Counseling can be a positive step toward the life you want to live. Meeting your goals and working through intrusive symptoms can be overwhelming, you don’t have to do this alone. Therapy can help with so many things and there are many different providers to choose from. Carolina Counseling Services makes finding the counselor that is right for you easier than ever before. 

9 of the most common reasons to see a counselor are:

1. Intrusive Symptoms: Depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, ADHD, etc. can significantly impact the way you live your life. Symptoms of a a mental health condition can affect your relationships, work, school and quality of life. While this may be true, it doesn’t have to stay this way. Therapy can provide the treatment necessary to find remission and begin living your life the way you want. 
2. Relationship Concerns: Ryan Howes, PhD, of Psychology Today says, “For most people, relationships are the main thing, and if they’re going sour, life goes sour.” Since relationships are the “main thing” in many people’s lives, not having relationships or experiencing relationship conflict can create loneliness and susceptibility to other conditions. Counseling can help you to improve your relationships and build valuable skills. 
3. Grief and Loss: Though loss is inevitable, the loss of someone or something extremely valued can devastate anyone, especially when it happens abruptly. Recovering from grief is natural, but it can be extremely overwhelming when the process is complicated or your grief gets worse.Complicated grief can make you more susceptible to depression. Counseling can be an effective intervention to facilitate healing from grief.
4. Child and Teen Concerns: For most parents, their children take center stage in their lives. If your child begins to struggle it is natural to be concerned. Counselors are capable of not only assessing a child’s symptoms and providing a diagnosis, but also providing treatments and ways to help them recover, improve their self-esteem, and become resilient and healthy.
5. Addiction: Substance use can do significant damage to a person’s brain and mental processes. It can affect their decision-making ability, social or interactive skills, behaviors, and responses to life situations. Addiction can wreak havoc on a person and their whole family. Counseling can help you to get sober and stay sober. It can also help you process the damage that addiction may have caused in your life and begin to make amends. 
6. Low Self-Esteem: Poor self-image can dramatically limit a person’s growth personally, academically and professionally. Low self-esteem can stand between you and your goals, but it doesn’t have to. Therapy can help. Having a negative view of yourself is usually related to negative thoughts, damaging relationships, and unresolved problems. A counselor can help you trace the roots of your low self-esteem, sort out and resolve past issues that continue to haunt you, and begin to accept yourself.
7. Overwhelming and Intense Emotions: Life situations, feelings, and thoughts can build up to overwhelm you. Many issues and events happening all at once can make you lose focus or feel overwhelmed. You may begin to feel that all you want is to quit and hide from everyone and everything. A therapist can help you sort out the things that are overwhelming you and resolve them one at a time. Counseling can help you better understand yourself, your feelings, and your thoughts to restore balance in your life.
8. Increasing Self-Awareness: Seeking counseling can be a proactive decision. It is a positive and empowering experience that can help you get to know yourself better. Counseling can help you understand your feelings and behavior. It can improve your resilience and help you develop the ability to stay positive regardless of whatever challenges you may face. If you are overwhelmed, improving your self-awareness can help you feel more empowered.
9. Finding Balance: Often, people experiencing an imbalance in their life are also living with difficulties and conflicts with the people around them. An imbalance results when you pay lopsided attention to the different elements of your life. As you are swamped with more obligations at work, you may neglect your personal relationships. Similarly, if you are experiencing relationship concerns, you may not perform your best at work or school. Perhaps the ultimate value of counseling is finding improved balance and harmony in your life. The positive impact of counseling can trickle down to the people closest to you, such as; your loved ones, your fellow workers or classmates.

Finding the Therapist for You

Carolina Counseling Services – Pittsboro, NC contracts with skilled licensed therapists and counselors that can help. Regardless of your reasons for seeking therapy, you deserve to find relief and achieve your goals. 

With CCS, you can find the right fit. Call today to schedule your first session. Online counseling and in person sessions are available!