Difference between psychotherapy & Couselling

 Counselling: give advice to give professional help to someone with personal or psychological problems recommend a course of action.

Psychotherapy: the treatment of mental disorder by psychological and not medical means.

Counselling:

1: Helps people identify problems and crises and encourages them to take positive steps to resolve these issues.

2: It is the best course of therapeutic treatment for anyone who already has an understanding of wellbeing, and who is also able to resolve problems.

3: Counselling is a short-term process that encourages the change of behaviour.

Psychotherapy:

1: Helps people with psychological problems that have built up over the course of a long period of time.

2: It will help you understand your feelings, thoughts and actions more clearly.

3: Psychotherapy is a longer-term process of treatment that identifies emotional issues and the background to problems and difficulties.

PSYCHOTHERAPY

Psychotherapy, or talk therapy, is a way to help people with a broad variety of mental illnesses and emotional difficulties. Psychotherapy can help eliminate or control troubling symptoms so a person can function better and can increase well-being and healing.

Problems helped by psychotherapy include difficulties in coping with daily life; the impact of trauma, medical illness or loss, like the death of a loved one; and specific mental disorders, like depression or anxiety. There are several different types of psychotherapy and some types may work better with certain problems or issues. Psychotherapy may be used in combination with medication or other therapies.

Therapy Sessions

Therapy may be conducted in an individual, family, couple, or group setting, and can help both children and adults. Most sessions are 30 to 50 minutes long. Both patient and therapist need to be actively involved in psychotherapy. The trust and relationship between a person and his/her therapist is essential to working together effectively and benefiting from psychotherapy.

Psychotherapy can be short-term (a few sessions), dealing with immediate issues, or long-term (months or years), dealing with long standing and complex issues. The goals of treatment and arrangements for how often and how long to meet are planned jointly by the patient and therapist.

Confidentiality is a basic requirement of psychotherapy. Also, although patients share personal feelings and thoughts, intimate physical contact with a therapist is never appropriate, acceptable, or useful.