What is Therapy or Counselling?
Therapy or counselling is a partnership where the psychologist helps you better understand or solve your problems. Therapy and counselling both provide the opportunity for you to talk openly and confidentially about your concerns and feelings. Therapy and counselling is usually client-centered and collaborative in nature and may include homework between sessions to facilitate insight and progress toward resolution of problems. Many people see counselling and therapy as very similar. We see two differences; counselling often refers to dealing with day-to-day issues in your life, like stress or conflict. Therapy deals with an individuals difficulties by addressing basic beliefs about the self. In addition, counselling typically involves reflection, problem-solving, and facilitation of emotional expression. Therapy will more often take a specific approach to a difficulty, such as cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal, psychodynamic, hypnotherapy or existential therapy. Each approach has a u
