Counselling is about you, and finding ways to make your life work better.
Ultimately, you are the expert in your life, and your counsellor's job is to help you find ways to make things fit together better.
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change
- Carl Rogers
Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
- Alfred Adler
To my mind, empathy is in itself a healing agent. It is one of the most potent aspects of therapy, because it releases, it confirms, it brings even the most frightened client into the human race.
