BSEC: Counseling

The Ethical Culture Movement reconizes that people have basic needs for communication and support at times of personal difficulty or ethical decisions. When people have a need to discuss their problems, the may turn to an Ethical Leader for counsel. The Leader is trained and experienced in listening and problem-centered counseling. If the difficulty is longer term, involving (for example) ego damage, addiction, or family disfunction, the Leader can offer sympathetic guidance and referral to other professionals.

There is a natural relation between the planning of memorial services and the counseling of a bereaved person or family. These will often take place at the same time.

There are kinds of loss and difficulty that are common in our communities, so that support groups may already exist (or may be initiated) to bring together people who have suffered death of a spouse or lover, divorce, loss of a child, loss of a job, infertility, or other painful personal losses that are better for being shared with those who really understand. If you think that you want to contact others, ask the Leader if a support group does or could exist.


	Counseling
	The Ethical Culture Movement reconizes that people have basic needs for communication and support at times of personal difficulty or ethical decisions. When people have a need to discuss their problems, the may turn to an Ethical Leader for counsel. The Leader is trained and experienced in listening and problem-centered counseling. If the difficulty is longer term, involving (for example) ego damage, addiction, or family disfunction, the Leader can offer sympathetic guidance and referral to other professionals. There is a natural relation between the planning of memorial services and the counseling of a bereaved person or family. These will often take place at the same time. There are kinds of loss and difficulty that are common in our communities, so that support groups may already exist (or may be initiated) to bring together people who have suffered death of a spouse or lover, divorce, loss of a child, loss of a job, infertility, or other painful personal losses that are better for being shared with those who really understand. If you think that you want to contact others, ask the Leader if a support group does or could exist.
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