What is Therapy all about?

Detachment

Therapists and Counsellors are advised to practise detachment after each session
and stay in a professional relationship with the clients.

What is Therapy all about?

Positive Psychology

Always look on the bright side

Most of the time,
clients are preoccupied with their own issues and perceptions.

Therapists and Counsellors are to collect information
(i.e. case formulation)
and analyzed the information given.

Therapists and Counsellors will feedback and verify with clients.
They might also highlight blind spots of the clients.

Options are presented and explored with the clients.
But decisions are to be made by clients themselves.

What is Therapy all about?

Befrienders vs Counsellors

Befriending and Counselling?

What is befriending?

Befriending involves someone listening to and supporting
another person who is going through a difficult experience.
If one speaks to a Befriender,
one is in touch with another person whose experience is similar.
Befrienders are there to hear one's story;
support and encourage the other person in the journey.

Is befriending the same as counselling?

No.
Counselling is a very specific form of
therapy undertaken by trained professionals.
Although Befrienders are trained,
they are not counsellors;
they are people who have experienced a similar journey,
who understand some of what it
feels like to be in one's situation,
and so can offer genuine
understanding, empathy and emotional support.

What is Therapy all about?

The ABCDE model of REBT