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Therapy role-play · PCT
Also written Person-Centered Counseling
Every therapy stands on the same ground: listening well, reflecting accurately, and bringing empathy, warmth and genuineness into the room. This track lets you practise those basic counselling skills (the microskills) and Rogers’ core conditions before you take on any specific protocol.
Why this therapy
In every kind of therapy, a strong working relationship with the client, the therapeutic alliance, predicts better results (Flückiger et al., 2018). Person-centred counselling and the core listening skills are how you build it: empathy, warmth, genuineness, and reflections that land. New counsellors tend to ask question after question, and to reach for advice in the first few minutes. Both feel like helping. Both leave the client unheard.
Each protocol follows its published treatment model, and so does your feedback.
Simulated clients are a training aid. They do not replace supervised work with real clients.
Each one is reviewed in your debrief, with one concrete thing to try next time.
Attend fully, and show the client you have heard them before you do anything else.
Catch the content and the feeling, accurately and briefly. Repeating the client’s words back is not a reflection; find the feeling under them.
Understand the client’s world from inside their frame of reference, including the parts you would see differently.
Invite the client to say more, without leading them. A run of closed, factual questions turns the session into history-taking.
Leave space for the client to think and feel. Count to five before you speak.
Offer acceptance without judgement, and be a real person rather than play the counsellor.
Point to a gap between what the client says and what they do, in a way they can say no to, and without losing warmth.
The same client carries across modes. Start where you feel comfortable, then stretch.
Each client comes with a history, a presentation and measures. Read the referral as you would on placement, then begin.
The client responds to how you work. Make your mistakes here, where they cost nothing; hints come only if you ask for them.
A clear debrief on the core skills of your model (the CTS-R for CBT). Then take any one skill into a focused drill and work on it until it holds.
Yes. It is the foundation track for students starting out, and a refresher for anyone further on.
The three therapist qualities among Rogers’ six conditions for therapeutic change (1957): empathy, unconditional positive regard (warmth) and congruence (genuineness).
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