Relationship‐Centered Counseling: A Humanistic Model of Integration

Relationship‐centered counseling is a development in the client‐centered tradition. It represents a humanistic integration that gives primacy to the humanizing and counseling relationship, conceives technical expertise as the instrumental extension of relationship, and affirms the necessity for an in‐depth synthesis of both for effective counseling. Significant findings from contemporary process and outcome research are presented as supportively consistent with the relationship‐centered integration, which has implications for research, practice, and training.