Counselling is the skilled and principled use of relationship to facilitate self-knowledge, emotional acceptance and growth and the optimal development of personal resources. The overall aim of counsellors is to provide an opportunity for people to work towards living more satisfyingly and resourcefully. Counselling relationships will vary according to need but may be concerned with developmental issues, addressing and resolving specific problems, making decisions, coping with crisis, developing personal insights and knowledge, working through feelings of inner conflict or improving relationships with others.
Psychotherapy involves
sitting down with a therapist and working together to figure out what is and is
not working for you in terms of thought, mood, emotional regulation, perception
or memory, that may impair your judgement, insight, behaviour, communication or
social functioning. A variety of techniques may be employed depending on an
individual’s strengths and needs.
