People can come to counselling for many different reasons.
Sometimes, something has happened recently, such as a death or a relationship breakdown, sometimes there are things from the past that have not been spoken about, such as sexual abuse, and other times it can feel as though there is no ‘cause’ or ‘reason’, but things don’t feel okay.
Whatever the reason(s), counselling can be a great way to help you through a difficult time and nobody should feel that their problems are too big or too small to bring. Problems are always relative, and everyone deserves to be listened to with empathy and without judgement so that a way through can be found.
There are many examples of things people bring to counselling either as an issue in and of themselves or things that trigger other issues…