To be able to reduce stress, you need to be able to maintain some degree of control and predictability. Other ways of reducing personal stress can be via maintaining social connection to supports. We know that those who maintain connections to people or groups will often live longer than those who are socially isolated
I’ve recently been referred a client who rang me and asked me if they could ask me some questions. I told them something I say to all my new clients: “I may not necessarily be your cup of tea”. And this is important, because how clients choose a counsellor or therapist is very important, and there’s some criteria I have used in the past to identify for myself whether a counsellor I was seeing was the right fit for me.
