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What is Counselling and Psychotherapy?
The counselling process is one in which you have
an opportunity for a private face-to-face
discussion with a concerned, highly skilled
counsellor for the purpose of resolving your
situation.
Your counsellor will be an active participant in
this problem-solving process, asking questions,
making suggestions, and helping you to perceive
the situation in a different light. Counselling
is an active process, intended to be
short-term/long term, and specifically directed
towards resolving the problems that brought you
to counselling.
There are times in life when we all experience
problem with living which we don't seem able to
handle on our own. Whether it is a marital
problem or a child having difficulty in school,
a troubled adolescent, or a situation of
substance abuse, spending a few hours with
professional counsellor can be immensely
helpful. The earlier you seek help for a
problem, the better chance you have to resolve
it.
Psychotherapy is similar to counselling as they
are both confidential services within oral,
ethical and legal limits. This involves using
active listening and prompting skills.
Psychotherapy and counselling are both based on
talking and the respectful and trusting
relationship that builds up between the client
and therapist.
The aim is to help and support the client to
develop an insight into their problems/issues.
The client is encouraged to approach life in
fresh way by drawing on their own resources of
which they may be unaware.
In psychotherapy, the process can be applied to
more deep-seated personal issues and this tends
to go deeper than counselling. Here the client
is encouraged to examine aspects of their past
including childhood and their relationships with
parents and significant others.
This exploration helps the client to become
aware of the patterns in their life that have
become unconscious and negative habits. This
enables these issues to be understood and to
start the process of changing them. Some of
these issues may be quite complex and require
longer-term therapy.
Concerned about your health, your level of
motivation, a traumatic time in your life, your
work or career, your sexuality or anything which
is becoming a problem?
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