ditions of acceptance, no feeling of "I like you if only you are thus and so. (Rogers, p. 225)
             Empathetic understanding means that the therapist accurately understands the client's thoughts, feelings, and meanings from the client's own perspective. It is when the counselor perceives what the world is like from the client's point of view, it demonstrates not only that the point of view has value, but also that the client is being accepted. Mearns and Thorne states: "This conscious move into empathy can have two beneficial consequences; firstly it shifts the therapists' attention from
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