Clients seek counselling with wide-ranging problems, including:

• anxiety (generalised anxiety problems, panic attacks, agoraphobia, social anxiety, claustrophobia)
• workplace issues (stress, work-life imbalances)
• relationship issues (breakups, divorce, affairs, choosing inappropriate partners, loneliness, life adjustments, marital problems, arguments, jealousy, wedding and premarital issues)
• depression (including suicidal thoughts, low mood, social withdrawal)
• low self-esteem and lack of confidence
• sexual problems (impotence, internet/pornography/sex addiction, loss of desire, infertility)
• trauma (including post-traumatic stress disorder from accidents, rape and other attacks/incidents)
• obsessive-compulsive disorder
• eating problems (including bulimia, binge eating, negative body image)
  phobias and fears
• addiction and substance misuse
• abuse (including physical, verbal, and sexual abuse)
• bereavement/grief/loss.

Here are 10 tips on how to look after your mental health. We can get so wrapped up in looking after others that many of us forget to look after ourselves.

• Talk about your feelings.
• Keep active.
• Eat well.
• Drink sensibly.
• Keep in touch with family.