Health Tip: Why People Seek Counseling

Counseling can be an effective way to deal with life's many problems and challenges.

The American Academy of Family Physicians says counseling may help people cope with these issues:

• Depression, grief or loss.
• Intimacy, relationships, fertility, infidelity or divorce.
• Anxiety, stress, anger, compulsion or addiction.
• Problems with family, career or phobias.
• Eating disorder, illness or chronic pain.
• Domestic violence.