If you are looking for counselling or psychotherapy, you first need to know and understand both what counselling and psychotherapy are, and what they aren't.
One definition of counselling is as follows:
"A generic term that is used to cover the several processes of interviewing, testing, guiding, advising , etc. designed to help an individual solve problems, plan for the future etc.
Clinicians who specialise in guidance in marital problems, drug abuse, vocational selection, community work etc. are often called counselling psychologists."
A counsellor is an individual who is able to provide brief, short-term, specific assistance, advice and help to a client regarding a client’s immediate problem.
A counsellor may have received some formal training, or may also draw from their own experience.
And so there are, typically, many types of counsellors with their own specialities. For example:
Normally it would be expected that a counsellor would be able to listen to, and discuss, the client's particular problem, and then summarise and reflect back to their client the problem and then present to the client the options that are available to the client and, in some cases, dispense advisory leaflets, publications and website links to direct the client on to either find out more information or speak to other professionals for further resolution of their problem if necessary.
A counsellor is an individual who is able to provide brief, short-term, assistance, advice and help to a client regarding a client’s immediate problem.
One definition of psychotherapy is as follows:
"In the most inclusive sense, the use of absolutely any technique or procedure that has palliative or curative effects upon any mental, emotional or behavioural disorder. In this general sense the term is neutral with regard to the theory that may underlie it, the actual procedures and techniques entailed and the form and duration of treatment.
There may, however, be legal and professional issues involved in the actual practice of what is called psychotherapy, and in the technical literature the term is properly used only when the teratment is is carried out by someone with recognised training and using accepted techniques.
The term is often shortened to therapy, particularly when modifiers are appended to identify the form of therapy or the theoretical orientation of the therapist."
A psychotherapist, practising psychotherapy, usually provides assistance to the client that is rather less directed towards providing specific help with a specific challenge in the way that a counsellor might be but is instead focused on helping the client to change, so that the client becomes more able to deal with life's challenges themselves.
Hypnotherapy is a very advanced form of psychotherapy that is carried out whilst the client is in a hypnotic state. It is carried out by trained psychotherapists that have been trained in the way that the mind works, both whilst in Hypnosis, and out of Hypnosis, and are experienced in the safe and effective use use of Hypnosis in therapy.
Peter's own Therapeutic Hypnosis hypnotherapy treatment is particularly effective at helping clients with a wide range of problems and symptoms. So:
It may well be that Peter can help you - just Contact Peter to make an appointment for a free initial consultation.
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For professional, caring and confidential help, adviice, therapy or treatment for, or about, any of the above issues or topics, or similar, just contact Peter, preferably by e-mail, to arrange an appointment for your free initial consultation.
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The Surrey Hypnotherapy Clinic serves the Surrey boroughs of Elmbridge, Epsom and Ewell, Guildford, Mole Valley, Reigate and Banstead, Runnymede, Spelthorne, Surrey Heath, Tandridge, Waverley and Woking.
For Hypnosis therapy and Hypnotherapy in Surrey, the Surrey towns of: Addlestone, Aldershot, Bracknell, Byfleet, Camberley, Epsom, Farnborough, Godalming, Guildford, Knaphill, Leatherhead, Runnymede, Staines, Sunbury, Walton, West Byfleet, Weybridge and Woking are all within a short 30 minute drive from Woking Hypnosis Hypnotherapist Peter Back at the Surrey Hypnotherapy Clinic,
If you would like to find out more about how Surrey Hypnotherapist Peter Back might be able to help you, or if you are simply looking for the best help, advice, therapy or treatment, from a highly qualified and experienced Psychoanalyst, Psychotherapist, Hypnotherapist or Hypnotist, just contact Peter by e-mail, at the Surrey Hypnotherapy Clinic, Woking, to arrange an appointment to learn more about Hypnosis and Peter's own unique form of specialist, evidence based, Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy.
Acknowledgements
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counseling_psychology
3. The Journal of Counseling Psychology
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Towns & Districts/Boroughs in Surrey:
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West Byfleet Counselling Weybridge Counselling Woking Counselling
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