I know what you might be thinking. You might be thinking I’ve heard all this before or, worse, Oh dear, this is going to be one of those horrible motivational speaking things to get me all energised. In fact it’s neither, it’s just the story of a girl (me) who didn’t believe in counselling…until she actually tried it out.

I work at a banner stands company in the marketing company. My job is reasonably high-pressure – my days are spent trying to convince companies to buy our stands at a price which is better than our competitors. And to be honest, for a long time I wasn’t even aware I was stressed. Until one day, when my boyfriend sat me down and pointed out that whenever he did the slightest thing wrong, I exploded and bit his head off.

They don’t know you, and you can be as open as you like with them…

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