Client Centered Therapy and Counseling

I particularly enjoyed studying Rogers and his theory about client centered therapy. For as long as I could remember, I always thought about counseling and therapy as a setting where the therapist controlled the conversation and directed the client toward the goal of therapy, which a lot of different kinds of therapies do. But in reading about Rogers, I really liked that he put the goal of therapy and how to get there in the client’s hands. Most people don’t like being told what to do or how to do it, since that it human nature to an extent, and client centered therapy gives them that reign of control for themselves. I went through therapy myself when I was younger for some family issues, but the therapist was always directing our sessions and I always felt like I wasn’t in charge of anything. They even told me how I was supposed to feel on some occasions. (That I vaguely remember because it was about 6 years ago) But I feel as though if I had gone through some type of therapy like Rogers described in his theory, I would have had a better experience than I did.