The advantages of telephone
counseling over in-office
face-to-face counseling are
startling. The primary
advantage is that you can
counsel with someone that is
simply not available in your
area. Some communities have
no trained marriage
counselors, and telephone
counseling is the only way
to get help. But even in
large metropolitan areas, it
is sometimes difficult to
find someone trained in a
particular method that you
trust.
The convenience and privacy
of the telephone are also
tremendous advantages.
Getting to and from a
counseling office can
sometimes take hours, and
you never know who you'll
meet in the waiting room!
Telephone counseling, on the
other hand, is something
that does not even require a
baby-sitter. Most of my
clients are able to
entertain their children
with a video while they are
talking to me.
The idea that a counselor's
physical presence is
essential to counseling
success is simply not true.
In fact, I've discovered
that I can help people by
telephone that I could never
have reached in person. They
were either too embarrassed
to come to an office, or not
motivated enough to make the
trip. But by telephone they
get all the help they need
with complete privacy and
very little initial effort.
And the results are
dramatic.
The Worry Club Help
Line 1-866-worry4u
provides confidential
emotional support, 24 hours
a day for people who are
experiencing feelings of
distress or despair,
including worry, stress and
other problems. We are here
for you if you’re worried
about something, feel upset
or confused, or you just
want to talk to someone
What happens when I
call The Worry Help Line
When you phone, we
will will not judge you or
tell you what to do. We
might ask you how you are
feeling and invite you to
talk about your feelings. We
give you the time and space
that you need to talk if you
want to.
“The person at the other
end of the phone gave time
to me to speak to me and
asked me gentle questions
and waited for my response.
It made me feel that I
wasn’t the only one that was
going through it, really,
which helped me quite a lot.
At the end of the phone call
I did feel better- not
better enough to be out of
the crisis but better in
that I felt better that I
had spoken to somebody about
it. I didn’t feel quite so
isolated.”
“I really liked the way
the woman dealt with my
problems. She was very calm
and did not judge. She
seemed to understand and
appeared generally
interested and sympathetic
with my state. I like the
way you deal with things in
a personal and anonymous
way, as it is very difficult
for me to talk about my
ongoing depression, but I
never feel pressured to do
so or say anything I am not
happy revealing.” Worry
caller
Why do people call
you?
People contact us for
completely individual
reasons. Commonly mentioned
are relationships, work,
money, stress and feeling
alone.
“It is like a sort of
safety blanket to me, as I
know that I can always talk
to someone who is not
connected to anything and
will not pre-judge me or the
situation I am in. The time
I contacted The Worry Club
was when I had all my family
around me, was in a loving
environment and was
completely ’safe’. However,
sometimes this can be the
most lonely time. I am just
so glad my mother gave me
the 1-866-worry4u number;
otherwise I don’t know what
would have happened.”
“People suggested to me
that I call The Worry Club
if I felt desperate at
night. I was feeling very
upset, I didn’t know what to
do. So I just rang the Worry
Club to see what they would
say, to see if they could
help me.” “At the end of
that day everyone deals
differently with their own
problems. Everybody’s
different.”
Why don’t people
talk to friends and family
instead?
Some people do not have the
support of friends or
family. Others do but find
that talking to someone
neutral can be beneficial.
“It can be quite
frightening when you’re very
emotionally lonely and you
can’t sleep and you can’t
call anyone because you
don’t want to disturb people
and worry them. If you
called your friends at 3am
in the morning, you would
worry them and you might
annoy them a bit. I don’t
think I could cope with that
either. And sometimes fiends
and family can’t be neutral
because they’re very
involved with you and when
you’ve been ill so long,
they may lose patience. It’s
good to be able to talk to
someone who’s kind of
neutral and not caught up in
it all.”
“I found talking things
through very helpful,
especially at a time when I
had exhausted the ears of
friends and family. It was
helpful to have someone calm
and neutral and there at all
times of the day. The
troubles and crises you find
yourself in, all seem to
overwhelm you at a time when
a friend or relative would
find it inconvenient. Also,
sometimes feelings that
overwhelm you and seem
insurmountable at night,
often seem far more
cope-able in the morning.
