ABSTRACT
People come for counselling - whether to school counsellors, marriage guidance counsellors or whatever - with a variety of problems. Usually the problem has to do with a conflict of some kind. And resolving the conflict is not easy; if it were easy, one would not consult a counsellor. Perhaps the essence of the matter is that the humanistic counsellor genuinely believes that the client has the answer, and can find the answer given the time and space to do so. Some important developments have taken place within the field of person-centred counselling. The basic idea of co-counselling is this: after proper training, which ensures the presence of shared assumptions and techniques, two people meet once a week for two hours. Thus each person gets counselling and gives counselling equally. Experiences leading to the theory and practice of co-counselling began in the early 1950s in Seattle, Washington, USA, with the work of Harvey Jackins.
