Counselling Assessment Session Counselling Contract Availability Cost Qualifications and Accountability Location Make contact Special Offer for Anxiety Sufferers		Counselling it is often a fact that both counselling and certain 'life issues' can have a stigma attached to them. It is not always easy or acceptable to acknowledge that you have a problem or that life in general is difficult or is getting you down. It is however a fact that life is difficult and that problems are a fact of life that need to be dealt with. he support systems in life for most people come in the form of family or friends. Although this can be invaluable at times, connections with family or friends normally always contain an emotional factor. This emotional factor can often restrict true openness to and honesty about what is happening for you, be that due to fear of upsetting the other or for any other reason. The point of value for counselling is that the counsellor exists as an independent and unconnected link to you and your life. An experienced counsellor will help you to explore who you are; your emotions, thoughts, behaviours, and experience with others, and will offer you feedback in relation to this. He or she will not hold the emotional attachment that family or friends might but will have invested a desire and commitment to work with you and to help you to resolve your presenting difficulties. There are ways that will enable you to regain control of your life and your issues, whatever they are. The first path to this is awareness. This can include an awareness of: •    where you are now and what you are struggling with •    where these issues might have first developed •    what you are doing now or what is happening in your life which might maintain these issues. If you are able to identify the cause and maintenance factors of your problems, then you are in a much stronger position to deal with the issues as they manifest in your everyday life.