A New Year is coming, but every year offers new challenges and things to look forward to. This is the time when people write New Year’s Resolutions that they hope will improve their lives, and one of those can be to begin counseling in 2025. Counseling can potentially move you toward a better place, so we will examine how counseling can help you start the New Year off right.  

You Can Discuss Unfamiliar Thoughts and Feelings

If you are having thoughts that you do not fully understand or experiencing feelings that seem strange, bringing those thoughts and feelings to a counselor will help you discover what is going on in your mind. A counselor will be the person to help you understand these thoughts and feelings, and more importantly, they will help you cope with these thoughts and feelings better than you have in this past year. 

This will advance you toward a much better place in the New Year because understanding your thoughts and feelings leads you toward recognizing the unhealthy patterns that create your mental health issues. It is the ideal way to improve the way that you have been living. 

You Will Have a Safe Place in Which to Explore Yourself

Individual counseling sessions are private, so you can discuss anything you want without concern about being overheard. This is important because you may feel uncomfortable talking about your intimate thoughts and feelings, but the confidentiality a counselor would be under can put your mind at ease.

You may have thought that counseling was something that you needed to try, but you put it off because of your concerns. Allow yourself the ability to begin counseling in the New Year so that you can make any changes that you need to make to lead a better life in 2025.

You Can Address Your Anxiety or Stress

This past year, you may have been under more stress or anxiety than you have previously. Rather than allow this to continue into the New Year, a counselor will give you strategies with which you can manage your stress and anxiety. This is highly important because elevated levels of cortisol that occur during stressful times are detrimental to your physical health so you will be improving your mental and physical well-being with counseling. 

If you have been experiencing tension in your muscles, insomnia, fatigue, and headaches, it may be because your cortisol levels are increasing and remaining high. High cortisol levels also cause you to experience mental exhaustion, depression, and mood swings. If these levels remain high over a long period, it can cause your immune system to be less effective. Improve your mental and physical health by beginning counseling in the New Year. 

You Can Find Your Purpose

At the beginning of the New Year, people like to develop a new purpose they want to accomplish during that year. A counselor can help you find yours. During your sessions, your counselor will take you on a trip through your memories, interests, beliefs, and values and help you find purpose and meaning in life and what your passions may be.

Published by Stephanie M.