Counselling is usually but not exclusively, short term work designed to assist the person in dealing with a specific issue in his / her life. It focuses primarily on the effectiveness of the person’s thinking and explores new and more positive approaches in dealing with the particular event or issue in the person’s life.

Psychotherapy is particularly useful where the therapist and client identify a pattern of thinking and/or behaving that has been persistent in the client’s life and is causing recurring issues or difficulties in the person’s emotional or behavioural world. Psychotherapy is more suited to longer term work, in that it examines how these thinking styles and behaviours developed and explores effective ways of adapting or changing these patterns in order to gain more positive control in the person’s life.

There are often areas of overlap between counselling and psychotherapy and there are no definitive rules as to when either should be deployed except for possibly the duration of counselling. However it is important to note that our therapists are educated and trained to work comfortably in both Counselling and Psychotherapy.