What's the difference between counselling and psychotherapy?

Counselling is often shorter term and offered for a fixed period of six or twelve weeks whereas psychotherapy tends to be longer term - often six months or a year or more.

They both work with similar issues although counselling might focus on one specific issue, perhaps a relationship breakdown, while psychotherapy will usually have a wider perspective including all areas of someone's life as well as how past experience affects the present.

Psychotherapy training is generally longer and requires a deeper engagement with the process.  There is usually a requirement for a trainee psychotherapist to engage in their own personal therapy throughout the training period.