Is there a difference between counselling and psychotherapy?
Shortest answer: no. Short answer: it depends who you ask. Longer answer: Firstly, from a regulatory standpoint in the UK - you can call youself either. The titles are not (currently) protected. Secondly, however, there is a code of ethics among counsellors and psychotherapists to be members of professional bodies. In the UK, counsellors that do the standard 3 year training (a level 3 counselling certificate and a level 4 counselling training diploma) are likely to be with the BACP, NCPS or ACC. These guys can call themselves, what they like! Just like anyone who is not trained. They tend to agree with Carl R. Rogers, the founding father of the Person-Centred Aproach that counselling and psychotherapy are the same: "There has been a tendancy to use the term counselling for more casual and superficial interviews, and the reserve the term psychotherapy for more intensive and long continued contacts directed toward deeper reorganization of the personality. While there ...