What to expect if i were to go to counseling?!


Question: im considering talking to my parents about seeing a therapist. i dont feel like explaining all the details of why and stuff. but if you have been to a therapist (or if you are a therapist) i just wanna know what its like. like would they just say "ok whats your problem" and expect you to just talk or something? i dont think i would be able to do that. so i just wanna know from someone who has had personal experience.


Answers: im considering talking to my parents about seeing a therapist. i dont feel like explaining all the details of why and stuff. but if you have been to a therapist (or if you are a therapist) i just wanna know what its like. like would they just say "ok whats your problem" and expect you to just talk or something? i dont think i would be able to do that. so i just wanna know from someone who has had personal experience.

I have been in counseling and I am one too. No they don't say "what's your problem". Therapy is about the client talking about what is on their mind and the therapist may ask some questions regarding what is brought out in a session.

A good therapist will ask for a basic history so they have an idea what you have be through in your life, if you have any medical conditions, etc. They may ask about your family unit, parents, siblings, etc.

It isn't something that is scary at all, it is quite refreshing because you can say anything to a therapist. Always remember that the more you can tell the therapist, the more they can understand what you are dealing with at the moment.

Unless you have a severe mental disorder or are suicidal, you don't need to go to a high priced psychiatrist or psychologist. Also if you are female, you may feel more open with another female instead of a male.

You can "interview" a counselor to see if they are on the same wave length. If you ever find that the therapist is not doing their job, leave and find another.

Good luck to you. It is a mentally healthy person that is mature who wants to deal with their issues in counseling.

The counselor would listen. If you aren't ready to spill the beans about what is bothering you, they will let you waste your time and money. Before you go, it is important that you write down what it is that you want to get out of the session. Is it sympathy? Is it help in defining your problems? Is it a solution to your problems? What is your problem? Is it likely that a therapist can help you with this problem? What are other ways that your problem could be solved? Could you solve it by hard work? By talking to a friend? At times I have thought that it would be much cheaper to get on a bus and sit next to a stanger and tell that person your problems. Of course, you can't be sure you would set next to someone who would listen. The person might answer rudely. But thinking through that scenario a few times has been helpful to me in thinking of something more practical than just talking to an expensive counselor.

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sometimes it gets very hard and i seldom get through a session without crying-in fact I have found some issues that I did not know I had- sometimes there has been awkward moments of silence but they generally lead you

Yes, I have been to a therapist, a number of times. And they're all different, as we as individuals are all different from one another. They each have their different ways to approach therapy as well. Some will talk to you back and forth, where others will expect you to do all the talking. I had to see a few before I found the one I stayed with that made me feel the most comfortable. So you might have to do the same, as they'll all be different!

simple you will talk thei will listen they will talk you will listen they will try to help you can tell them almost every thing and they cant say any thing about what you talked about so you can talk to them

Its not a scary place...I cried almost the whole time....and it was just a getting to know each other session...I live in vegas and it costs $20 per session for me...After one session I thought it would be better therapy for me to go and spend that $20 each time I felt like going to the therapist in a slot machine and pretty soon I would feel better. It's helped a lot actually, I stopped gambling (started to go broke) and I am figuring out ways to deal with things on my own.

i went to one and it is not nearly as bad as it seems. they are usually really nice and just talk about you problem but more you feelings about it. it will probably be awkward. they also talk about really random stuff like love lives,scool, sports, etc.

i used to draw pictures of dicks. my parents all thought i was possessed by some sort of dick devil, so they sent me to some therapist who was asking me all these dick questions. so for the next eight years, my parents wouldnt let me eat any foods that were shaped like dicks (ie. hotdogs, twinkies, popscicles). you know what foods are shaped like dicks? the best kinds!

My experience went like this: walk into the building...wait in a small room for someone to come and meet and you take you into another small room where you both sit down...friendly hand shaking and small talk to start off with...get asked a lot of questions about the current situation in your life...this continues with each session on a weekly or so basis and the counsellor typically will slowly go back farther and farther in your life until your childhood where they will try to pinpoint some "traumatic" experience you must have had that lead you to the chair where you sit in front of them...eventually the quack will attempt to convince you that it's not only you who is sick...but your whole family (which is very confusing because your family thought it was "just you")...the arguing that will ensue in the presence of the counsellor will eventually drive the counsellor nuts...and the counsellor will seek counselling... Sigmund Fraud





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