Counselling

How you feel and how you want to feel and be.

Counsellors are qualified practitioners who focus on specific emotional difficulties that the client would like to discuss and work through to move forward. Client-led, the counsellor will use different approaches, person-centred, psychodynamic and CBT, to name a few, to help the client find emotional resolution. Looking at the past and present, healing is the main objective of this therapy which can be long or short-term. 

Counsellors are governed by a regulatory body. They must attend counselling as part of their continuous personal and professional development and attend regular supervision to ensure they are working ethically and in good practice.

Coaching

Where you are, and what you want to achieve.

Coaches focus on achieving certain goals, be it performance improvement as part of professional development, greater clarity on direction and purpose, or achieving something in a certain time frame, with guidance. Centred on the present and future, sessions can be short or long-term, dependent on the goal.

Some coaches have certification and others don’t.

Seen as a relatively ‘new profession’ coaching is unregulated in the UK, so anyone can become a coach. However, there are a growing number of coaches who are trained coaches, certified through studying and coaching a number of clients as part of their training to practice.