What does this relational modality mean more simply?

Well, at the very heart of this practice is the counselling or therapeutic relationship, offering clients opportunity over time to perhaps reveal more of their real selves, unhidden, authentic. This way of being is often denied to us in many real-world relationships, where the normal is to hide our core centre but permit others to interact solely with the outer most fringes of our real selves.

I endeavour to nurture this trust between us, by offering confidentiality as a core ethical principle, receiving information that you chose to share with me, with the highest respect and regard. I strive to be empathic to your feelings, not be judgemental but interested and curious in supporting deep exploration of those feelings.

I will strive to be my authentic self in your company, no hidden agenda of my own and be non-directive in my approach where your autonomy is recognised and encouraged. I am present with you, supporting you to re-connect to that innermost voice allowing you to untwine in a meaningful way to you, what may otherwise seem like an intractable ball of tangled emotions

By offering these conditions in the therapy session, it is possible to develop a different but more positive and personally meaningful experience of being, revealing more of our innermost core.