Using a client-centered framework, a psychotherapist can conceptualize a client's symptoms in different ways depending on the symptoms they are presenting with. For clients like Mary, the psychotherapist would first conceptualize her symptoms and then address them over time in therapy sessions. As clients continue to attend these sessions, there is usually some improvement over time. This improvement can also lead to a change in their attitude and behavior. Also during these sessions, the therapist examines factors outside of therapy that may indicate that the client has improved. If the client actually shows improvement based on these factors, the end results are clearly visible. Mary is truly an amazing client to focus on in order to visualize how this process works from a psychotherapist's perspective. A psychotherapist would certainly conceptualize Mary's depressive symptoms as being the result of more serious underlying issues. She states that the cause of her depression is due to the fact that she will never have children. For this reason, a therapist would develop the idea that Mary is depressed because there is incongruity in her life. Incongruence occurs when there is a struggle between how the client is perceived by themselves and others (perceived self) and how they actually are as a person (real self). Mary faces the difficulty of being seen as accepting a childless life and having a long desire to have a child. A client-centered therapist would also believe that Mary is depressed because of the incongruence she has between wanting to go to school to become a horticulturist, and having to settle down as a secretary...... middle of paper. ..... this type of therapy. This is because it has all the traits of incongruence that the client-centric approach works on. This includes her desire to have a child, even though she cannot have one, and her installation as a secretary, despite her desire to become a horticulturist. With the help of a therapist, Mary would be able to accept what is causing her depression, which would eventually allow her to live her life on her own terms, rather than those of the father on whom she is so dependent. . It is completely normal to have difficulty continuing to speak or to be unsure whether you are doing therapy correctly, especially when the client has not experienced a therapy session like this. However, over time, clients like Mary become much more comfortable just talking about themselves, which is actually very therapeutic in itself..