Honest Advent: Awakening to the Wonder of God-with-Us Then, Here, and Now

by Scott Erickson

Rogers said that if these attitudes are present in the counselor, quite a number of things will happen in the session: The client will be free to explore their attitudes and feelings more deeply. The client will be able to discover hidden aspects of themselves that they weren’t aware of before. Feeling prized by the counselor, the client will come to a deeper prizing of themselves. (I love this one!) If the client senses a realness in the counselor, they’ll be able to be a little more real within themselves. Feeling that some of their meanings are understood, the client will be more readily available to listen to themselves and their experiences and find some of the meanings they hadn’t been able to catch before. From being disapproving of themselves the client will move to a greater acceptance of themselves.