Counselling Psychology

Counselling Psychology is a specialty area within psychology with a strong a emphasis on advancing positive personal and social functioning throughout the life span.

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• involved with the emotional, social, vocational, educational, health-related, developmental, and organizational concerns of people and groups of people.

• made up of a wide array of culturally-sensitive practices that are designed to help individuals increase their general mental health, lessen distress and disturbances, resolve crises, and increase the pro-social function in the individuals life.

• attend to both normal developmental issues and problematic areas associated with physical, emotional, and mental difficulty.

• practitioners posses a blended perspective in the many different practical areas of psychology. 

• therapeutic relationships used by Counselling Psychologists can be either brief or long-term, depending upon the needs of the client.

• relationships and the subsequent therapies are general problem-specific and goal-directed.