Receiving counseling services can be intimidating based upon the surrounding mental health stigma about mental services. This results in the outweighing benefits of counseling to go unforeseen. Counseling can be a major positive factor is steering and guiding us towards our personal goals as well as strengthening our outlook on life and relationships with others.
Positive Psychology lists the multitude of benefits for receiving different types of counseling:
General Counseling:
- Increased skills in interpersonal communication.
- Improved interpersonal relationships.
- Decreased depressive symptoms.
- Decreased anxiety symptoms.
- Reduction in pharmaceutical interventions.
- Improved quality of life
- Clarity of behavioral contribution to wellbeing.
- Reduction of suicidal ideation.
- Improvement in emotional self-regulation.
- Reduction in substance misuse.
Group Counseling:
- Improved communication and social skills
- Support network and social encouragement
- Relatability and improvements in healthy behaviors
- Increases in perspective due to diversity in group dynamics
- Affordability of care (Thimm & Antonsen, 2014)
- Safe space to develop assertiveness and appropriate boundaries through self-insight
School counseling:
- Improvements in communication
- Peer group facilitation
- Supported emotional exploration
- Advocacy for suspected neglect or abuse
- Improvements in attention and academic achievement
- Reduction in anger and behavioral outbursts
ABM provides CBRS, targeted service coordination, outpatient psychotherapy, peer supported services, family support services, medication management, and new American support. Reach out to us if you are in need or interest of services!