BENEFITS OF
	COUNSELLING

Benefits for families

Family life is complicated for lots of people. There are issues of emotionally over-identifying with one of your children, triangulation, finding it hard to communicate your wishes and needs to various family members, feeling disconnected and disenfranchised by family members, and just generally finding family life challenging, especially when trying to balance other life pressures. It is more complicated when families become blended if things are not thought through very carefully. Counselling has the potential to provide the following benefits

• Better negotiate

• Boundary setting with children, parents, in-laws

• Giving and receiving respect from children or step-children

• Enjoy playing with your children more and utilising quality time

• Avoid getting emotionally wound up by family members

Benefits for couples

Couplehood is hard work. Often people take it for granted that when they get married their partner will know how to meet their needs. When in reality, one must know what their own needs are first, meet those that can be met themselves and communicate needs that they want to be met by their partner clearly and without confrontation. What often complicates couples ability to relate well to one another is the model that they received from their own parents.  Couples counselling has the potential to provide the following benefits:

• Identify and eliminate argument triggers

• Invigorate intimate/sex life

• Understand each others vulnerabilities better in order to reduce hurting feelings

• Enjoy couple time more

• Create more couple space

Benefits for individuals

Counselling helps to open up your mind so that you can think more clearly and creatively than ordinary. Many people have mental blockages that keep them from being able to carry a complete thought for long enough to follow it through. Counselling helps to relieve these subconscious blockages. As a result of the subconscious nature of these blockages, these manifest in unfortunate ways- with symptoms of depression, anxiety, or mental illness. Emotional blockages can keep individuals from being able to associate with others around them in healthy ways. It can keep you from being true to yourself, and make you behave in ways that you would rather not. These behaviours can keep you further away from the people you love and from connecting with potential partners.

• Gain more insight into what is keeping you from being able to sustain long term relationships

• Attain greater levels of self-esteem and self-confidence

• Understand your needs better so that you can either attract a partner that is most suited to you, or help your existing partner to better understand you

• Communicate more easily and freely

• Operate your life in a more measured and meaningful way

• Relate better to those closest to you

• Feel more spiritually nourished

• Appreciate your life on a deeper level

• Achieve a greater work/life balance

• Actualize your goals

• Have a more passionate and satisfying sex/intimate life

• Feel more emotionally connected to your partner

• Be more in control of your life

• Feel more at ease

• Utilise your resources better