Skill - Essay Example

Download file to see previous pages Due to the word limit with the essay, I will look into some of the aspects that have been taking place during the therapeutic process. I will also look at the components that have been fundamental for my growth both at a clinical and a personal level. I will highlight and concentrate on the humanistic concepts, tools, and skills that I have learned, experienced, and used during the sessions. I will also refer to some past notions that are now part of my way of being in the therapeutic room. These are embedded in the psychodynamic and existential modalities. I have realized that a very individual a personal approach has been germinating in me. Moreover, I will take into account the important and essential feedback that I have received both from my colleagues and my tutors.
I will concentrate on two of the many sessions that I have played the role of the therapist—in both sessions the client was the same. The client was a well-educated English man in his late twenties who had recently broken up with his girlfriend of five years. Moreover, his father died of cancer two years ago and he was still battling to come to terms with his death. He said he felt overwhelmed by daily responsibilities and called himself a “fixer.”
The relationship between a client and a therapist is for me at the core of the therapeutic process. Carl Rogers, in this Humanistic trimester, has elucidated the importance of the former. From the classical psychoanalysis in which the therapist was seen as the expert in a kind of doctor/patient relationship, one of the Rogerian revolutions was to bring a collaborative and equalitarian rapport that replaced the earlier idea into the therapeutic room. In addition, Rogers’s view on the therapeutic relationship between the client and the therapist was as follows: “If I can provide a certain type of relationship, the other person will discover within himself or herself the ...Download file to see next pagesRead More