Drawing on relevant literature, explain what counselling and psychotherapy is, and what motivated you to train as a Humanistic and Integrative therapist?
What the books say and what I believe
The concepts of counselling and psychotherapy are not new. They were defined by numerous authors, psychologist and therapists, doctors and scientists in various pieces of work, and they all add their little touch of subjectivity. For example, Arthur S. Reber (1996) defined counselling as an umbrella that covers different processes, such as testing, interviewing, advising with the aim of helping the individual to solve problems or to make plans for future. While he saw counselling as being a generic, somehow simple concept, he understood psychotherapy as a more complex intervention, in which the therapist makes use of absolutely any techniques that have curative or palliative effects upon mental, emotional or behaviour disorder. However, in a simple or more complex form, he established that in his view, counselling and psychotherapy have a clear aim: to solve or cure one’s problem, regardless of its nature.
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He understands the importance of listening, but talks about compassion as a primordial technique. He describes the process using powerful words, such as self-awareness, warmth, depth and surface, defence and, of course, reality. These are the steps of a dance in two, where one person helps the other person to grow, while facing the pain, unmasking hidden beliefs and buried