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Are you stressed or bothered by problems, but keep them to yourself? Do you hold back from sharing your concerns with others because you think it won't do any good? Well, 40 years of research show that talking about your problems with a good listener really does help in most cases.
Dozens of well-done research studies have examined whether counseling is effective or not. In adding together the results of these studies (involving hundreds of counselors and tens of thousands of clients), researchers with the Institute for the Study of Therapeutic Change have found that, overall, 80% of clients reported that counseling was effective, and 54% of clients were very satisfied with the counseling they received!
Moreover, the benefits of talk therapy generally lasted for a long time — at least three years past the end of counseling.
Many of these benefits are gained in talking to other people — to pastors, friends, family members, coworkers, doctors, etc. Is there...
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