The Therapist’s Personality and the Person-Centered Therapy

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Carl Rogers developed and popularized person-centered therapy in the 1940s. Person-centered therapy is given to people suffering from depression and anxiety or with modest mental health problems. This therapy seeks to help the client recognize that a therapist is required to resolve existing problems and, more importantly, a client requires himself more to solve the problems because he knows himself better (Mocan, 2018; Crumb, 2019; Wiryosutomo et al., 2019). Roger believes people are conscious of their attributes, desires, apprehensions, and boundaries. This self-awareness will then assist a client in confronting reality and resolving issues. Person-centered therapy, as a result, focuses on the individual and the individual and his interaction with the world (Mocan, 2018). The therapist's presence and support, on the other hand, are critical for the client to increase self-awareness and cope stronger. Thus, the therapist's role is to be the client's ally in the entire process.
The therapist's role is very crucial in person-centered therapy. Primarily, the success of person-centered therapy is heavily dependent on the therapist. The therapist must provide unconditional positive regard, empathy, and congruence to achieve a desirable outcome from person-centered therapy (Mocan, 2018; Wiryosutomo et al., 2019). These three elements must be present for the client to feel secure, accepted, understood, trusted, and cared for. These situations will also ensure that a client can start increasing self-awareness, which will help him or her resolve issues. Therefore, a therapist's prominent role is to provide an environment that will assist the client in exploring, understanding, accepting, trusting, and healing.
The therapist must provide unconditional positive regard. Unconditional positive regard requires a therapist to accept a client's individuality without conviction and fully support the client. The therapist's method of providing a supportive and conducive environment will assist the client in self-actualization, allowing them to help themselves. Furthermore, this type of environment is advantageous to the therapist as well. The therapist will be able to get to know a client well and learn about the feelings and emotions that the client is suppressing. In this way, the therapist can better understand the client and use the best strategy to help the client. Thus, to let go of hurtful feelings and emotions, a client requires acceptance and validation from others, and a therapist will provide this validation and acceptance by providing unconditional positive regard (Mocan, 2018; Wiryosutomo et al., 2019). In conclusion, therapists' unconditional positive regard is critical in alleviating a client's feelings.
Aside from unconditional positive regard, the therapist must also demonstrate empathy. Empathy can be demonstrated by a therapist fully understanding and accepting the client's decisions, feelings, and individuality. However, the therapist must avoid sympathizing with the...