The Lighthouse Clinic is a private, out-patient facility that provides high-quality Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling for a wide range of mental health issues. We aim to provide a beacon of hope and a safe harbour at times of crisis when life’s seas feel unsafe and hostile. At the Lighthouse Clinic, we believe that each person is a unique constellation of experience and heredity. As such, each person requires a therapy that is tailored to their individual needs rather than a ‘one-size fits all’ approach.
There is a difference between psychotherapy, psychotherapeutic counselling, and counselling. Much of the difference involves the training required for each qualification. Counselling generally involves a less expansive training than the other two and is a Level 2-4 academic qualification. It can be effective in cases where the issue is more specific and immediate, such as bereavement or transversing, life-changing decisions. Psychotherapeutic Counselling usually involves a three-year training and is a Level 4 to 5 academic qualification. The additional training helps the practitioner to work with deeper issues than does a Counseller. Psychotherapy is a longer, deeper training (up to 6 years) that is an academic Level 7 (Masters) qualification. Psychotherapists, while having specialty areas of interest, are qualified to work with all areas of adult mental health. This involves exploring all aspects of a person that impact the presenting issue.
Lighthouse Clinic sees the relationship between the therapist and the client as the focal point of therapy. Therefore, great care and effort are always given to build a relationship based upon honesty, trust, respect and love. Once such contact is made, the Lighthouse Clinic therapist will bring to bear their extensive training and experience in facilitating healing and growth.
Our therapists have been trained in many methods or ‘schools’ of psychotherapy and understand the value of each. But we never lose sight of the fact that it is the meeting of hearts and minds and the genuine respect and love that ensues from these meetings that are the ultimate source of healing in psychotherapy.
