Whats the difference between counseling and therapy? Are they the same? Which is better?

Question

Counseling, Therapy

Answer 1

The differences between counseling and therapy are style and purpose. Counseling allows the counselor to give suggestions and to provide emotional support if needed. Therapy goes into much greater depth and assumes the client is intent on making changes. Although therapy can be supportive, it is better for the therapist to leave that part of the helping to another person such as a religous authority figure, a good friend, or a spouse. Support is necessary if the client has poor psychic strength, but support does not require change and good therapy does.

Therapy brings a client to looking at self in a realistic manner, to devine just what are the client's goals, to lay out a path to realize those goals, and to work hard to achieve them. Therapy is not fun; it is hard and painful work. But well-done therapy with a well-motivated client can produce remarkable results.

Counseling is very useful when the client's problems are not too complicated and the client has other support systems in place.

I hope this helps in your understanding.

Penny et al

Answer 2

Cpunseling and therapy are interchangable words in psychology. Counseling is usually two people working together on a specific problem. Therapy is working on a long term problem that may or may not have one specific solution

Answer 3

When facing a problem, counselling is giving options to solving it, and therapy involves specific therapeutic methods.

Answer 4

IT IS BASICALLY IN THE HANDS OF THE BEST MAN OR WOMAN THAT YOU GET HELP FROM, THERE ARE IDIOTS OUT THERE EVERYWHERE WHO DON'T KNOW BEANS, YOU HAVE TO JUDGE FOR YOUR SELF BECAUSE IT IS A JUNGLE OUT THERE, I ONCE THOUGHT THAT IF THERE WAS ANSWERS THEY WOULD HAVE THEM AND THEY HAVE NOTHING TO OFFER EXCEPT THINGS THAT DON'T WORK BECAUSE THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND THE PROBLEM MOST OF THE TIME