Client-centred practice with a focus on best outcomes is core to most practitioners in the therapeutic, holistic, coaching and allied health professions. And rightly so. Keeping the clients welfare as central is not only key to ensuring clients get the best possible service available, but also keeps ethical practice to the forefront. In the professions who have the benefit of clinical or cross-professional supervision, once again these practices are client-centred to ensure best outcomes and ethical practice is maintained. Once again this is essential to gatekeeping the professions and keeping client’s safe and their needs front and centre. 

Over recent years I've begun to investigate the expanding and evolving of this core tenet when we bring the practitioner themselves into the centre alongside the client. 

How can both be the central focus? 

There can only be one element at the centre? 

To put the practitioner at the centre relegates the client to some...