Clinical psychology belongs to the category of applied psychology and is the most vital part of psychology, including engineering psychology, educational psychology, clinical psychology and organizational management psychology. Clinical psychology is to use the knowledge and principles of psychology to help patients correct psychological and behavioral obstacles and guide and cultivate sound people through psychological consultation, so as to effectively adapt to the environment and be more creative. Clinical psychology pays attention to the measurement and evaluation of human individual's ability and characteristics, and analyzes individuals according to the collected data to support relevant conclusions. It is an important content of clinical psychology for clinical psychologists to help people with psychological problems, such as psychotherapy and psychological counseling.

Counseling psychology is a branch of psychology, which studies the process, principles, skills and methods of psychological counseling. It is an important field of applying psychological theory to guide life practice, which has obvious practicability and interdisciplinary nature and belongs to applied science.

The scope and basic functions of counseling psychology are extensive. It is not only closely related to educational psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology and medical psychology, but also intersects with pedagogy, sociology, cultural anthropology and medicine.

The research object of counseling psychology is mainly normal people, not patients. It provides relevant theoretical guidance and practical basis for solving people's psychological problems (psychological crisis, psychological load, etc.). Change people's cognition, emotion, attitude and behavior in study, work, life, health care and disease prevention, so as to better adapt to society, environment and family and improve physical and mental health.

Psychological counseling is a process to help visitors stand on their own feet through interpersonal relationships and psychological methods.

Psychotherapy is a process in which professionally trained therapists help visitors by applying relevant theories and techniques of psychotherapy on the basis of good therapeutic relationship.

Psychological counseling is a process to help people know themselves, build a healthy self-image, give full play to their potential and help others help themselves. Its main categories include: education consultation, career consultation, mental health consultation and psychological development consultation.