Why Counseling? Its Slow Death Part 6
If you have read the last five articles on the slow death of counseling, perhaps you wonder about the value of counseling overall. What does it say that only 52% of Americans utilize it? First of all, most counseling treats mental illnesses. There are hundreds of categories of mental illness. Most calls to therapists are because of the many categories of anxiety, depression or bipolar disorders. Included within these complaints are other common reasons for counseling such as substance abuse, alcoholism, anger management, transitions, guilt, and shame. Medications have long taken the place of psychotherapy for the treatment of most mental illnesses. Approximately one half of couples married or otherwise have used therapy at one time in their relationship, yet the high divorce rates continue unabated. Most couples therapy is to improve communication or provide healing for infidelity or adultery. This information does lead one to question the validity of counseling.
A few years ago, I lost a married couple to a new trend. Troubled couples were leaving counseling after one or two sessions in favor of divorce attorneys. The couples complained that counseling took too long and divorce offered a more expedient end to their misery. I quickly developed Divorce Prevention Therapy and kept all my troubled couples after that. The method produced a happier marriage in as little as seven months as opposed to the two or three years that had brought on the new trend. That experience set a new trend for me too. Within two years I created a method for saving troubled marriages in three months. I wrote a book about it but nobody bought it. Nobody believed that it could be done. Now online courses abound promising the same success but few are successful. I will tell you why tomorrow.
Lane A Stokes, LPC CounselingServicesAtlanta.com 404-487-1956
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