In Counseling, we deal with a narrow range of very specific problems or concerns. You will probably have a clear idea of what’s bothering you and will be able to express it in words.
     We will talk about specific ways to make changes that will either solve the problem or give you skills to manage it. This process can be completed sometimes in as few as three or four sessions. Usually it takes six to twelve sessions.

Therapy deals with issues and concerns that are wider and deeper. You may have carried them with you for a long time, or you may not know exactly how to describe them. Perhaps you will only know that you feel vaguely unhappy or dissatisfied with your life. Your emotional discomfort may come from life experiences, or from thinking or behaving in particular ways for a long time.
     First, we gently “unwrap” your pain, then apply a remedy and finally nurture a way of life that will promote healing. This happens only gradually, the way an illness or wound in your body heals. People often stay in therapy from six months to two years. A term of psychotherapy longer than this is exceptional, and is more related to a kind of restructuring and sustaining of one’s whole character or personality.