For counselling you're trying to counsel someone to commit an offence. The idea is that there would be a person who you're trying to effect, but it doesn't have to have an effect on that person. For example, if I were to counsel you to commit an offence and you're an undercover police officer and there's no risk at all of the offence being committed, I would still be guilty of counselling the commission of the crime. I don't know whether that answers your question.
On April 25th, 2018. See this statement in context.