Counseling Experiences
Many couples in trouble find it immensely beneficial to talk to other couples and their experiences with marriage counseling. The difficulty in such discussions, of course, can be in finding friends and associates who have openly discussed the fact that they attended counseling and also are willing to talk about their experiences.
This situation is one of the ways that online forums have proven to be incredibly helpful to couples who want to talk with others about their counseling experiences.
Online forums offer a portal through which couples can, with relative anonymity, discuss their counseling experiences with others who are interested in the subject and looking into ways that it could possibly help their current relationship.
One poster, discussing her experience with counseling wrote:
He asks a lot of thought provoking questions and really encourages us to answer them. I needed a counselor who could see through my BS
It is interesting to note that this poster also wrote about their first counselor, who was unsupportive with her reactions to the husband’s infidelity. The first counselor considered a man’s infidelity to be a normal rite of passage for men. Obviously, the couple had a much more rewarding experience with their second counselor.
This type of discussion about counseling experience can really help couples in search of a counselor see what kind of experiences others have had and if the results were beneficial or not. This post in particular is helpful in showing others that finding the right counselor is important, and that not every counselor is going to share your belief system, which in turn gives you permission to leave them and find a therapist that works for you.
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- Counseling in the Later Years
