I am not actually a counsellor, merely a student who dropped out of a diploma course. I might go back but not to "person-centred". I love it but not the way they teach it.

I mentioned Rogers to give a source for the notion of "unconditional positive regard" though of course Rogers never invented it. He identified it as a therapeutic pre-requisite.

I am a bit bored by Berne's approach (parent, adult, child) though acknowledging that many embrace it and it is valid for many types of client. Egan I greatly respect for a book he wrote called the Skilled Helper, but I don't know much else about him. Fritz Perls I am a bit suspicious of. I have seen a video of his work and have read books about his approach. I think it is rather dangerous!

Personally I think the non-judgemental approach is a very good way to treat all human beings in all circumstances. However I reserve the right to judge God and find him wanting. He is callous, cowardly and responsible for all our suffering. What kind of a God could allow all these religions to proliferate in his name? And he has only himself to blame if I, his creature, have such views about him! But we, mere human beings, can through our own efforts raise ourselves up to have greater love and compassion than our own Creator! Or of course become atheists, which may be the more rational idea. No wonder heretics and unbelievers were burned at the stake in the old days. Violence is the best way to defeat reason in God's world.

It would be great if and when premies realise that they can be much more wonderful human beings than their own "Master".

Have you noticed, PREMIES, that your belief system puts that man always above you? Is that what you want? Or would you rather choose FREEDOM and define your own horizons?