Person-centred practice takes place in many contexts and the terms ‘counselling' and ‘psychotherapy' apply to some of these but are often interchangeable

Person-centred principles have been and are applied to many fields of human endeavour. They are, after all, about a way of being in relationship and this has an important part in (for example) education, social, political and cultural change, work with families and children and even research but most famously it is known as a way of doing counselling and psychotherapy. However the principles are applied, the theory and practice described as relevant to therapy are likely to be of importance.