What’s the difference between counseling and psychotherapy?
There’s a lot of overlap. Both can be enriching and help you to deal with your problems in a more effective way. Counseling often focuses on a specific problem, whereas psychotherapy tends to deal with more deep-seated issues arising from your past. Many people who seek psychotherapy are not in a crisis, but are interested in finding out about themselves, improving relationships and living a more rewarding life.
Most of the time, counseling and psychotherapy refer to the same thing. In all probability, there is some counseling and some psychotherapy intermittently taking place in the course of any single therapeutic hour. Technically, the word counselor means advisor, or one who advises or teaches. In counseling it is understood that two individuals are putting their heads together in an intellectual manner in order to solve a problem. Therefore, we could say that counseling is that which provides advice, or is conducted in such a manner that one is actually taught or given information in a didactic way. The term counseling is commonly used in conjunction with other professions, such as legal counselor, or financial counselor, or spiritual counselor. There are even references in the Bible to Christ as Counselor. Psychotherapy, on the other hand, is a term that, generally speaking, refers to the “treatment of mental and emotional disorders through the use of psychological techniques designed to
