In these three sessions, this will allow Rona to express and experience her feelings
helping her to believe she is allowing her to become self aware of her problems and engage in
self resolutions to those problems. The focus is on the client, these sessions should involve open
adaptations for Rona, as long as she have expressed the need for an alternative solution to her
treatment. The therapist should be knowledgeable and skilled in the techniques even if another
situation arises and needs a more direct approach.
In this case study, any adaptations in this approach are made only after client’s
suggestion. The therapist first priority still rest on the person centered approach. According to
Knight (2007), the therapist continues to respect and trust their inner processes of the client
valuing the client’s own journey by not presenting any specifics that reflects anything other than
the client’s view (pg. 113).
Cultural Considerations
Rona is a 45 year old woman who was once married and now divorce. She was raised in
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a rural environment where her parents felt the need for her to be like other kids in that
community. Rona’s livelihood may or may not be an appropriate “fit” for the person centered
approach. Traditionally speaking, this approach may be unacceptable for client that are
looking/wanting immediate answers and help from professionals. Personally, in a more effective
perspective, I do believe that cultural barriers can bring on strong obstacles for a person. I hope
that may information above demonstrated my point of view efficiently.
Strengths and Limitations
Carl Rogers was a spokesperson for the humanistic psychology (Corey, 2017). He
believed of a non-directive method for his clients. The method provided core beliefs of human
growth and personality (Kirschenbaum, 2004). Rogers later identified the person centered
approach which he established three key conditions: 1) accept the client as he or she is, as a
person of inherent worth possessing both positive and negative feelings and impulses, 2)
empathy is when the therapist engages in willingness and sensitivity to understand their client’s
thoughts,feelings, and struggles from the client’s point of view, 3) last is to provide congruence
to be genuine, be authentic, real, or congruent in the client-counselor relationship
(Kirschenbaum, 2004).
Carl Rogers daughter Natalie took a in-depth look at her father’s person centered
approach. She discussed how adopting her father’s philosophical method has taught her to trust
her own “self” helping her to connect through the artistic side of the theoretical approach,
helping to see and trust herself openly, and taking advantage of her self growth and her capacity
to achieve her potential goals. Natalie created what is called “creative connection” which process
the clients or group member to access their inner feelings through an uninterrupted sequence of
movement, sound, visual art, and journal writing (Corey, 2017).
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Using the person centered therapy approach correctly also depends on the therapists
involved with the client. Dealing with any client from a difficult background or any issues while
