Counseling is different from other forms of help; the focus is to enable you to clarify the issues about which you are troubled. This will involve you in exploring those issues in private with someone who is trained to listen and has no other role in your life.

Through this confidential process, your counselor will be seeking to enable you to clarify your thoughts and feelings. Counseling is a positive process, which is often associated with times of personal crisis.

It may involve talking about painful parts of your life and therefore, you may feel worse before you feel better.