What is Counselling and Psychotherapy?
Counselling and psychotherapy are talking therapies that can help you navigate life’s challenges, work through emotional difficulties, and support your mental health.
While both involve talking and reflection, they serve very different purposes.
Counselling
Counselling is a shorter-term process designed to help you cope with specific problems, and current life challenges.
Focus: What is happening in your life right now, and how it is affecting you.
Duration: Usually short term, depending on your needs and goals.
Goal: To support you in gaining insight, building coping strategies, and making changes that improve your wellbeing.
Common Reasons People Seek Counselling: Stress, anxiety, grief and loss, relationship difficulties, work and study pressures.
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is a deeper, more exploratory form of therapy that focuses on understanding long standing patterns, early experiences, and unconscious processes that may be influencing your life today.
Focus: The underlying causes of ongoing emotional distress and the patterns that shape how you think, feel, and relate to others.
Duration: Often longer term, depending on your needs and goals.
Goal: To support meaningful, lasting change in emotional wellbeing, self-understanding, and relationships.
Common Reasons People Seek Psychotherapy: Ongoing anxiety or depression, trauma, low self-esteem, and long-standing emotional or relational difficulties.