Counseling services provide individuals with a safe and supportive environment to explore their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Through counseling, individuals can gain insight into themselves and develop effective strategies for managing their lives. Counseling can help individuals identify and work through the issues that are causing them distress or preventing them from achieving their goals. Counselors use a variety of techniques to assist clients in understanding themselves better and finding solutions to their problems. These techniques may include cognitive-behavioral therapy, mindfulness-based approaches, psychodynamic therapy, interpersonal therapy, family systems therapy, trauma-focused therapies, and other evidence-based practices. Counselors also provide education about mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety so that clients can better understand their symptoms and learn how to manage them more effectively.