A person-centred approach comes from the idea that the therapy client is the most important person in any therapy relationship! That might sound like an obvious statement, but it helps to guide how we work together. It’s important because what can happen with CBT, sometimes, is that the structure and techniques can take priority over your direct experience. And that’s usually not helpful.
Your therapy should be as unique as you are. By focusing on you as a person, and listening to you fully, we can create a treatment plan that fully addresses your issues, needs, and goals. This approach also helps us to continually check-in with how we are progressing, and what’s important to you. I want CBT to be effective and relevant to your life, and a personalised, person-centred approach helps that to happen.
A person-centred approach to therapy also prioritises empathy and understanding. Again, in some approaches to CBT, all the structures and techniques can seem kind of robotic, and it doesn’t always leave space for everything you might be feeling. By allowing space for feelings, we can make use of all of the amazing techniques of CBT, but we’ll be more confident that we’re moving in the right direction because we’ve taken the time to really understand what’s going on for you, together.
By taking a person-centred approach to CBT, we can offer a more flexible approach that meets you where you are. It helps us to work together in a way that adapts to your changing needs, and make real and lasting positive changes.
