Benefits of Counseling

The main benefit of counseling is that it helps you to have a life which you can more fully enjoy and appreciate. It can help you to become the sort of person you want to be. It can also help you to more deeply enjoy your important relationships.
Counseling is a process that can assist you with:

Achieve more satisfaction in life
Having a safe place to "vent"
Increase your self-esteem
Improve your physical health
Improve your performance at school
Gain greater control over your emotions
Improve your relationships with others
Identify your abilities, qualities, hopes, and expectations and how to act on these
Understand how unhelpful patterns and cycles are negatively affecting your life
Learn new ways to deal with your concerns
Have someone listen to your concerns with care, confidentiality, and respect.
Some common counseling concerns include relationship difficulties with friends, roommates or family members; depression, stress, or anxiety; adjustment to college life; difficulty concentrating or studying; alcohol or drug use; eating concerns; sexual concerns; a variety of other issues or anything that you may want to discuss.

In our confidential sessions with you we will:

Encourage you to speak honestly
Support and guide you during tough times
Help you to cope better
Assist you with positive behavior changes
We will not...

Give you quick answers to complex concerns
Tell you what to do
Judge your behavior