Counseling is covered by law.

So basically, if you seek counseling, you'll be sitting down either alone or with others and talking through issues and problems. Ideally, the therapist or counselor you're working with will be skilled in helping to tease out issues and hopefully point the way to some solutions. The kinds of issues and problems that counseling can help you with range from some of the problem behaviors that you may have to some of the problems that you may be experiencing. Some people may have gone through traumatic occurrences, such as witnessing child abuse or going through another horrific experience.

Other types of issues that you frequently see in counseling include relationship issues, where people have problems in their relationships of any kind and want to use counseling to figure out how to deal with them. One of the challenges of going to counseling is determining how many sessions you might need to attend, which can range from one to 20 or more. Most people seek counseling from agencies like ours for ten sessions or less, and it's crucial that during those meetings, the counselor and client can actually discuss the issues at hand. You might even ask, "How will I know when I don't need to come here any more?" or "How will I know when this worker has resolved the issue?" Others may have a long-standing issue and come to counseling for a period of time and then need to come back at some future point in their relationship or in their life. Ideally, if you experience a problem in the relationship, you would want to be able to come back to counseling. Some people may only want one session because they really just want to be able to hear out a problem and talk it through and yet they feel that they can then move on.

If you are looking specifically at relationship issues and you are unable to bring your partner along, it may still be worthwhile to see a counselor to discuss what you can do to help encourage them to come or how you will address the issue that you have that you know perhaps. Australia then has offices all across the country and the sorts of services that get provided some are funded through the Commonwealth government some are funded through state government some are funded for specific issues and specific problems so you'd really need to contact your local office to make sure that you were going to get the right program for you but certainly we would you know we provide services to adolescents and to and to children and when you do make contacts then it would might depend on the state and territory that you're in as to then what you might expect on the first point of contact so it might be in one state then you might do that on the telephone and then you have an experienced operator there who will talk you through then what's going to be the best program the best location for you others it may be that you walk in to to a service site or a venue or or that you may ring the venue itself sometimes then you talk to perhaps somebody that works on a reception and a front desk other times you might be talking to a counselor so it just depends on really on how that on how that services is set up that what you would expect when you have that first point of contact is that you'll be treated with respect and with dignity you'll be taken seriously and that the person you're talking to will be working hard and doing the level best to make sure that they can link you with a counseling service that's going to be right for you well with relationship counseling I think that the best thing to do is to just relax and to to go in it to go into it with a with an open mind and to not be afraid also to talk with your counselor if things aren't working out for you and the counseling in the way that you think you should any good counselor should be open to those conversations and would want to be open and reflective on both their work in general and how that particular session is going without individual or family so don't be frightened to have an input into that Another crucial point to remember is that if you decide to participate in relationship counseling, you shouldn't be afraid to influence what happens and how it goes for you. If at any point you feel that the counseling isn't going in the right direction, it might not be addressing the issues you think it is, or you're not really sure what is happening, you shouldn't be afraid to talk to your counselor about it. Not only do we require that our counselors are qualified and trained, but that they also receive regular supervision, which helps to ensure the quality of the services that we provide as well as relationships, Australia counselors are trained and qualified counselors. We require that we require our tertiary qualifications as well as membership to a recognized body, there are a number of those. Australia is actively working to improve its services, and one way to do that is by actively seeking feedback from both past and present clients. As a result, it's possible that as a result of that, you might be asked to complete a feedback form, have that opportunity, or even be asked for permission if the counseling is for relationships.

Australia might follow you up because we're looking at some research or we're doing some evaluation, and you'd have the option to give him your permission or not give him your permission. Of course, if you did give him your permission, you could withdraw that at any time. This would relate to us engaging in research and evaluation to ensure that we're aware of the best services we can provide to people and, as a result, maintaining the quality of our services.