Counselling tends to be of shorter duration than psychotherapy and usually focuses on one specific issue. For example you might be experiencing anxiety and want to work on ways of managing and decreasing it. Or you might have experienced a loss and want to explore grief in a supportive environment.
Psychotherapy tends to be of longer duration and looks at wider issues of how you are in the world, patterns that may be preventing you from being fulfilled, relationship difficulties, feelings of general dissatisfaction with life and lack of purpose. Longer term work allows you to explore a range of issues more deeply and address the underlying causes of repetitive frustration and unhappiness.
Some of the many areas counselling and psychotherapy can address include:
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Stress
• Relationship difficulties
• Sexuality
• Life transitions and life crises
• Bereavement
• Loss
• Anger
• Self-esteem
• Lack of creativity/creative block
• Spirituality
