The Experiential Dimension of Person-Centred Therapy
While traditional person-centred therapy emphasises the therapeutic relationship and core conditions, the experiential extension deepens the approach by focusing more explicitly on the client’s moment-to-moment lived experience. Person-Centred Experiential (PCE) approaches—associated with developments such as Emotion-Focused Therapy and experiential process research—retain Rogers’ core philosophy but place greater emphasis on how clients access, process, and symbolise their internal experiences, particularly emotion.