Deep Dive: PCE Therapy Program, Personal Growth and Reflection

This assignment presents a student's reflective analysis of a Person-Centred Experiential (PCE) therapy program. The student begins by outlining their motivations for embarking on the program, emphasizing the desire to facilitate personal growth and address the negative impacts of past experiences. They define PCE therapy, highlighting its humanistic-existential roots and the importance of self-motivation and actualization. The student then connects the PCE approach to their own personality and experiences, showcasing their open nature, willingness to learn, and ability to build healthy relationships. They explore the emotional demands of the program, acknowledging the need for therapists to maintain emotional balance and provide understanding to clients. The student assesses their strengths and weaknesses as a helper, recognizing the importance of empathy and the limitations of their influence. They also discuss their understanding of personal development within the program, emphasizing its potential to enhance their personality and achieve their goals. The assignment concludes with the student's understanding of 'therapeutic use of self,' expectations for learning to become a therapist, and anticipated personal changes by the program's end. Finally, the student reflects on their commitment to the training.

Assessment

Table of Contents
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
Please consider and describe, your reason for wanting to embark on this programme at this
time in your life...........................................................................................................................1
Please tell us about understanding of Person Centred Experiential (PCE) therapy....................1
Please write in detail about the ways in which PEC approaches relates to your own personality
and experiences............................................................................................................................2
Please tell us what you think the emotional demands of this programme will be for you
personally.....................................................................................................................................2
Please tell us about your strengths and weaknesses as a helper..................................................2
Please tell us what is your understanding of personal development is within the programme.. .3
Please tell us what you understand by the term ‘therapeutic use of self’....................................3
Please describe your understanding or expectations of the way which you will learn to become
a therapist.....................................................................................................................................4
Please describe how you expect to have changed as a person by the end of this programme.....4
What are your thoughts about making such a deep personal commitment to training to
becomes a PCE therapist?............................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

