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Counseling - What is Counseling?
What is Counseling? Personal counseling is a process of self-discovery and growth. It helps us to learn more about ourselves. It can also increase our self-confidence, improve our relationships, help us to achieve our educational goals, and aid us in making good decisions for our emotional, intellectual, physical, and spiritual well-being.* Counseling is also a process that works toward changes in thought, feelings, and/or behaviors. People generally utilize counseling services to help resolve a personal problem which has not responded to other efforts. Everyone has problems at sometime in their life. Counseling is not a "quick fix" to problems people have tried very hard to resolve on their own. The process involves patience - taking the opportunity to think and talk about one's life experiences and individual issues, eventually leading to change in thought and/or behavior. Change will be the result of commitment and dedicated work by both the student and counselor. Counselors are not advice givers and will not tell you what to do. Instead, they are trained to help YOU find your own answers that are meaningful in your life. *From Texas A&M's Student Counseling Service, with their permission
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