Therapeutic counselling helps people improve their mental, emotional and physical health while encouraging positive relationships with self, others and the larger community. The building of a trusting and comfortable relationship between client(s) and counsellor is paramount.
Therapeutic counselling is focused on intra-psychological processes and the human experience: thinking, feeling and actions. The modes of Transactional Analysis may help to understand and wisely develop acquired behavioral and experiential patterns.
Therapy can help a person gain a new understanding about his or her problems and to acquire new ways of coping with and solving those problems. It can help a person develop new skills and to change behavioural patterns. Therapy can also contribute to an increased understanding of self and others.