Person Centred Therapy

This document examines active listening as a core counselling skill introducing the S.O.L.E.R. framework for non-verbal attention and exploring the three dimensions of listening that enable counsellors to understand clients fully.

This document distinguishes sympathy from empathy in counselling practice exploring how to recognize sympathetic responses and replace them with empathetic approaches that maintain therapeutic focus on the client's experience.

This document explores empathetic understanding as a core counselling skill distinguishing it from sympathy and examining its critical role in the therapeutic relationship, particularly in bereavement counselling contexts.

This document explores the concept of congruence (genuineness) in counselling its importance in the therapeutic relationship, and practical ways counsellors can develop this essential core condition.