counselling & psychotherapy definitions
The boundaries between counselling and psychotherapy are often blurred.
Generally, counselling is seen as short term, six sessions or less,
whereas psychotherapy sessions may continue for years. Counselling
tends to deal with less serious issues, such as relationship problems
or short term loss and grief. Psychotherapy may be necessary, however,
in cases of long standing unresolved grief and working with survivors
of adult or childhood sexual abuse.
Psychotherapy is an engagement between the therapist and the client to
examine issues that lie below the mind's surface and may be more confrontational
than counselling, which can often present as a mainly supportive and
educational role. |
I rarely make distinctions when working with clients, as to whether
I am wearing my counsellor's hat or my psychotherapist's. Indeed, one
session may embrace aspects from both viewpoints.
Please contact me if you would like a more
detailed explanation of the differences between these two approaches.
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