For that reason, talking to
The Worry Help Line is very
helpful because they don’t
continue the problem over
the time phase that you
need, as a friend might.”
How do people feel
after they have called
“It was
helpful, every time I spoke
to anybody it helped relieve
tension and frustration.”
“By my phone call I gained a
lot more confidence to be
able to lift my head up and
try to carry on with life
for the sake of my
children.”
“I think calling The
Worry Help Line gave me the
confidence in me. The fact
that somebody understood,
did not criticize, did not
palm me off, did not judge
or advise- I mean they never
really advised me to do
anything in particular, but
gave me back my confidence
in me as a person. And that
gave me the confidence to go
on.”
I am thinking of
calling. Should I?
If you think you
might benefit from
confidential emotional
support then we are here for
you. We will not judge you
if you call. We understand
that sometimes it can feel
difficult to pick up the
telephone. But once you dial
1-866-worry4u you will begin
to feel relief as you have
taken the first step in
making your life better
“I would tell anyone to
call The Worry Help Line
because they’ve always
helped me and you haven’t
got anything to lose. If
they don’t help you, it’s
just a phone call, you don’t
have to tell anyone that
you’ve called them and it’s
all anonymous. It’s worth a
try. Even if you aren’t on
the point of depression, you
can still be going through
immense pain and distress-
almost unbearable - and the
worry help line staff are
fantastic at easing your
pain.”
“It’s a step on the road
to wherever you want to go.
I was feeling very depressed
and very lonely, my life was
just going round and round
in a circle. By phoning
1-866-worry4u it was the
first step on the way
forward.”
Are you
confidential?
Everything a caller
says is confidential to The
Worry Help Line unless:
-
We have informed consent
from a caller to pass on
information
-
We are passed
information about acts
of terrorism or bomb
warnings
-
A caller attacks or
threatens or to states
they will cause bodily
harm to another
Why is there a fee
to speak to you?
We charge a fee for our
services because we believe
what we offer to you is
valuable and helpful. This
is our business, and we
determined the fee to be
very affordable. We charge
1.99 a minute, with the
first 5 minutes free. This
means you can speak for as
long as you wish or as
little as you want, or call
as often as you need. The
point is, we actually save
you money. No driving to
find a local free therapist
or community service
organization, no traffic, no
paper work, insurance forms,
private and confidential,
helpful and available
Lets face it, your stress
and worries is making your
life hard, and it affects
your life and those around
you.. For just a few
dollars, you can speak to a
professional that can help
make your life more
manageable, help you feel
better and offer you a
neutral ear to help you
regain your life.
We are here to help you
worry less so you can enjoy
life more!!
What Areas Do you
cover for help
We can speak on any topic,
below are some examples, but
not limited to.
Alcohol, Nicotine
and Other Drugs
Addiction, anger, banning,
behavior, coping, risk
takers, health consequences,
gender differences, struggle
against recovery, study of
attempts to quit, nicotine
freedom, reasons people
smoke, quitting, recovering,
concern with drinking,
influences of smoking,
teens, increases stress,
treatment and prevention,
understanding, visual
imagery used to quit, how to
stop
Cultural Competence
Multicultural society, hate
crimes.
Cyber-affairs
Crossing the line online,
cyber affairs, cyber
romance, url addiction.
Anxiety and
Depression
Anxiety disorders,
confidence, cabin fever,
depression and retirement,
panic attacks, depressed
people seek negative
results, placebo effect and
antidepressants, roots of
optimism, self-inflicted
violence, improving with
therapeutic bond, OCD, women
experience more than men
Divorce
Before you decide, child
custody and visitation,
coping with angry children,
choosing a new partner, what
went wrong, four stages of
divorce work, letting go of
anger, divorce mediation,
thoughts for divorcing
parents, emotional impact,
dad’s involvement helps.
