person centred counselling - any experience?

[AuntieMaggie]

I'm having counselling at the moment and apparently the approach the counsellor is using is person centred counselling - does anyone have any experience of this and how I can get the most out of it? at the moment I'm struggling to see how it helps anymore that talking to a mate.

I wonder...personally I think of being person centred as an approach or philosophy. This can be combined with other school & methodology & be more effective in my opinion.

I don't think it's working. One of the things I wanted was to be able to cope with my feelings better and not become so overwhelmed by them so although it's 'nice' to have the time to talk about my issues it's not really giving me any way of managing things between sessions.

May be try someone else. Sometimes you have to try a few people before you get a fit. Happy to help if I can & don't want to out myself. Pm me if you want.