Mindfulness Matters: Practices for Counselors and Counselor Education
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Effective counselors employ an array of skills. Carl Rogers (1975) believed that the counselor’s ability to be congruent, accepting, and empathic is necessary for clients to be able to change, and these skills are routinely taught in counselor education. Later in his life, Rogers also articulated the need for a quality of presence that is an essential aspect of client-centered therapy. In an interview published by Baldwin (2000), Rogers referred to the essential nature of presence, of the counselor’s “being”:
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