Person-centred therapy

Person-centred therapy

This is another talking theapy.

It tries to allow the individual themsleves to find the causes of the problem with the therapist 'just' helping them to do so.

The person-centred approach to therapy was suggested by Carl Rodgers, an American in the 1940's. It aims to allow the individual themselves to find their own solutions to the causes of their problems rather than on an 'external solution'.

The therapy assumes that emotional problems evolve as a result of a person’s experience being denied, defined or discounted by others. This is something that happens to lots of people who have a learning disability.