Mental health counseling involves speaking with therapists (or counselors), who are people who are trained to listen to and help a person work through problems or questions he or she may have in life.  People choose to talk to a therapist for a lot of reasons.

Some examples include:

• when they are feeling down or stressed
• when they are having trouble sleeping or concentrating in school or work
• when they are facing a stressful situation and don’t know how to handle it
• when they need help talking to family or working through problems with family or in their relationship