Counselors are strange, peculiar or crazy.

Maybe so! J Actually, we are no more strange, peculiar or crazy than anyone else. I look and act like anyone else you might run in to at Wal-Mart (and I promise not to reveal to your friends how we know each other!)

Counselors can “read my mind.”

If I could do this, I’d be basking in the tropics somewhere and there would be no need to work for a living! I have no special “powers” except a genuine sense of caring for people. (I do, however, have a cool wand in my office!)

Counselors will make me do something I don’t want to do.

The counselor is here for you, not the other way around. No one can make you do anything. You have control over what you do or don’t get from counseling.

I’d have to be pretty desperate to see a counselor.

It is true that some people wait until things are really out of sorts before coming in to see the counselor. Ask yourself - would you wait until your car was completely broke down and not drivable to bring it to a mechanic? People need preventative maintenance too!

Only crazy people see counselors.

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I can handle this on my own. I don’t need any help.

Sometimes a person may feel like a failure if s/he doesn’t sort things out for him/herself. In reality, we are social beings. No one can get through life without help of some form. Talking to the counselor is just one form of help.