Counselling and psychotherapy are highly effective – with results far beyond those we achieve when we struggle on alone. Over 500 studies have established that counselling works. In fact, it is the most effective and validated of all health/medical interventions.
Counselling is a broad name for a wide variety of procedures to help people adjust to and manage difficult circumstances through therapeutic discussion.
Psychotherapy tends to focus on resolving long-standing, ‘deeper’ concerns. These may be feelings, patterns, behaviours or attitudes that have troubled a person in all aspects of their daily life for many years.
To address these difficulties, the therapist and client work together to understand the underlying issues and face the feelings driving the problems. The same benefits apply as for counselling, yet with greater depth and permanence.
Career counselling draws on many disciplines including vocational assessment and guidance, work-related training, coaching and teaching, change management, decision-making skills, social equity theory, stress management, psychology, as well as various counselling techniques.
Counsellor and client work collaboratively to manage career and career-related problems more effectively, bring about beneficial life-work changes, make career decisions by recognizing and developing a person’s existing resources, and build confidence to follow their own judgement and dreams.
