Does breakup counselling help? Relationship breakups come in many forms. From divorce, sudden separation or maybe after a few months of getting to know each other. Regardless of the story, you need to heal after a breakup because it can be a painful and challenging experience to overcome.
Breakup counselling can be helpful to you if your relationship is coming to or has come to an end. Here are a few reasons why it can be useful.
You can be guided through the different stages of a breakup which include denial, anger, lack of motivation and sadness. Whilst going through these stages, you may not notice that you are withdrawing from loved ones. You may be feeling like you are stuck in a cycle and a professional can help you through these stages. It can also help you get to a place of acceptance and peace.
Counselling gives you a safe place to go to when you feel like you have to talk. Yes, your friends and family care about you and want the best for you, however, they don’t have the skills necessary to guide you. You will be having thoughts and feelings that can be tricky to manage. Maybe you feel like you are bringing down the mood around loved ones. This can make you feel that you cannot express to them what you are going through. A professional can offer you a place to feel safe and share these thoughts and feelings whilst offering coping mechanisms to help you.
You may not being viewing the experience completely rationally, so when you are going through a breakup you tend to blame yourself. You may be hyper-focusing on things that you did or didn’t do. A professional can help to balance your thoughts to help you to view the situation more fairly and rationally.
Breakup counselling can help you get back to doing things you no longer have the motivation for. You may be staying in bed more, neglecting your self-hygiene routine or taking time off work and socialising. You just can’t bring yourself to do the things you used to do. Talking to a professional can help you get back to some form of normality and it can help you to discover ways of feeling like yourself again.
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