Benefits of Seeking Mental Health Counseling

Imagine that you are experiencing an unexpected loss or a stressful situation, and you just need someone whom you can safely vent to your thoughts, emotions and pain, and who is genuine, trusting, and non-judgemental.

 That's what a mental health professional is trained to do within their professions.

Mental health counselors are trained to work with various populations including adults, men, women, elderly, teens, children, and couples. Mental health counselors also specialize in various areas including marriage and family, addiction, multicultural, career, trauma, addiction, and school counseling.

There are several benefits for seeking mental health counseling.

Reduction of stress and anxiety: Stress can cause various mental health issues including trauma, depression, anxiety, panic attacks, emotional breakdowns, pain, substance use, addiction, maladaptive coping, sleep issues, and bodily problems. When you are experiencing some type of stress and anxiety, a mental health counselor can educate you about your mental health issue and share with you tools to help reduce your anxiety and help you cope with your stress in a healthy way.

Emotional intelligence: mental health counseling can increase your level of self and emotional awareness, which are key to attaining emotional maturity. It can also help you learn self-regulation skills which can widen your window of tolerance and help you choose how to react instead of reacting impulsively. It also helps you find motivation to attain your most important goals in life. It helps you gain great level of empathy and compassion towards yourself and social skills and have better relationships.

Self-confidence and communication skills: mental health counseling can help you gain self-confidence and improve your self­ esteem. Whether you experience adverse childhood experiences, domestic or family violence, or stress, you can work on rebuilding yourself to become confident and learn to communicate assertively.

You'll gain a wide variety of tools that can help you communicate your needs, wants, and opinions assertively without having to become aggressive or passive aggressive. You'll gain balance in communicating with others without hurting yourself or others.

Establishing boundaries and greater relationships: mental health counseling can help you gain great awareness about your mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, and social boundaries and personal values within your culture. By setting personal boundaries, you get to protect yourself and you get self-respect and respect from others, and you get to make healthy relationships with others.

Clearer academic and career goals: a mental health counselor can help you gain clarity on what you want and what you want to accomplish as your career. There are several career counseling tools that a career counselor can use to help you find a career that is fulfilling and enjoyable and matches uour personality. By setting clear academic and career goals, you'll feel confident and motivated, and that will save you time and money to achieve such goals.

There are several benefits to seeking mental health counseling. At Annisa, our trained and competent mental health counselors can help you achieve your goals and discover your inner gifts and strengths.