Humanistic Approach Case Study

From a Humanistic approach, I would begin with Roger’s person-centered style. Holly needs to feel and know that it is ok to cry and be angry over the death of her husband. She loved him very much and misses him terribly, so she needs to understand that all of those stages of feelings/grief that she is going through are valid and necessary. Because it will be important for Holly to be able to express exactly how she feels through her emotion, the relationship I have with her would need to be built on a solid genuine and authentic therapeutic way of being.
With the way of understanding, I would begin by trying to understand how Holly deals with loss. Holly tells her mother of how she felt when her dad left and she was 14, so I would want to understand how that made Holly feel and how that feeling potentially is exacerbated with the death of her husband. When someone dies, I believe people always feel as if there was “unfinished business” whether good or bad, so I would want to understand Jill’s relationship with her husband and what type of meaning that relationship brought to her life. …show more content…
Holly needs to free herself from the disabling place she finds herself and get to the “where do I go from here?”. The here and now vision will be important for Holly at this stage because while mourning the death of her husband is something that needs to occur, life will move on for her. I also do see that the one or two chair approach may work well for Holly to help free herself of the emotions that may be bottled up and perhaps having her pay the role of her husband in what he may say back to her about her feelings of