Counsellingis one to one relationship and mutual understanding between counsellor and counselee. It’s a provision of professional assistance and guidance in resolving personal & psychological problems which help the counselee to acquire independence and develop a sense of responsibility to explore and utilize his potentialities and actualize him/her self.
Although the psychiatric use counselling as one of the techniques of treatment, whose behaviour is neurotic. Psychiatric deals with repressed individuals while counselling is concerned with normal anxieties.