Seeking Refuge Through Counseling

How Counseling Can Help Young Adults

While there are obvious reasons why some young adults should go to counseling, such as when they have gone through a traumatic event, there are many other reasons why young adults can benefit from counseling at places like SoCal Family Services that may not be so obvious. You can learn about some of the various ways counseling can help young adults.

Dealing with school bullying

As long as there have been schools, there has been bullying. While people in the past seemed to go through their lives without counseling or long term affects after being bullied, things have changed since then. Now, not only are students bullied while at school, but they continue to be bullied constantly via the Internet.

Bullies can be relentless, and they can get many others to join in, even those who have never even met the person being bullied. This can be too much for young adults to handle on their own and can cause them to have depression or even to self-harm. Counseling can help them work through the bullying in a productive and positive manner.

Dealing with living in a split home

More young adults have been raised in split homes now and the effects of this can be seen in a rise in teen pregnancy, low self-esteem, and other issues that can be attributed to growing up in a home where both parents were not present.

Going to counseling can help young adults work through any of the issues they may have due to lacking a parent in the home. Along with working through their own issues, counseling can also be productive with regards to helping the young adult know things they can do to possibly improve their relationships with one or both parents-- especially if one or the other is absent.

Dealing with everyday stress

Young adults will be dealing with their current stressful situations, and new ones that will appear along the way. New responsibilities, new relationships, and changes that happen as their life continues evolving will all be capable of bringing new types of stress into their life. As a young person goes to counseling, they will be learning things they can put to use as those stressors do show up. They will also have an outlet that comes in the form of their counseling sessions, so they can get help relating to the root cause of the issue that is currently bothering them.


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