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The task of counselling is to help people to resolve their “here and now” problems and to express thoughts and feelings which are being held or blocked. Psychotherapy includes these things and also involves a much deeper exploration of the self and the personality, which enables the client to change decisions made very early in childhood and unhelpful or unwanted patterns in their life. Most everyday problems can be helped by using counselling and much deeper long term problems usually require psychotherapy. Person Centred counselling is based on the belief that we each have the capability within ourselves to reach our full potential. In person centred counselling, the role of the counsellor is to provide the proper environment for that to happen. Psychodynamic counselling stresses the importance of unconscious and past experiences in determining our current behaviour and feelings. The counsellor will therefore be more proactive in helping the client to explore their past experiences, behaviour patterns and ways of relating with others and in working with the client to develop a better way of being. The psychodynamic approach is derived from psychoanalysis and, in this respect, is much more akin to psychotherapy. The boundaries between person centred counselling, psychodynamic counselling and psychotherapy are often blurred and much depends upon the approach, training and experience of the counsellor. John uses an integrative, relational approach which combines elements from both the person centred and psychodynamic schools of counselling. This allows the recognition of the client as a whole being whilst exploring the underlying, and often unconscious, issues from the client's past, which may be contributing to the present distress. Sue uses an integrative, relational approach which combines elements from the person centred and motivational schools of counselling as well as from solution focused brief therapy. Working from a Transactional Analysis perspective, this allows the recognition of the client as a whole being whilst developing an awareness of their themes and patterns of behaviour, which may be contributing to their current way of being. Both Sue and John are undertaking further training as psychotherapists and may therefore include appropriate techniques taken from either counselling or psychotherapy. |
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