What is a therapist/client relationship?

What is a therapist/client relationship?

The relationship you build with your therapist creates the foundations for growth, change and the beginning of transformation. Being in a relationship with someone who offers empathy, is genuine and offers an unconditional positive regard is key.
 
The space created in the therapy rooms allows for relaxation, over time less of a guard to protect which means that whatever is being held onto can be acknowledged and explored in your sessions. A space for all sorts of feelings to be experienced, vulnerable like those branches with breaks in, letting go, those fallen leaves the knots in the trunk and feelings of stuck-ness.
 
Rogers, a person-centred counsellor, made connections with a potato. The idea of sending out shoots towards the light as a metaphor for the innate potential for people to grow towards the light themselves.

The more we make sense of this the more likely people are to be able to move towards their own sense of growth, the movement towards light inside and outside of the therapy room. It reminds me of my analogy of a sunflower and what it represents for me and then the sunshine in my logo.

​Can you resonate with this?

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