Articles For Practitioners

This page brings together all current articles for practitioners who are interested in person-centred counselling perspectives of motherhood. These articles come under the themes of Person-Centred Perspectives on Motherhood and Mothering in Context.

The theme of Person-Centred Perspectives on Motherhood looks at motherhood through a person-centred framework. Articles look at motherhood in relation to key aspects of the PCA, including the core conditions, conditions of worth and the actualising tendency. We also look at motherhood in therapist training and person-centred literature.

The theme of Mothering in Context broadens the theoretical framework a little to look at motherhood from feminist, historical and cultural perspectives.

Current Articles:

  • Mothering and The Person-Centred Approach: A Beautiful Match

    Mothering and The Person-Centred Approach: A Beautiful Match

    My introduction to the PCA was through motherhood. Before I trained as a person-centred therapist, I trained as a breastfeeding counsellor with the National Childbirth Trust and this training was…

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  • A Therapist Reflects

    A Therapist Reflects

    This is the creative piece written as the final stage of the heuristic research I undertook for my MA dissertation. The research examined the invisibility of mothering in the Person-Centred…

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