As a Counselor you address in the moment, immediate issues. Like peeling an onion, there are layers of things to pull back from the tender skin and look at.

Today, we still know that darkness is cheap, easy to find, and its raw materials of despair and denial are in abundant supply.

Don’t compare their pain to anyone else’s. When we’re dealing with difficult emotions, it’s always possible to find a ‘worse’ situation as well as a similar situation.

Death is a very sad thing that God didn’t intend to ever happen to His children.