Counseling typically focuses on a current problem or crisis and taking steps to address or resolve it. 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.

Supervision is a formal arrangement whereby a counsellor/psychotherapist discusses their work regularly with someone who is an experienced practitioner and supervisor. The task is to work together to ensure and develop the efficiency of the practitioner/client relationship.

The core functions of supervision are to provide a facilitative and affirmative professional relationship within which the welfare of the client is monitored, and the therapist is supported within their work and encouraged to develop.

Counseling typically focuses on a current problem or crisis and taking steps to address or resolve it. 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.

Supervision is a formal arrangement whereby a counsellor/psychotherapist discusses their work regularly with someone who is an experienced practitioner and supervisor. The task is to work together to ensure and develop the efficiency of the practitioner/client relationship.

The core functions of supervision are to provide a facilitative and affirmative professional relationship within which the welfare of the client is monitored, and the therapist is supported within their work and encouraged to develop.