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Theoritical Approches to Counseling
The Counselor-Centered Approach
andExistential Counseling
The Counselor-Centered Approach
• Directive or Clinical Counseling• Developed by E.G Williamson (1996)• This approach often sees the counselor as a
teacher who directs the learning process. • Directive counselors stress assessment and
diagnosis as a fundamental counselor function.
• Certain techniques or responses are generally regarded as off limits to all counselors, irrespective orientation such as:
Moral judgmentUndue probingThreatening, badgering, and extracting promisesPromoting one’s one biasesExtolling the virtues of any POVs, or soliciting
interest has no place in counseling.
Existentialism
• People form their lives by the choices they make (Kemp,
1971).
• Existentialist focus on this freedom of choice and the action
that goes with it.
• They view people as the author of their lives.
“The meaning of life never changes but it never ceases to be.”-Frank
According to them, the meaning of life can be discovered in three ways:
A. By doing a deal
B. By experiencing a value
C.By suffering
• The relationship with the client is the most
powerful and effective techniques existential
counselors have.
• The emphasis in the
relationship is on
authenticity, honesty
and spontaneity.
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