Let’s start here: you are not a broken appliance in need of repair. Person‑centred counselling (also called client‑centred therapy) puts you — not a diagnosis, not a treatment plan — at the heart of the process. Instead of the counsellor acting as the expert who analyses, directs or “fixes”, the work rests on a quietly radical belief: You already carry within you the capacity for growth, healing and change. Developed in the 1940s and 1950s by psychologist (and Nobel Peace Pri