Every new encounter presents a challenge to the counsellor’s ability to offer [them]selves as someone who is prepared to enter into relational depth and who is unafraid of a level of involvement where the client can face hidden pain and risk new ways of being.

Person-Centred Counselling In Action, 4th Ed. Dave Mearns and Brian Thorne. Page 35 (The Counsellor’s attitude to [them]self)

Self-acceptance, let alone self-love, is not easily attained and it needs tending once established. Essentially it requires a willingness to give oneself time, attention, and care, not out of self-indulgence, but from a sense of responsibility to clients in the service of the work of counselling

Person-Centred Counselling In Action, 4th Ed. Dave Mearns and Brian Thorne. Page 37-38 (The Counsellor’s attitude to [them]self)