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Let's Talk!Mental health counseling’s objectives slightly overlap with those of life coaching. Both help brings positive changes into your life and will increase self-awareness. Both will help you better understand yourself and your emotions in order to deal better with situations.
The difference, however, is that counseling is about treatment, while coaching is about unlocking potential. Counseling looks into your past, while coaching focuses on your future.
Because mental health counseling focuses on the past, it offers you treatment and allows you to overcome issues that you carried to your presentation from a past event. These issues are usually obstacles that get in your way to achieve your goals or even live a happy and healthy life. The worst part of it is that usually, people are unaware of this fact. So before shaping your future, it is highly recommended that you heal from your past.
What does a Mental Health Counselor Do?
A mental health counselor will work with you to improve your mental health. It will not matter what your background and culture are, or what your sexual orientation or belief is. A counselor is trained to never judge you, and will truly understand where you come from. Moreover, a counselor understands complicated emotions and works toward helping you achieve wellness goals.
In brief, a mental health counselor will treat your disorders related to your mental and emotional health.
What is Mental Health?
Mental health is your emotional and psychological well-being, and it promotes a healthy and happy life. It is usually influenced by your past life events, genes, environment and daily habits. It affects your resilience, positivity, activity, sleep, eating habits and much more.
What Are Common Mental Health Disorders?
There are many mental health disorders that require a mental health counselor. Few are very complex, but the most common types of disorders are relatively simpler, like:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Bipolar Disorder
- Eating Disorders
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
What Are Common Symptoms of Mental Health Disorders?
Symptoms of mental health disorders vary between people and disorders. As confusing as this might sound, symptoms of mental health disorders will affect your emotions, thoughts, and behavior. There are many signs of mental health disorders that can be evident in your daily life, you might find yourself:
- Feeling sad or down
- Often confused or overthinking
- Unable to concentrate as you were able in the past
- Worrying a lot or afraid of certain things that haven’t happened yet.
- Having extreme feelings of guilt
- Moody with extreme mood swings
- Withdrawn from friends and activities
- Often tired or having low energy
- Unable to sleep or have problems sleeping
- Daydreaming, delusional, paranoid or hallucinating
- Unable to cope with daily problems
- Having trouble understanding situations and people
- Suffering from unhealthy eating habits
- Having changes in sex drive or activity
- Expressing excessive anger, hostility or even violence
- Having disturbing, negative thinking
How to Overcome Psychological Problems Through a Counselor?
A counselor will help you overcome mental health disorders through different types of interventions and treatments. The intervention is like having a discussion and will never involve any medications. So, depending on your case, a counselor designs an intervention plan, composed of sessions. You will often meet, either weekly or bi-weekly. You might find your counselor curious and will ask you questions to understand your views, thought process, behavioral patterns, and other aspects. These depend on the type of intervention that the counselor will use.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
This is the most scientifically proven method to treat depression, anxiety, OCD, negative thinking, phobias, sleep disorders, eating disorders, and many others. It is mainly a structured talk-therapy, and is a very powerful method through which you can re-wire your brain with positivity.
Humanistic Therapy
Because you look at the world with your own unique way, how you perceive things impacts your choices and actions. For that reason, it is important for the counselor to understand you, and thus, this approach emphasizes being your true self.
Acceptance and commitment Therapy
This method encourages you to embrace your own thoughts and feelings rather than fighting with yourself or feeling guilty for having them. If you are feeling insecure, worthless, or have a low self-esteem or confidence, your counselor may use this method. It will help you develop both self-acceptance and over come criticism and disapproval from others.
