How Counselling Is Not "Just" A Friend's Advice?

Today everybody is a busy bee, we all hold our own stories to live and individualistic obstacles to deal by. Psychotherapy being an emerging domain accommodate us with multiple counseling and therapy map, letting us explore own desire and pick most suitable help for ownself, yet one most popular doubt wanders in our heads -  WHY COUNSELLING WHEN I HAVE PEOPLE AROUND TO ADVICE ??

Reaching out to your friends and family during tough times is never a NO, but you cant treat a fracture with a band-aid. Each one of us should have an adequate understanding of why and when we need professional help.

We attend to reject counseling and going to therapy for sake of money and hunt bits of advice from friends and family assuming both being alike except one charging money but NEITHER COUNSELLING IS ADVICE NOR ADVISING IS COUNSELLING!! Here are some ways how-

• The advice remains very specific and precise with WHAT YOU SHOULD DO! while counseling happens to be an open-ended process where you can look upon the situation from multiple separate corners and pick WHAT YOU CAN DO? 
• The advice gives you an idea of what OTHERS OPINION is best for you, while counseling allows you to explore and DECIDE WHAT YOU THINK is best for you, or will be best for you.
• The advice comes with JUDGEMENT, your family and friends will advise you based on your past decisions and deeds, maybe on whatsoever good or bad you did to them too while counseling assists you with a NON JUDGEMENTAL room, reason a counselor is trained to be one, to be neutral and unmoved by your personal opinions. a counselor aids you to explore your choices and see the outcome of each and every decision without judging you for any of them. 
• Being human we carry a social desirability need and hence rely profoundly on other people’s appraisals result trusting ourselves very limited. Counseling is an opportunity for you to RE-ESTABLISH that TRUST in yourself and follow your way forward.
• Advice happens to be very BIASED, no matter how much the advisor tries not to be, as your loved ones have solid emotions attached to you, hence ending up being emotional rather than RATIONAL while counseling considers individualistic personality factors and common human behavioral models, cutting any sources of biases.
• Advising involves directing the solution to a particular problem, based on other's experience while counseling takes you to the ROOT CAUSE of the problem, enabling you to not only explore and pick the desired option but also eliminating the probabilities of occurrence of problems related to that cause.  
• Advice results to be SHORT SIGHTED which cant anticipate consequences in other sectors of life. Where advising focuses on a singular problem, counseling attends you with other associated problems and spots the most desirable way to deal with them. counseling is a FAR SIGHTED process that encourages you to think through how you can manage possible outcomes before hopping to any decision. 
• Counseling is PROFESSIONAL HELP delivered to the client for their psychological and emotional problem leading to develop a positive outlook whereas advice is a piece of relevant learning given by anyone for resolving the difficulty.
• Advice is SYMPATHY while counseling is
• Advising is just giving advice, while Counselling is being in a therapeutic relationship, getting to know your client, with no advice given!
• Counseling is a GUIDED AND LEARNED skill, where information received, is investigated, ordered, patterns are identified and communicated back to the client to facilitate awareness.

NEITHER COUNSELLING IS ADVICE

NOR ADVISING IS COUNSELLING!!