Counselling is a type of therapy that involves talking through personal issues with a trained counsellor.
Counselling can help people to understand their thoughts and feelings better, enabling them to make positive changes in their lives. Counselling is a safe, non-judgmental and confidential space to explore difficult emotions and experiences, and can help people to gain better insight into themselves and their relationships.
Counselling allows you to talk about the things that may be getting you down, which could include depression, anxiety, anger, grief, alcoholism, difficult relationships and many other issues. Counselling can mean that you will be talking about difficult things from the past but only what you feel safe enough to talk about. Your counsellor will follow your lead on this.
Mentoring is a relationship between two people with the purpose of offering guidance and support. The mentor, usually someone with more experience, provides knowledge and advice to the mentee. Although mentors are usually older and more experienced, mentoring relationships can take place between people of any age or experience level. Mentoring can take many forms, including formal programs, one-on-one meetings, and group activities. Mentoring helps individuals to develop skills, grow professionally, and build confidence.
Coaching helps you to achieve your goals, it could be getting a new job, more confidence, starting a business etc.
A coach will help you to set goals and hold you accountable and this will enable you to achieve your goals a lot quicker.
You may feel like you are not where you want to be and may feel impatient with the progress you are making towards your goals, with a coach you will work together to identify the blocks that are holding you back and by understanding them, this will empower you to achieve your goals.
The greatest musicians, business owners, athletes, actors and actresses have all had coaches who have helped them to achieve great success.
Counselling, mentoring and coaching sessions can last between 50 minutes to 1 hour, this is usually agreed between both parties in the first session.
Yes, there are many different types of counselling approaches, a few of these approaches are:
Psychotherapy, this usually involves talking about the things in the past that may have affected you in your life, psychotherapy helps you to make sense of and heal difficult experiences from the past.
CBT known as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy helps you to work on your thoughts and beliefs.
Systemic Therapy – this focuses on how systems e.g. family, school or your environment affects your emotional wellbeing.