- Counseling is only for mentally ill and insane people: Challenges are a part of our life. Every mentally stable people may also struggle with various difficulties so they can seek a professionals help. It is believed that the ability to realize of seeking and accepting counseling help proved a standard level of intelligence.
- Who doesn’t know me, can’t help me: Being unknown to each other is the most prominent reason why counseling is successful. Because of a psychologist is not a part of your personal life, he/she is capable of being non-judgmental and can maintain confidentiality.
- Everyone will know why I’m taking counseling: Protect clients’ confidentiality is one of the most prominent ethics in the counseling profession. So a psychologist is bound to maintain your privacy during counseling and after counseling.
- Pair counseling tries to make one person the villain: The purpose of the pair counseling is to facilitate relationship change. Rather than finding someone’s fault, pair counseling encourages both partners to make possible changes that improve their relationship.
- Counseling provides a quick solution for your problems: When it’s a matter of mental health, there is no quick solution. The core value of counseling is making positive change within ourselves and changing our thoughts, feeling, and emotion is not an easy task to do. It takes time patience, practice, and persistence.