Psychotherapy and Counselling in Menston and Online

The difference between Psychotherapy and Counselling

Counselling is usually short-term and focuses on your present situation. It may address a specific issue or aim to relieve particular symptoms, such as worry. Counselling generally deals with current issues that can be easily resolved at the conscious level, and I often use questioning techniques to help you find your own answers. To alleviate symptoms, I might encourage you to practise skills that can be helpful in overcoming anxiety or depression. In essence, counselling is more concerned with practical or immediate issues and results. 

Psychotherapy is usually longer term, an evolutionary process that helps a person look at long-standing attitudes, thoughts, and behaviours that have resulted in the current quality of one’s life and relationships. We would typically explore the past and understand your current difficulties with your experiences as a child. The work is usually deeper, more intense, and the change you experience is more fundamental and long-lasting. It goes much deeper to uncover root causes of problems, resulting in more dramatic changes in perspective regarding oneself, one’s life experience, and the world in general. Ultimately, psychotherapy aims to empower the individual by freeing him/her from the grip of unconscious triggers or impulses through increased self-awareness