Counselling generally focuses on finding strategies for coping with immediate issues like: managing anxiety, decision making, dealing with loss, coping with change, building self- esteem, & dealing with conflict . Sometimes there are deeper issues beneath these presenting issues & then psychotherapy is relevant. An example would be someone with a very harsh inner critic, so anything he/she does is never good enough. This person then presents in therapy as stressed & burnt out. No amount of self -esteem building will last until the issue of the ‘inner critic’ is worked through in psychotherapy.