Person-Centred Counselling in Action Quotes

“Development is not about learning how to counsel but about becoming the kind of person who can counsel.”
― Dave Mearns, Person-Centred Counselling in Action

“The counsellor who never reads a novel or never opens a book of poetry is neglecting an important resource for empathic development.”
― Dave Mearns, Person-Centred Counselling in Action

“Being an effective person-centred counsellor is not so much a matter of possessing skills and knowledge, but of having a particular set of deeply-held values and beliefs and then being able to express these qualities in interactions with other people.”
― John McLeod, Person-Centred Counselling in Action

“a new person in an old life’. This experience is common for clients who have achieved a turnaround in their attitude to their self. Previously they will have built a life around them that reflected their lack of self-acceptance. They may have been self-defeating, over-submissive and under-valuing of their own abilities. When self-acceptance is achieved all these things can now change, but sometimes at the cost of considerable turmoil. Perhaps the client’s relationships at home and at work can be nourished and strengthened by his development but it is possible that these relationships have been founded upon the client being weak.”
― Dave Mearns, Person-Centred Counselling in Action