Welcome to the CCTPCAS website

Although CCTPCAS has undergone changes since its inception in the UK in the early 1990s, it was founded and continues to be facilitated by Steve Vincent.

CCTPCAS is in part a project of the Carl Rogers Center for Studies of the Person (CSP), La Jolla, California, USA.

• Carl Rogers DVDs and videos (many of them rare and from late in his life).
• Client-Centred / Person-Centred booklets and articles.
• Workshops, courses, residential encounter groups, communities and other events.
• The Center for Studies of the Person La Jolla Program - in the UK!

Client-Centred Therapy

Originated by Carl Rogers (1902-1987) and colleagues, client-centred therapy is founded on the belief that people have the innate capacity to be self-directing, co-operative and forward-moving. Conditions conducive to actualising human potential include self-awareness, respect, empathy and understanding. Client-centred therapy (also known by some as person-centred counselling) has proven to be the most popular and effective in the UK.

Person-Centred Approach

Broader applications of the principles of client-centred therapy have become known as the person-centred approach, and include education and training, groups and communities (local, national and international), business and other organizations, and conflict transformation (including world peace efforts, for which Carl was Nobel Prize nominated just prior to his death).

About CCTPCAS

CCTPCAS began life as a small concern offering local, non-mainstream education activities such as authentically student-centred training and workshops (including guest visits from CSP members). Much of the current provision is around disseminating resources such as Carl Rogers DVDs, videos, and writing (articles, books, and booklets) from within the client/person-centred tradition. CCTPCAS enables the CSP La Jolla Program (see below) to be hosted in the UK every couple of years or so.

Steve Vincent first became involved in client-centred therapy and the person-centred approach in 1972 and has been a therapist, facilitator or both ever since, as well as having engaged in research and writing. Steve has a sociology degree, a postgraduate counselling diploma, a Masters in counselling and a diploma in supervision. In the past Steve has been Chair, Secretary and Newsletter Editor of BAPCA, the British Association for the Person-Centred Approach and is currently a “Resident Fellow” (although he resides in the UK!) of CSP.

About CSP

CSP, the Center for Studies of the Person remains located in La Jolla, San Diego, California, USA. It is a community founded by Carl Rogers and colleagues in the 1960s, devoted to the study of self and others; discovering, practising, maintaining, enhancing and passing-on client-centred therapy and the person-centred approach. Please visit the CSP website at :

www.centerfortheperson.org.