ABSTRACT
Most counselling that takes place in Britain probably occurs within the one-to-one arena of individual counselling. Individual counselling, by its nature, provides clients with a situation of complete confidentiality. Individual counselling can be conducted to best match the client's pace of learning. Individual counselling may also have therapeutic merits but for negative reasons. Horvath and Symonds undertook a meta-analytic review of twentyfour studies and concluded that the alliance was positively related to therapeutic outcome. Butler et al. found cognitive-behavioural therapy superior to behaviour therapy in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder. In cognitive-behavioural approaches, the relationship between counsellor and client is regarded as a real present-centred relationship which serves as a facilitative backdrop to the successful execution of a set of important therapeutic tasks. Person-centred counsellors tend to work in the time and space frames determined by their clients.
