People come to counselling or psychotherapy for all sorts of reasons. A significant event, such as bereavement or a relationship breakdown might be the prompt. Or there could be a desire to identify and break unhealthy patterns of behaviour.

You needn't even be clear about your reasons for starting counselling, many people experience a general sense of unhappiness, anxiety or dissatisfaction and use counselling as a way of finding out what these feelings could mean. In short, there are no ‘right' or ‘wrong' reasons - there merely has to be a willingness to take a closer look at the concerns that we cannot easily make sense of by ourselves