Are you looking for assistance with transforming problems in your life, or are you looking for someone to tell you what to do?
If the former, then counselling may be a helpful option for you.
If the latter, then maybe counselling is not the solution for you.
Counselling is a form of therapeutic partnership, where you and a counsellor discuss matters that are effecting you. Thinking of it as a form of consultation, both you and the counsellor conversationally attempt to understand the problems you face – a little like having a different perspective shared with you. Sometimes the counsellor might help you look into your past for examples on where the current problems first started. Sometimes the counsellor might help you look to the future to help you ponder about solutions that might help you. Sometimes the counsellor may sit and metaphorically join you in the current problems just so that you don’t need to feel alone in them.
An aim is to bring understanding to you so that you can feel less burdened by the problems, and to support you in you making your own choices about what might help change things for you for the better.
Is counselling right for you?