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What is Individual Counseling?
Individual counseling is a process through which clients work one-on-one with a trained Counselor—in a safe, caring, and confidential environment—to explore their feelings, beliefs, or behaviors, work through challenging or influential memories, identify aspects of their lives that they would like to change, better understand themselves and others, set personal goals, and work toward desired change.
People seek counseling for a wide variety of reasons, from coping with major life challenges or childhood trauma, to dealing with depression or anxiety, to simply desiring personal growth and greater self-knowledge.
Who can Benefit from Individual Counselling?
The reasons for utilizing individual counselling are fairly general. That is, anyone can benefit from it regardless of their purposes. It can be from coping with grief, handling depression, psychological trauma, or even to learn more about one self. You do not need a serious excuse to see a therapist for this type of counselling, but individual counselling is not just any chat.
How does Individual counseling help?
Individual counseling involves a client to talk about their feelings, thoughts, and behaviours and things that are troubling them. For e.g. If a person is getting negative thoughts about himself that he is of no use and he has no meaning in life or feeling of low self-esteem, then in that case therapist helps them to come out of that negative pattern of thoughts. They might spend time talking about their relationships with others, the things they are good at and the things they would like to be different.
The counselor or therapist works with them to set goals or identify the things they would like to accomplish together. They will help the client to develop different strategies which may help to reach the goals. In some cases, this could mean helping the client to change patterns of thinking, learning new skills, changing behaviours, or shifting the way they feel and express emotions. For e.g. The client may be asked to listen to songs and go for walk when they get any negative thoughts. This helps them to divert their minds and keeps such thoughts away. They may also be told to write down their thoughts and feelings whenever the client feels stressed or vulnerable. The counselor or therapist might also give the client homework so that he/she can practice some of the things they are learning outside of the counseling sessions.
The number of counseling sessions, depends on the severity of the problem. The problems could be any emotional difficulties such as depression, anxiety, harassment, grief, trauma, low self-esteem, guilt, interpersonal problems, stress reactions, and problems in living. The bottom line is that they are feeling conflicted internally and are in emotional pain. They know they are in stress or problem but still unable to figure out the actual reason for that. They feel helpless for not been able to come out of the situation, which makes them more vulnerable. Although often they attribute their pain to external factors, what they may not realise is that the deeper source of their pain lies in the defences formed in childhood. The very defences that help children to survive childhood pain become the problem in adult life by restricting individuals’ pursuit of goals and close attachment.
The goal of counseling is to resolve such emotional difficulties and to make one a healthier self and to be less conflicted internally. It makes them reflect on their inner self to know who they are and what they actually goal in life. It helps them to have a clear vision of their own self.
When You Work One-on-one
Depending on what you are looking for and why you are seeking counselling in the first place, you can have anywhere from 5 sessions only or more than that over a few years.
You will be building a relationship with your counselor as you figure out who you are and what you want in your life through teamwork, communication, and expression.
Each session will involve discussions regarding situations that have bothered you, how you felt during those situations and what might have caused you to feel such emotions. These expressions are set upon your level of comfort and trust with your therapist.
The more comfortable you are with your counselor, the more you will confide in them. They will begin to understand you better and will be able to give you an analysis and the proper assistance you need for your situation.
For any kind of Individual Counseling or if you’re confused whether you need a counselor for your situation call us at +91-7773033773 or email at themokshaguru@gmail.com
