There are many types of counsellors and varied topic-centred types of counselling, such as: marital counselling, drug and alcohol counselling, career counselling, health counselling etc.
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Psychotherapy, Psychologist and Relationship Counselling in Mumbai, India
1. Psychotherapy, Psychologist and Relationship
Counselling
Psychotherapy and Counselling
I am often asked the difference between psychotherapy and counselling. While these words are
used interchangeably, there is a difference between them and it is vital to be cognisant of the
distinction. Counselling generally implies a short term, very specific and targeted facilitation.
There are many types of counsellors and varied topic-centred types of counselling, such as:
marital counselling, drug and alcohol counselling, career counselling, health counselling etc. The
list can go on . . what is important to know is that counselling designates a facilitation around
very narrow criteria’s restricted to the theme the counselling is pivoted around.
So a marital counsellor will focus primarily on marital issues, and will have restricted
therapeutic skills in other areas of mental health, such as trauma work, attachment issues or
chronic pain. Tangential issues that could come up in the context of a marriage, that go beyond
the nominal marital issues, are out of the scope of the counsellor and counselling. For instance, if
there are sexual problems in a relationship, due to one of the partners being a survivor of
childhood sexual abuse, it would be hard for a counsellor alone to tackle such a case since
childhood sexual abuse elicits deep trauma work. Counsellors are restricted to mostly working on
the communication styles of the partners and regulating the behaviours of each member of the
couple in the context of the marriage.
Psychotherapy or rather integral psychotherapy is a more expansive and holistic method of
therapeutic work which integrates a vast panoply of areas from developmental, social, spatial,
temporal, existential, behavioural and transpersonal vectors as they inform the subjectivity of
the client. Here childhood misattunements with primary givers are given importance, as well as a
range of other factors, some of which could be medical conditions, cultural
2. conditionings, learning disabilities, traumas, stress reactions, dreams, fantasies, anxieties,
memories, relational patterns, addictions, depression, tics, phobias etc. that impact the
individual. A psychotherapist is trained in one or more modalities that are oriented towards
harmonising psyche and soma like integral somatic psychology, psychoanalysis, analytical
psychology, dialectical behaviour therapy, somatic experiencing, hakomi to name a few.
Like there are many different kinds of counselling, there are many divergent types of
psychotherapies. It is good to inform oneself about the many kinds of psychotherapies available
and then to choose what is most appropriate for oneself. If you are someone who is very into the
imagination and has vivid dreams a Jungian analyst might be the right match, if you are oriented
towards uncovering unconscious psychological roots of childhood experiences you might want a
Freudian or a Kleinian, if you want group work a Bionian, for psychospiritual work a
transpersonal psychotherapist, for somatic work a somatic therapist and so on . . .
It is best to know well your own sui generis therapeutic needs and then to find a psychotherapist
or counsellor that will be able to work within your ambit and with your very specific, tailor
made therapeutic goals.
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