Sometimes there is a great need for counseling, especially for individual counseling. One reason that individual counseling is successful is that it focuses only on the need of one individual. A person can have a peculiar problem and need the help of a professional counselor. Counseling also enables one to work on highly personal problems. It becomes a two-way communication in which both can talk and discuss and it can bring excellent results.
Counseling is also important because of the depth aspect involved.
The client can gain so much more from talking than just from reading information on the subject that is causing him problems. He can gets a more permanent solution. A counselor needs not only to be a trained professional but also to be such a person as to become a friend to the person being counseled. He gets to know that person and thereby the client will trust him. When a counselor is friend, one who can laugh, or sympathize, an one who seems to understand, he is well accepted.