Exploring Self Counselling

There are many reasons why everyone should explore self-counselling. Not only does it offer a less expensive method of therapy, but it also enables each individual to experience all the positive aspects of increasing self-awareness.
Who Benefits From Self-Counselling?
People generally turn to counselling when they feel overwhelmed with the pressures of life. They may also have issues that are unresolved or concerns that are inflicting with the progress they want to make in their life. Counselling provides an opportunity to focus on identifying the cause of this anxiety and allows the individual to develop the skills to effectively manage their life in a more positive way.Being able to work through issues independently, by self-counselling, allows the individual to become more self-aware and more confident in their ability to make positive changes. Self-counselling helps people take charge and control of their life, and can provide a backup if the individual is already in counselling. It also provides a cheaper option to therapy and a good means of developing personal awareness and expression.
Being Your Own Counsellor
Being in control of making positive changes in your life requires a committed mind-set and the patience to work through issues until resolution is achieved. Whilst having a counselling relationship with a trained counsellor provides many important benefits, self-counselling allows the individual the opportunity to control the pace and intensity of the therapy sessions. Being disciplined, to work through emotional disturbances, is also an important consideration.Self-counselling is not an easy option. It can be more demanding than face-to-face counselling with a qualified therapist, because once you begin to focus on identifying and resolving problems self-counselling will be a continual process that you will be thinking about every day.
Self-Counselling Limitations
Whilst self-counselling requires an individual to become somewhat introspective and self-centred, there is only so many areas that can be explored without outside help. For instance, identifying the root cause of a long-standing issue is facilitated with greater ease by being in a counselling relationship with an experienced counsellor. Deep-seated issues will require help in order to remove them from the unconscious, so it is important to understand and accept that self-counselling may open doors to identifying these problems but may not be enough to attain resolution.A counsellor can also offer assistance with interpretations, which an individual who is self-counselling may not be able to identify or understand. Accepting that self-counselling provides an important form of additional support, to anyone undergoing counselling, or a means of exploring certain feelings and emotions will enable you to decide if you would benefit from self-counselling.
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