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‘People (often) don’t need help. They need love. Acceptance’ Monica Cassani

Posted on June 12, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

https://beyondmeds.com/2017/06/10/people-dont-need-help/ Click on the above link to visit Monica Cassani’s superb resource site: http://www.beyondmeds.com This post describes person-centred in a nutshell, and is what we seek to offer at this service: holding loving space for a person as they explore … Continue reading →

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Person-centred basics: expertise of the person-centred counsellor – Dave Mearns & Brian Thorne

Posted on October 22, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

The fourth in our occasional series of person-centred fundamentals. ‘The person-centred counsellor must learn to wear her expertise as an invisible garment in order to be an effective counsellor. Experts are expected to dispense their expertise, to recommend what should … Continue reading →

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Ron Unger – Radical uncertainty: a healing stance for all

Posted on July 21, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://beyondmeds.com/2015/07/19/radical-uncertainty/ Gratitude to Ron and to http://www.beyondmeds.com for this interesting post. The psychiatric paradigm defines (and invites us to define) our distress or disturbance as ‘illness’ in need of ‘treatment’. Ron argues this thereby precludes the most effective healing agent … Continue reading →

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The Drugs Don’t Work, and Bipolar Disorder is the Proof – Chrys Muirhead

Posted on January 17, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.madinamerica.com/2013/08/the-drugs-dont-work-and-bipolar-disorder-is-the-proof/ Interesting personal perspective from Chrys Muirhead on Mad in America. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter

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Yalom on Diagnostic Labels

Posted on January 14, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘The standard diagnostic formulation tells the therapist nothing about the unique person he or she is encountering; and there is substantial evidence that diagnostic labels impede or distort listening.’ Irvin Yalom: Existential Psychotherapy Yes, Yalom’s comment is daily evidenced in … Continue reading →

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Carl Rogers on the term ‘client’

Posted on November 18, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘Client-Centered Therapy DR: In respect to client-centered therapy, I thought I would start with a series of questions on the terminology you devised for your theories. When did you decide to use the term client, rather than patient? CR: I … Continue reading →

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The Real Reason we Dig ourselves into Holes – Fae Leslie

Posted on November 10, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.elephantjournal.com/2014/11/the-real-reason-we-dig-ourselves-into-holes/ Click on the link for this profound and hopeful post in Elephant Journal by Fae Leslie, about the pit, what trauma was for her, and about not feeling safe in her body. One of the things we often find … Continue reading →

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Carl Rogers – The Client Knows

Posted on October 15, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried.’ Carl Rogers: On Becoming A Person 1961 Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter

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Counselling as effective as CBT for ‘depression’: Research evidence

Posted on March 30, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Counselling as effective as CBT for ‘depression’: Research evidence Thank you, Carol Wolter-Gustafson, Jo Hilton and The Society for Humanistic Psychology, Division 32’s Facebook page for this link. Click on the title to go to Carol’s post. Or here is … Continue reading →

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