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Counselling will help you to gain insight into your feelings and behaviour. You will begin to see things more clearly, possibly from a different perspective therefore enabling choice or change, and reducing confusion. You will not be given advice or directed to take a particular course of action. You will not be judged in any way. In the counselling sessions you can explore various aspects of your life and feelings, talking about them freely and openly in a way that is rarely possible with friends or family. Bottled up feelings such as anger, anxiety, grief and embarrassment can become very intense and counselling offers an opportunity to explore them, with the possibility of making them easier to understand. You will therefore be encouraged in the expression of these difficult feelings and as a result will be able to accept them more easily.
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When you are at one with your real self, you experience life with joy, feel strong and can speak with your true voice.
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Counselling, psychotherapy – what is the difference? |
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Essentially they are the same activity and the difference is of degree, rather than kind.
Counselling is more often conducted for a limited number of sessions and while looking at the client’s background, its primary function is to identify and help the client solve immediate problems.
Psychotherapy is a longer-term and usually open-ended commitment, and will look in greater depth at the client’s history and patterns, and the relationship between client and therapist becomes a much more intrinsic part of what enables the therapy to work. Both provide a regular time and space for people to talk about their troubles and explore difficult feelings, in an environment that is dependable, free from intrusion and confidential. Sessions usually take place once a week - making this regular commitment gives you a better chance of getting to the heart of your difficulties.
What can counselling/psychotherapy do?
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