I. What is psychological counseling? People always think that only people with mental illness will go to counseling, but it is not true. Counseling focuses on the various problems that normal people encounter. Through counseling, you can make changes in your cognition, emotion and attitude, solve your psychological problems in study, work and life, so that you can better adapt to the environment and maintain your physical and mental health. B. What is the difference between counseling and psychotherapy? Psychological counseling is mainly for normal people, while psychotherapy is mainly for people with mental illness or psychological disorders. Psychological counseling focuses on the psychological problems and disturbances encountered by normal people, or people with temporary psychological imbalance in the normal population, its scope is relatively broader, and the problems involved are closely related to the daily life and behavior of ordinary people. The scope of psychotherapy is mainly for individuals or people with mental diseases or serious mental disorders, including depression, neurosis, stress disorders, sexual and psychosexual disorders, and serious emotional and behavioral disorders, etc. Psychosomatic diseases have also become suitable objects for psychotherapy. What are the specific problems addressed by the Department of Psychological Counseling and Psychotherapy? 1, depression; 2, neurosis (neurasthenia, anxiety, phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, hypochondria, etc.); 3, children and adolescents growth, learning, mental behavior disorders, psychological disorders in middle age; 4, sleep disorders, psychosomatic diseases; 5, psychological problems and psychological disorders caused by various psychosocial factors (such as family conflicts, marital crisis, interpersonal relationship disorders, etc.); 6, personality disorders, sexual function and psychosexual disorders, recovery period of mental diseases, etc. How does psychological counseling and psychotherapy work? The psychologist or psychological counselor will communicate with the visitor directly, and the family members and relatives and friends will get additional information, and if necessary, the psychological tester will be used to assess or diagnose the visitor’s situation, and then choose the appropriate psychological treatment methods (such as supportive therapy, cognitive therapy, psychoanalytic therapy, behavior therapy, family and marriage therapy, hypnotherapy, Morita therapy, etc.), and if necessary, cooperate with medication and instrumentation. (such as biofeedback therapy, CES EEG and brainwave therapy), the effect is better. Is a psychologist or counselor like a teacher, leader or parent doing ideological work? No, psychologists or counselors use psychotherapy theories, techniques and methods to select different psychotherapy methods for different visitors and carry out regular and systematic treatment; at the same time, psychologists or counselors will stand in a neutral position to analyze and solve psychological problems, disorders or diseases. Do I need psychological counseling? Anyone who faces problems or obstacles in work and study, interpersonal relationship, marriage and family, illness, disaster, death threat, etc. more or less during his or her life needs to seek solutions from a psychologist if it partially or seriously affects his or her life and causes emotional, behavioral, physical and other disturbances that he or she cannot solve.