I wonder why some people choose to see a counsellor and some see a therapist of some sort or another.
I imagine counselling comes to mind when people think about bereavement, letting things go by talking them through. Psychotherapy is a talking therapy where again there is a lot of talking about the problem.
I also wonder whether ‘therapy’ has a more ‘hard core’ perception for people and a sense of seeing a counsellor being more acceptable to peers than seeing a therapist. Boy, they must be screwed up of they need to see a therapist!
I find that the more clients focus on a problem, the more they get. Your mind sees more of what you focus on. I am not saying bury the problem, whether it be grief or anxiety etc., absolutely not – the more you resist something the more it persists. I just think that letting go of things can be quicker than people imagine, through accepting it, being equipped with some tools to help and ultimately letting it go at the unconscious level.
Counselling is very much at the conscious level, sometimes our unconscious needs to let go of it as well and as sense of letting go can be experienced at a deeper level.
At the end of the day there is not one solution for all people, so counselling will work for some and not others as I find that in my practice, some things work on some clients not others, I don’t have a one size fits all approach. I don’t expect the client to change to fit what I am doing, I change to fit them. If you want a chat about Cognitive Hypnotherapy and how it differs to counselling and perhaps have a chat at my London hypnotherapy practice then contact me for a free initial consultation to explore how it may help you.