Support groups or individual counseling?

  Group counseling, involves simultaneous interaction with people typically outside the client's social and familial network: relative strangers. Sometimes the groups are homogeneous, with people in the group having similar issues, and other times they are heterogeneous, with the members having diverse background and concerns. The facilitators of groups are looking for the dynamics typically within the moment—the here and now—which reflect the current issues in the members' lives. In other words,the interaction between the members reveals the dynamics that have emerged from the family.

    While in the other hand, an individual counseling is the issues are brought forth with one therapist listening and responding to the concerns. The type of feedback that is given, or if feedback is given, is dependent on   the therapist's training. The highly personalnatureof the exchange between the therapist and the client allows for specific focus on the issuespresented. While the dynamics of the relationship between the therapist and clientare typically considered important, they can often take a while to emerge before they can have a therapeutic effect.