question and a lot more nuance to explore and discuss, but I hope that this goes some way to answering that and if you need anything else, just let me know!
This was fab Chris. Could you do something on immediacy, with possibly some examples. Thanks Chris. I love your little avatar, it's well cute. Cheers
Thanks so much Luna. I am sorry that I haven't responded to this comment earlier, for some reason, I have only just been notified of it! Really appreciate the comment on the avatar, I'm quite fond of it myself!! I will add immediacy to the list of suggested videos and try and come up with something for you. Thanks for your support and comment
This summarising is very informative and the explanation very very clear. Thank you sir
Thanks for the comment Esther and so glad it helped!
Hi Chris, your videos help me a lot with my psychology studies. This one's been great for my person-centred therapy process report. Thank you!
So glad!! Thanks for the comment
Thanks, Chris, these are very helpful!
Thanks Yana, much appreciated
Thank you Chris. This breaks it down nicely.
Glad it was helpful. Thanks for the comment :)
Thanks! Have a better understanding of my homework!
Glad to read it Moseleen! Thanks for stopping by and the comment
I have a paper today and if this is in it... I will get a good score... Thanks
Good luck!!
@@ChrisTheCounsellor Thank you Chris
Would you do one on the Nineteen Propositions?
Hi Yana, yes I plan to do this soon, but I think it will be quite an undertaking!! Hopefully in the next few weeks.
This is profound, as a Counselling Psychologist this is very helpful
The three part series on the 19 propositions is now uploaded! Enjoy :)
Brilliant
Thanks Nelam :)
This is very helpful...
Thank you for explaining in such manner
You are very welcome and thank you for the comment