Person-Centered Therapy Castle Rock Colorado
Person-centered therapy with Ashley Jangro, LPCC. Client-focused approach emphasizing empathy, authenticity, and your innate capacity for growth and healing.
Person-Centered
You are the expert on your own life
What is Person-Centered Therapy?
Person-centered therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, believes you have an innate capacity for growth, healing, and positive change. The therapist's role is to provide a supportive environment where your natural healing process can unfold.
Person-Centered Approach Helps With
Core Person-Centered Beliefs
Every person has an innate drive toward growth, healing, and self-actualization
You know yourself better than anyone else and have the answers within you
You deserve acceptance and respect regardless of what you've done or experienced
The Three Core Conditions
Carl Rogers identified three essential conditions that create the optimal environment for personal growth and healing. These form the foundation of person-centered therapy.
Unconditional Positive Regard
Complete acceptance of you as a person, without judgment or conditions
This Means:
Empathic Understanding
Deeply understanding your inner world and reflecting that understanding back to you
This Means:
Genuineness (Congruence)
Being authentic, real, and transparent in our therapeutic relationship
This Means:
The Healing Power of Being Truly Seen
When you experience unconditional positive regard, empathic understanding, and genuineness consistently over time, something profound happens. You begin to:
Develop Self-Awareness:
- • Notice and understand your true feelings
- • Recognize your patterns and habits
- • Identify your genuine needs and desires
- • Understand your reactions and responses
Build Self-Acceptance:
- • Accept all parts of yourself, including flaws
- • Reduce self-criticism and harsh judgment
- • Develop self-compassion and kindness
- • Feel worthy of love and acceptance
My Person-Centered Approach
In person-centered therapy, you lead the way. I create a safe, accepting space where you can explore your thoughts and feelings at your own pace and in your own direction.
Session Experience
What Makes This Different
Non-Directive
I don't give advice or tell you what to do - you discover your own solutions
Process-Focused
We focus on how you experience things, not just what happened
Present-Centered
We explore what's alive for you right now in this moment
Relationship-Based
The therapeutic relationship itself is healing and transformative
Person-Centered vs Other Approaches
Person-Centered Therapy:
- ✅ You set the agenda and pace
- ✅ Focus on your subjective experience
- ✅ Emphasizes the therapeutic relationship
- ✅ Trusts your natural healing capacity
- ✅ Non-judgmental, accepting environment
- ✅ Process-oriented rather than technique-driven
When You Might Also Need:
- ⚠️ Specific skill-building (CBT, DBT)
- ⚠️ Trauma processing (somatic work)
- ⚠️ Crisis intervention or safety planning
- ⚠️ Concrete problem-solving strategies
- ⚠️ Structured approaches for severe symptoms
- ⚠️ Medication evaluation and coordination
Note: I often integrate person-centered principles with other approaches as needed. The therapeutic relationship and your innate wisdom remain central regardless of which techniques we use.