What to Expect from Therapy or Counseling

When I walked nervously into my first counseling session about a year ago, I had no idea what to expect, and no idea how the process worked.  A kindly woman about my mother's age opened the conversation with, "So, what are your objectives for counseling?"  I was both confused and daunted; no one had warned me that there would be a quiz on the first day! "Um... to get better?" I stammered.  I had sought counseling mostly at my husband's insistence, because he saw that the anger, grief, and Read more [...]