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The following visualisation attempts to delimit and narrow down the field of counselling (see ssss1).

Its four axes express rather qualitative aspects (cf. Brandel-Nebehay & Russinger, 2005; Gregusch, 2013). Thus, they do not capture typically quantitative factors of counselling, such as the duration or frequency of sessions (one-time, several or up to fifty sessions; time from five minutes to one hundred and twenty minutes or more), the setting with the number of counselees (i. e. individual, couple, group or team counselling) or the specificity of the diagnostic process. Instead, the graph can be used to characterize concrete counselling via the range between the poles (1) specificity "Consulting" to "psychosocial counselling", (2) voluntariness in the use of counselling, "high voluntariness" to "low voluntariness", (3) formalisation of the setting, "formal" to "informal" setting (4) interests of the Counsellor, "own strong interests" to "no own interests" (if applicable, the term "convictions" would also fit here). I want to illustrate the four axes using the example of a freelance, practising Counsellor: