About Counselling
Counselling may be helpful to people who want to explore a specific issue or problem. It usually takes place over a shorter period of time and tends to be of a more structured and goal-orientated format than that of psychotherapy.
What Conditions Can it Help?
Counselling can help in many areas, for example: panic or anxiety attacks, bereavement or a specific family issue such as a loss of a job and earnings.
What Benefits can be Expected?
Giving yourself a specific time and place to talk, in complete confidence, can be an enriching experience. What may at first have seemed an insurmountable problem can be put into perspective when talking through various options with a skilled counsellor.
A good counsellor can direct the work with the client in a structured way which will lead to the client feeling clearer about how they feel and the choices open to them.
About Psychotherapy
My own belief as a therapist is that all humans have a basic instinct to want to grow and enrich their life. Psychotherapy is slightly different to counselling in that the work usually takes place over a longer period of time, which gives the client and therapist the opportunity to look more closely at certain behaviours and patterns in a clients' life.
What conditions can it help?
Psychotherapy can be useful for a client who has a more general feeling of dissatisfaction with their life; or for someone who has many issues they want to look at, not just one.
A more in-depth look at repeated life patterns may be more helpful than counselling when events in a person's life seem to recur; such as failed relationships, uncontrolled anger outbursts or moving from job to job.
What benefits can be expected?
The benefit of longer term work is that issues can be looked at and examined in much greater detail and therefore give the client more information than can be expected from short-term counselling.
Counselling may be helpful to people who want to explore a specific issue or problem. It usually takes place over a shorter period of time and tends to be of a more structured and goal-orientated format than that of psychotherapy.
What Conditions Can it Help?
Counselling can help in many areas, for example: panic or anxiety attacks, bereavement or a specific family issue such as a loss of a job and earnings.
What Benefits can be Expected?
Giving yourself a specific time and place to talk, in complete confidence, can be an enriching experience. What may at first have seemed an insurmountable problem can be put into perspective when talking through various options with a skilled counsellor.
A good counsellor can direct the work with the client in a structured way which will lead to the client feeling clearer about how they feel and the choices open to them.
About Psychotherapy
My own belief as a therapist is that all humans have a basic instinct to want to grow and enrich their life. Psychotherapy is slightly different to counselling in that the work usually takes place over a longer period of time, which gives the client and therapist the opportunity to look more closely at certain behaviours and patterns in a clients' life.
What conditions can it help?
Psychotherapy can be useful for a client who has a more general feeling of dissatisfaction with their life; or for someone who has many issues they want to look at, not just one.
A more in-depth look at repeated life patterns may be more helpful than counselling when events in a person's life seem to recur; such as failed relationships, uncontrolled anger outbursts or moving from job to job.
What benefits can be expected?
The benefit of longer term work is that issues can be looked at and examined in much greater detail and therefore give the client more information than can be expected from short-term counselling.
My own experience of psychotherapy has given me much more information about myself: a greater awareness of how I feel, what I want for myself and what options are open to me at any given time. This, in turn, has led to enhanced self-confidence and better tools to deal with the inevitable ups and downs of life. Sometimes the work has been uncomfortable and difficult, but there have been also been many laughs and much happiness along the way.
