Are you thinking about receiving counseling for your mental and emotional health? Counseling is a journey and everyone’s path differs. The experience that your neighbor receives from counseling is likely to differ from yours; however, there are some common potential benefits from embarking on a counseling journey.

Here are 10 potential benefits from counseling:

1. Obtaining a greater self-esteem and self-efficacy. 
2. Learning coping skills to change self-defeating behaviors and thoughts.
3. Having an improved expression and management of emotions such as anger.
4. Getting relief from depression, anxiety, or other mental health conditions.
5. Improving communication in relationships. 
6. Desensitizing unpleasant emotions felt from memories of trauma.
7. Improving decision-making skills.
8. Improving coping skills for addiction. 
9. Reducing feelings of fear.
10. Learning ways to self-sooth and calm self.