It can be helpful to understand the distinction between counselling and psychotherapy. While definitions can vary, counselling is generally considered a brief intervention process that focuses on one or more problem areas in one's current life situation.

Psychotherapy is usually longer-term, and it relates your current problems to life-long and possibly multi-generational behaviour patterns and personality issues. I find that clients often begin with a straightforward issue, such as a conflict with a boss, and in the process of solving the problem realize that they in fact have a pattern of similar conflicts in other areas of their lives. With this new awareness, they may opt for a course of more in-depth psychotherapy, to understand and change these deeply rooted patterns.

Wilson Counselling Associates 1242 Landfair Crescent Oakville, Ontario L6H 2N3 Telephone:  905-842-8188