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About the Project
Before I was a therapist, I was a mother, and before I was a mother, I created educational websites for a UK university. This website brings together these three roles…
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What is Person-Centred Therapy?
Person-Centred Therapy was developed by psychologist Carl Rogers in the 1950s. It is also known as the Person-Centred Approach, or PCA, because it can also be applied to many other…
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Maternal Congruence
A common theme in my dissertation interviews was the struggle to find congruence as a mother. The women I spoke to talked about the challenges of caring deeply for their…
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What is Authentic Mothering?
If living authentically is challenging, then living an authentic life once we become mothers can be even harder. If you are a mum, you have probably noticed how much pressure…
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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
From: Mothering in ContextThis 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…
