Do you feel like stress has taken over your life?

Do you often feel overwhelmed with life or work responsibilities?

Do you feel like you’ve lost your purpose?

Are you often overcome with feelings of worry and sadness?

Are you dealing with past traumas that are impacting your current relationships?

According to the National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI), one in five Americans experience mental health issues – that’s more than 40 million adults each year.

If any of the above experiences relate to how you or a loved one are feeling. Here you can learn more about our journey-focused approach to mental health counseling and its importance.

Why Is Mental Health Important?

Mental health is extremely important to living a healthy and balanced life. It includes emotional, social, and psychological factors that affect how we think, act, and feel. Mental health also regulates how we make choices, how we relate to those around us, and how we handle stress. How we deal with the bulk of our emotions, both positive and negative, comes down to what state our mental health is in. It’s something that is important from childhood, all the way through adulthood.

Mental health problems are common, but there is help available. In fact, many people struggling with mental health issues recover completely and go on to live happy and healthy lives after they’ve sought help.

Why Seek Mental Health Counseling?

There are a variety of reasons why people seek mental health counseling because there are many factors that contribute to mental health problems. Seeking help is vitally important because it will improve your quality of life.

Mental health issues have been linked to family genetics, biological factors, and life experiences. Mental health issues don’t discriminate. There is no specific type or age of persons that mental health problems affect – they can impact anyone. In addition to improved mental health, seeking mental health treatment can lead to a number of other benefits. It positively impacts your physical health by improving the immune system, regulating sleeping habits, and lowering pain levels.

Mental Health Counseling Benefits

How Can Therapy Help?

Therapy is a safe space to talk about how you’re feeling and thinking, without being judged. Oftentimes, people don’t reach out for help when they need it for fear of being criticized due to the stigma associated with mental health counseling—but that shouldn’t stop anyone from getting help.

Avoiding counseling can only lead to mental health deteriorating further. Many times, friends and family are not trained to understand or deal with mental health problems, so having someone to listen who does have experience is tremendously beneficial. At Fifth Street Counseling Center, a trained professional will help you work on understanding your thought processes, symptoms, triggers, and reactionary behaviors and help you discover the root cause for your mental health problems. There are many benefits to mental health counseling which can change your life forever.

Mental Health Counseling Benefits – With Therapy You Can:

Work on altering or permanently changing destructive behaviors.

Build interpersonal skills.

Work towards your personal goals.

Recognize triggers and learn how to properly cope with them.

Build your confidence.

Revisit your past and heal from it.

Have control over strong emotions.

Work towards rebuilding bonds with family and friends or recognize when it is time to let go of bonds which may be detrimental to your mental health.

Each therapy session will be tailored to the individual in question to better help them recover. Depending on the individual’s specific needs therapy can be short-term or long-term.