How can counselling help me and what kind of issues can it address?
Counselling can help individuals to address a wide range of issues, including:
Emotional issues: Counselling can help individuals to manage and cope with feelings of anxiety, depression, stress, and other emotional difficulties.
Relationship problems: Counselling can help individuals to improve their communication skills, resolve conflicts and build stronger, healthier relationships.
Trauma and PTSD: Counselling can help individuals to process and recover from traumatic experiences and manage symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Grief and loss: Counselling can help individuals to cope with the loss of a loved one and work through their feelings of grief.
Life transitions: Counselling can help individuals navigate and adjust to changes in their lives, such as a new job, gender transition, retirement or relocation.
Self-improvement: counselling can help individuals to set and achieve personal goals, thereby improving their self-esteem and overall feelings of well-being.
Dependency: counselling can help individuals struggling with dependency on substances or behaviours, such as drugs, alcohol, gambling, eating disorders, sex and others.
Counselling typically involves talking to a trained professional in a safe and supportive environment, and it can be short-term or long-term depending on the specific needs of the individual.