Counseling & Psychotherapy
What is Counselling?
Counseling typically focuses on a current problem or crisis and taking steps to address or resolve it.
These issues are primarily explored based on their impact on the present life of the client.
My role here is to be a support and guide to clients. This allows clients to discover their own answers to these situations and to decide on the actions they choose to take around them.
This work is generally short-term. It can last from six weeks up to one year.
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy, like counselling, is based on a healing relationship between a therapist and client.
However, while counseling focuses on individual problems; psychotherapy aims to resolve underlying issues that sustain ongoing problems in a person’s life. In this process, one’s unconscious, childhood, and recurring feeling are often seen as crucial.
This type of work may involve exploring the past and its impact on the present. This helps the client and me as the therapist to identify the unconscious core beliefs and patterns of behavior that are being repeated throughout life. It also gives the client a choice on how to live their life. Psychotherapy tends to be longer term.