Counseling has been described as psychotherapy for the masses. Various schools of therapeutic practice tap into the market for personal advice and guidance. Depending on one's opinion of the counselling methods used, one could place them anywhere on a scale from New Agepseudoscience via conventional religious pastoral care to benevolent common sense.
... the time of Justinian, he was a Christian and possibly bishop of Croton. In approximately 580, he wrote "De origine actibusque Getarum[?]" (The origin and deeds of the ...