Counselling & THERAPY
Differences between Counselling and Therapy
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Counselling Focuses On specific issues and is designed to help a person manage or work through a particular situation or problem, such as addiction, stress management, grieving a recent loss, or improving communication skills. |
Therapy Focuses On issues that have made a significant impact on a person’s patterns of thinking and behavior, and negatively affects how they interact with themselves, others, and the world around them. |
The Goals of Counselling Are often to problem solve around the current issue that is happening. It involves increasing knowledge, learning to apply new skills, and practicing strategies to support current coping and future prevention. Counselling is also often used as starting point to prepare individuals to consider or engage in Therapy. |
The Goals of Therapy Are to regulate these patterns and improve overall psychosocial functioning. It involves developing a deeper level of awareness, intervening with mal-adaptive patterns of thought and behaviour, facilitating emotional processing of unresolved experiences or traumas, and acquiring more adaptive approaches to living life and achieving personal goals. |
Counselling is Typically Shorter-Term as it focuses on immediate support needs. Coping with the impact of negative experiences is an important part of understanding and navigating it, and Counselling can be an essential part of healing and recovery. |
Therapy can Short, Intermediate, or Long Term in nature depending on the depth and breadth of the issue to be addressed. Sometimes Therapy can be applied short term, particularly with an EMDR approach |
Issues Counselling can Help With
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Issues Therapy Can Help With
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Benefits of Counselling
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Benefits of Therapy
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Please note that we do not offer crisis, on-call, or after-hours services