Even if you’re thinking, “I’m not really stressed right now and I don’t feel like I need counseling.” Starting counseling during the summer months can be beneficial in the following ways.

1. Flexible and less busy schedules.

   While summer often comes with a different kind of busy, depending on which phase-of-life you are in and your profession, generally your schedules allow more flexibility during the summer months than in the school year. Starting counseling before things get busy and stressful can help set you up for success as you learn helpful preventative stress-coping strategies like time management and learning and applying self-care routines. Counseling can provide space for doing preventative work so when the school year resumes you can be ready to do productive work by applying various concepts you learned during counseling.

2. End of the school year reflection.

   During counseling you can reflect on the previous year and make any changes needed to help you get ready for the upcoming year. Counseling can help you explore your thought life by learning to change your perspective and reset your minds resulting in a more peaceful and productive school year. We can work together to review the previous year, explore what was helpful, what was unhelpful, and what changes need to be made for you to experience the changes you want to experience during the upcoming year.

3. Getting matched with the counselor of your choice with smaller wait times.

   Starting counseling during the summer months can essentially get you your place in line with the counselor of your choice before schedules get full thus ensuring a good fit and increasing the likelihood that you are pleased with your counseling experience. You can spend time during less stressful times establishing rapport with your counselor so when the more stressful times come, the rapport is already established.

   Summer can be a great time to start counseling by creating space and time for you to do strong, productive, and preventative work with the counselor who is the best fit for you to help get you ready for the upcoming year. Get ahead of your stress by exploring how anxiety counseling can be beneficial to you.

   Thanks and take care!

   Hope