In my understanding, unconditional positive regard is "meeting the client where they are at" and moving from there. It's not that the client can do no wrong, but that the client is doing the best they can with what they have in the moment. The job of the T at this point is to hear the client & help them get to the next step.

I said my current T does this (as have some previous T's), b/c she takes what I bring to therapy and doesn't judge me for it. She may be frustrated with some of my "stuckness", but doesn't make me feel like crap about it. She is good about taking any frustrations she may have and using them as guides to help direct her approaches. She's incredibly even most of the time. She knows how to balance things in her own life/space in a way that allows her to be an even support in the therapy room with her clients that are often in crisis (she's a trauma T. She has at least 6 trauma clients on her current caseload b/c there are that many of us in the group she runs)... I'm sure she has wanted to strangle me a few times when I return to the "I know I'm making this all up, so can we figure out why?" line of thinking, but in her interactions with me, she's still very patient and indulgent. We go through evrything again, and she lets me land on whatever side of the belief I end up. She doesn't yell at me or tell me I'm SO worng (or that she's glad I finally gave up the lie). She doesn't admonish me for wasting her time, she just goes with it... When I tell her I'm self-harming, instead of telling me how stupid it is, she tries to remind me of my other options, and to minimize the potential damage...

of course, all that is working with the defenition of "unconditional positive regard" being that the therapist is "meeting the client where they're at".