COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY IN ARCHWAY N19 BY MAGGI RUSSELL

Your counsellor will aim to help you find your own solutions to the problems you are experiencing, through exploration of current and potential future problems and techniques for solving them, and offer you non judgemental reflection, regard and support - conditions which can help people change and grow. The counselling relationship will follow mutually agreed rules, towards a goal, and will aim to develop your strengths. Counselling is a set of theories and techniques derived from observations made by counsellors - your counsellor will use particular theories and techniques during your counselling sessions, depending on their training, and the problems you are experiencing.

Psychotherapy is a dialogue between you, the client - the person who is in psychotherapy, and your psychotherapist - the person who has received training in psychotherapy at a recognised institute of psychotherapy and who practices psychotherapy. Psychotherapy requires you subscribe to the idea that either underlying causes from your childhood experiences give rise to the problems you are experiencing, or the idea that the way you currently think about yourself and others is the cause. Psychotherapy is a method of conceptualising these issues - to understand why the problems you are experiencing have developed for you at this particular time. In order to address these issues, psychotherapy requires you to talk about what is troubling you.