Established and grew from the work of Carl Rogers an American psychologist in the 1950’s. It is part of a group of therapeutic approaches known as humanistic therapies. Person-centred therapy focuses on the client as the expert of themself, not the counsellor. This applies equally to couple clients. Effective therapy relies on the quality of the relationship between the therapist and the client. Person-centred therapists work with the client and their natural and instinctive process to recover and heal.

Person-centred counselling has a flexibility that focuses on the individual client and his or her subjective experience or reality. Therefore what is true for that person is indeed true and forms the basis of the therapy. Our past, whatever that has been affects and shapes our life, now and in the future. Sometimes it can be helpful to explore the origins of a particular behaviour, emotional reaction, repeated event or unhealthy relationship. This understanding can bring a freedom to alter, or not any future behaviours, reactions or choices.