MAIN BODY
Please consider and describe, your reason for wanting to embark on this programme at this time
in your life.
In some way or the other every individual is motivated by them and wishes to achieve their full
potential according to their abilities and to be flourishing as a human being. The people are open
and always keen to learn new things about themselves and move forward in their life. But it is
dependent on their surroundings and experiences which is very unusual for people to hold a
balanced to social environment. This is the reason which motivates me and why I want to
embark on this program as I believe that counselling offers an opportunity to people for reduce
the damaging effects of their past relationships and experiences along with facilitating them with
new personal growth and development.
Please tell us about understanding of Person Centred Experiential (PCE) therapy.
Person Centred Experiential (PCE) therapy is included in group of therapies and are
based on humanistic-existential psychology. The idea behind the approach is that people are self-
motivated and encouraged in order to attain their goals and function positively if all the
conditions in their lives are supportive and in their favour. This theory was given by the Carl
Roger who was a psychotherapist and a writer; he gave two books on the same and worked a lot
in the field of education (Murphy and Joseph, 2019). Carl Roger was nominated for Nobel peace
prize for his contribution to the world of psychology. He is still considered as one of the most
influential psychologists of all time and many for the psychologists take him as their inspiration.
The main idea behind Person Centred Experiential (PCE) therapy is that it is a theory of
actualising tendency. It states that people are self-motivated in order to be most potential and live
life as a successful human being or individual. These kind of persons who are encouraged
themselves are always open and eager to learn new things in their lives, they will be very excited
to learn and explore more things about themselves, take their responsibilities and of their actions.
Along with it such individuals are able to build effective and healthy relationships with the
people around them. Overall such self-motivated and encouraged individuals or human being are
very active and wishes to learn new things regularly (Sutanti, 2019). They wish to explore new
developments in themselves and work on it for achieving a positively psychological functioning.
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Please write in detail about the ways in which PEC approaches relates to your own personality
and experiences.
Person Centred Experiential (PCE) therapy is related to the behaviour of individual of
being motivated by themselves, take responsibilities of their actions and build close relationships
with others. This approach is related to me and me as a human being in a way because I am also,
of a open nature and keep myself motivated (Nye and et. al., 2019). In my past experiences in my
job role I have learned many new things out of which some of them are pre-existed in me and
few of them are developed or the results of my regular learning attitude. I am willing to work
with approach of regular learning and open mind. I am always willing to learn new things and be
motivated which helped me in developing new skills and talents within myself and that
ultimately helped me move forward in my career. My personality was positively affected by the
implication of this approach I made connections with new people, developed healthy relationship
with them and took many good steps in my personal and professional life (Murphy, 2019). This
approach fit me and my personality, as I am a regular learner, takes all responsibility of my
action either personal or professional and is create healthy relationships with everyone who is
around me which keep the work environment positive and safe.
Please tell us what you think the emotional demands of this programme will be for you
personally.
According to me personally I think that the program is person centric and about building a
relationship between the client and the therapist. Therefore it is very important for a therapist to
be emotionally very strong and do not gets carry away from the session with the individual in
their person emotions. I think that the therapist needs to be very strong emotionally and keep
there a balance between understanding the situation and state of the person for providing them
that are solutions and understanding their current environment. The therapist should be very
balance with their emotions as you provide them an understanding of the situation through which
declined is suffering accordingly provide them a appropriate solution so that they can move
towards personal development growth and flourishing better life.
Please tell us about your strengths and weaknesses as a helper.
A helper is a individual who helps others in their lives to move forward and remove any bad
influences on their life so that they can attend the desired objectives. Helper can be any person
the relative of individual or their friends for their parents their siblings and professional helper
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who can be a therapist. The strength of a helper is that they personally know the individual or by
time create an understanding about them they can easily provide person solutions about their
problems which are effective and helpful for them for the whole life. Strength of a helper is that
he or she is very flexible and open with the person and accept their problems with a open minded
thinking rather than judging them on their personal issues and making them feel more complex.
The strength is gained by helper with a lot of practice and foremost a lot of understanding and
experiences of different people by helping them and by genuinely caring for them. But weakness
of a helper is they can only help individual to a particular extent once an individual do not want
to help themselves then a therapist or a helper cannot influence them for leading a better life by
keeping their problems aside. Weakness of a helper can also related to some analytical and
professional skills because sometimes the problem of an individual is more needed to be solved
by a professional rather than an individual who do not hold any skills to do so and therefore it
becomes a weakness of a helper if they are not dealt with those professional skills.
Please tell us what is your understanding of personal development is within the programme.
Personal development is considered as an productive activity where people make efforts to
develop their personality and move further in their lives towards their desired goals and
objectives. Development is of two types one way the individual develops their personality for
moving forward in their careers by learning more professional skills and abilities on the other
hand second type of personal development is when people develop their personalities to become
a better person and lead a better life. Therefore, i believe that this counselling programme is one
the most potential and beneficial counselling programme through which individuals can
personally develop and enhance themselves for moving towards that desires and goals in better
manner by removing the reflection of their bad past experiences and relationships.
Please tell us what you understand by the term ‘therapeutic use of self’.
A therapeutic use of self basically refers to a self care individual who provides and use verbal
and nonverbal communication, emotional exchange and other related aspects of his or her
personality to establish a relationship with the patients that promotes corporation and healings. In
other words a therapeutic use of self is basically a technique which is used by psychotherapist
where they make use of oneself in such a way that they becomes and proved to be an effective
tool in the evaluation and intervention process of their clients and healing them resolving issues
related to the past problems and making them move towards self development and growth. A
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Professional make use of self therapeutically recognising the existence of different kinds of
powers in themselves and uses them to benefit their patients for healing them and making them a
better person who flourishes and wishes to develop better future for themselves by learning new
things and moving towards better career leading a secured and comfortable life with no fast
problems and their influences on the present and future. Sometimes while using therapeutic use
of self theory therapist make use of intentional self disclosures in order to make their client or
patient comfortable with themselves and in the environment. This benefits the therapy session
and most importantly the individual undertaking those therapies as they make better growth and
learning with the help of and more openly express their feelings and emotions in front of others
and more importantly accept themselves and move forward for change and developing into a
better individual.
Please describe your understanding or expectations of the way which you will learn to become a
therapist.
According to me and my expectation one of the very best and influential way of learning to
become a therapist is by training and development activities. This training and development
activities can be of many different types but mostly these trainings are categorised into two
methods that is on the job and off the job trainings. With the help of off the job training some
discussion and interview groups can be developed there people get chance to interact with one
another discuss about this therapy and expertise in it along with becoming an efficient counsellor
and therapist. On the other hand on the job training is conducted on the field where I am
expecting that I will be getting a chance to sit in therapy session conducted by an expert where i
will be learning some basic and very important things of becoming a therapist and conducting a
therapy for counselling session for my patients once trainings are over.
Please describe how you expect to have changed as a person by the end of this programme.
According to me and my expectations I believe that by the end of this therapist program I will be
becoming and expecting to become a better individual as well as a good effective therapist. This
program will provide me understanding about the different approaches by which I can heal and
understand my patience in better manners so that they get what they expect by entering this
therapy and I will be able to cure and help many people. I believe and know this very well that
this programs will be only beneficial for me once I practice more and meet new people
understand them, their issues and if not provide the solution then become their companion in
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their pain and depression, so that they do not take any wrong steps rather always hoping to lead a
better life by learning and moving towards better future. This therapy and counselling
programme will actually change me and my personality into a better human being as I know and
believe that helping others and providing solutions for their problems will also provide me a lot
of experience of life and different types of problems faced by human beings in one life in their
past or in their present. These experiences will also be helpful for me as an individual to be
aware about such situations where I can be vulnerable but also help myself from coming out of
that situation and find solutions for me and if that is not possible so I can take other person help
on the right time for reducing the damage of the specific situation on my personal life and my
personality as a human being.
What are your thoughts about making such a deep personal commitment to training to becomes a
PCE therapist?
A PCE therapist is basically a counselling tool for people suffering from depression, with the
help of utilising processes from emotional focus therapy and involves the clients for being more
active in the working and dealing with their emotions. Becoming a PCE therapist is a very
committing and selfless profession where as a counsellor and experience holder of person
centred and humanistic approaches I will be helping people to heal and led a better life. This
therapy programme and training for counsellor experience and an opportunity for me for
continuous professional development and self growth. It will enable me to conduct of more
balance and in depth resolutions of my clients problems and potentially help them so that my
patience led a better life with growth and continuous learning for better development.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Murphy, D. and Joseph, S., 2019. Contributions from the person-centred experiential approach to
the field of social pedagogy. Cambridge Journal of Education, 49(2), pp.181-196.
Murphy, D., 2019. Person-Centred Experiential Counselling for Depression: A manual for
training and practice. SAGE Publications Limited.
Nye, A. and et. al., 2019. Person-centred experiential therapy (PCET) training within a UK NHS
IAPT service: experiences of selected counsellors in the PRaCTICED trial. British
Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 47(5), pp.619-634.
Sutanti, N., 2019. Exploring the Challenges of the Non-Directive Attitude in Person-Centred
Counselling in Indonesian Culture. KnE Social Sciences, pp.37-50.
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