Clients frequently utilize the terms counselling and psychotherapy interchangeably however it could be beneficial to explain many of the differences between the two.
Counselling supplies a sympathetic ear to a person in distress. Ideally the counsellor listens with full attention without interrupting for corrections, analysis or advice. The therapeutic value of being truly followed mustn’t be underestimated. Deep listening seldom takes place in ordinary conversation, where everyone is evaluating the validity of what your lover has stated or thinking about their next response. Knowing that one’s listener does not have any other agenda, and does not interrupt, provides speaker the freedom to convey emotions or difficult thoughts in greater detail, often making unanticipated connections in the process. Counselling doesn’t necessarily require professional training. A trusted friend may fill the role of counsellor.
Along with listening, a counsellor offers solace. A heart-felt empathic response including “of course” supplies the distressed person with all the sort of safety and support a loving parent gives a child. A warranty that the distressed person possesses the inner resources to manage the situation available might help to mobilize those strengths. A counsellor might help someone in trouble to recognize his or her thinking as being distorted somehow, at odds with objective reality, perhaps exaggerating the negatives while overlooking the positives. Ideally a counsellor may lead the distressed person from confusion by eliciting suggestions for handling a situation rather than providing answers.
Counselling could bring relief for confusion, distress, non-traumatic grief, temporary loss of self-esteem, or bewilderment in the face of crisis. Counselling alone cannot heal true mental disturbances like depression, anxiety, traumatic grief, unresolved childhood issues, or deficiency of self-esteem as a result of destructive core beliefs. These require psychotherapy.
Psychotherapy also involves carefully listening so that you can understand the presenting problem also to detect the presence of unexpressed issues. A psychotherapist invokes techniques learned during professional training to aid a client effect alterations in his or her life. There currently exist some fifty different therapeutic techniques, with Adlerian Therapy, Animal-Assisted Therapy, and Art Therapy on one side in the alphabet and Spiritual Therapy, Systems Therapy and Traumatic Incident Reduction at the other. But all have in common the use of specifically-chosen strategies to create change. Generally, psychotherapy happens over a long period of time and usually relates a client’s current difficulties to life-long, even multi-generational, patterns of behavior. Personality disorders for example schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, or obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, may need medication as per a psychiatrist in addition to the therapeutic intervention that the psychologist or psychotherapist can supply.
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