And about the difference between counseling and therapy: the problem with counseling is that it’s often offered by people who aren’t mental health professionals which I find totally unethical and basically scam. This technique is more about giving advise and guiding but without a deep analysis of what motivates your feelings and behaviors (mostly bc it’s imparted by people who haven’t studied for that). Therapy on the other hand, it actually depends on the orientation, but it’s usually about arriving to an understanding of your suffering and trying to work on better ways of coping and conducting in life, but again, trying to get to an understanding of the symptoms