Therapy, Psychotherapy, Counseling?

Practice

My belief is that the therapist and the client both have active roles. My goal is to provide a comfortable and supportive environment. Your part will be to identify goals that you would like to achieve during therapy and be willing to examine any potential obstacles and strengths that will either hinder or help you move toward obtaining your desired goals.

Focus

When counseling clients, my approach is to address the entire person. I believe that “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" -Aristotle. We will begin by building a relationship. I will listen to you. I will learn what you want to change and how willing you are to make those changes. We will then establish goals, set priorities, and utilize clinically proven treatments that allow us to travel on this journey together as a team. My role as a therapist is to be a catalyst to you and help you to set goals, make decisions, and develop problem resolutions.

Therapy

Therapy is a place to identify and build on current strengths, learn problem-solving strategies, develop or enhance coping skills, learn more effective ways to communicate with others, and receive support and feedback. The counseling relationship is designed to be one that will facilitate change and growth.

The terms “counseling” and “psychotherapy” are often used interchangeably, and most professionals have no primary objection to that. They can also both occur at the same time. However, if one were to make a distinction, it would be accurate to say that:

Counseling is the process of guiding the client to discover a solution to the problem he or she is facing. It may be just that simple, or it may expand to incorporate some aspects of psychotherapy.
Psychotherapy refers to a healing process, in which the client aims to correct longstanding non-beneficial behavior. Psychotherapy explores issues from the past that are concealed in the subconscious mind but are a dominant force for how a person thinks, feels, and behaves in the "now." It is a collaborative relationship between the therapist and the client which uncovers revelations, new understandings, and new possibilities.
Here is a great article: https://www.verywellmind.com/counselor-or-psychotherapist-1067401

Therapy, Psychotherapy, Counseling?

Practice

Focus

Therapy

The terms “counseling” and “psychotherapy” are often used interchangeably, and most professionals have no primary objection to that. They can also both occur at the same time. However, if one were to make a distinction, it would be accurate to say that:

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