counseling sessions
Professional emotional support
Counseling sessions are scheduled meetings between a client and a mental health professional—therapist, psychologist, or counselor—for therapeutic conversation.
The term emphasizes the recurring, structured nature of therapy: She attends weekly counseling sessions, After a few counseling sessions, he started to open up.
Sessions typically last about an hour and may continue for weeks, months, or years.
- grief counselingProfessional support through mourning
- therapyCurative mental treatment
- talk therapyPsychological treatment via conversation
- empathySharing another's emotions
- crisis interventionHelp during acute emergencies
active listening · rapport · psychoanalysis · stress reduction · support system · school counseling · intake assessment · addiction counseling · goal-setting · personal growth · career counseling · coping mechanisms · conflict resolution · confidentiality · trust-building · open-ended questions · coping · emotional regulation
- support programsrehab, drug rehab, addiction recovery, group therapy, family therapy
- recovery housinghalfway house, halfway houses, sober living, sober living home, recovery house
counseling sessionssmall talk
Polite trivial conversation
water cooler talk · chitchat · shooting the breeze · gossip · hanging out
counseling sessionsself-help
Unassisted personal development
going it alone · avoidance · denial · suffering in silence · white-knuckling
counseling sessionsverbal abuse
Harmful speech targeting someone
psychological manipulation · gaslighting · interrogation · berating · bullying