Gays, Lesbians,
Transgender
Cyber love, defining
orientation, information off
the net, suicidal friend,
hate crimes, homophobia
cause, HIV among lesbians,
parents and children’s
orientation, AID pandemic,
intimacy group for gay men.
Holiday Stress, Anxiety and
Worry
Holidays
need not be a pain. No
matter how well we may have
weathered our basic
training, nothing can fully
prepare us for the front
lines of family gatherings.
We’re in the thick of it,
dodging live ammunition, and
fighting the urge to return
to our old, reliable
patterns that helped us to
survive while we were
growing up.
Loss, Midlife
Crisis, Aging and
Bereavement
Finding forgiveness,
fear of aging,
growing old, losing a loved
one or a love pet,
midlife crisis.
Men
Men and grief, income and
penis size, avoid being a
statistic, socialization vs.
genes, dad’s involvement
helps, are women the future.
Parenting
And baby makes three,
parenting pitfalls, can you
spoil an infant, child
custody and visitation,
anger and divorce,
dysfunctional families,
firstborns and flashbacks,
motherhood, maternal
depression, boys and girls
and math, mother-child bond,
mother’s influence on
child’s problem solving
abilities, Munchausen
Syndrome, sex education,
co-parenting, American
families changing, labeling
children gifted, OCD and
tics in children, dad’s
involvement helps, work and
family stress, working
mothers, can you spoil a
child.
Personal Growth
Happiness, anger, character,
giving and receiving
feedback, understanding and
getting support, hypnosis
for writers, journal writing
and self help, ethics in
psychotherapy, clinical
hypnotherapy, when your
therapist screws up.
Psychotherapy
Breaches in professional
ethics, can therapy help,
choosing a psychotherapist,
diagnosis, a layman’s guide,
pathological narcissism,
using popular therapies,
self-help, effective
decision making, taking
control of what you know,
violence and the power of
words.
Relationships
Fighting, gossip, gender,
well-being, choosing a new
partner, co-dependency,
developing a relationship
plan, family feuds, finding
the right person, good sex,
searching for perfection, is
love enough, stuck in a
relationship, making your
marriage work, marital
therapy, men and women
differ in tactics,
relationship with parents
impact, transforming your
relationship, violence and
the power of words, when
helping hurts, are you an
aggressive driver.
Self Confidence
Building
Feeling like you
lack
self confidence.
This can impact how you deal
with work, people, social
gatherings and more. Let us
help you build a better you.
Sex and Lust
Ways to love your mate, sex
and love addiction,
challenging our thoughts
about sex, crossing the line
online, long term
relationships and sex, good
sex, age and sexual
activity, how to tell if
it’s love or addiction,
Teens
Teens and cyberspace,
dealing with teenagers,
drastic weight losses,
hatred and youth violence,
heavy metal music and
suicide, high school
involvement, talking to your
children about violence,
when a friend has an eating
disorder, math problems,
moods and depressions,
effects of stressing
competition, tattoos and
body piercing, teenage
pregnancy, peer pressure,
chemical free teens are
Traumatic Stress
Adults molested as children,
tips to help you sleep,
adapting to blows,
co-victims of homicide,
date/acquaintance rape
prevention, self-love and
school shooting, grief, hate
crimes, mass suicides,
memories of childhood sexual
abuse, rape recovery,
homicide recovery, sex
offenders and treatment,
stalking and harassment,
suicide, trauma information
near you.
Women
Depression and creativity,
feminist therapists,
hormonal shifts, women have
higher rate of heart disease
if unknowledgeable, memory,
menopause, motherhood, rape
recovery, risk checklist for
women, abortion.
Work
Addictive organizations,
career burnout, workaholism,
job loss as an opportunity
for change, career
transitions, choosing a
career path, career
counseling, career couples,
experimental and heroic
leadership, hope, leading,
liars and schemers,
harassment, Posttraumatic
Stress Disorder, recovering
from job loss, salary
growth, self-organization.
