What sorts of life issues?
Ones you might expect: issues, for example, involving the meaning and purpose of life; issues about one’s concept of happiness and the good life; about identity, motivation, and self-actualization; about personal goals and life direction; about self-direction versus direction by others; about being honest with oneself; about values, relationships, and commitments; about tough decisions, especially those involving mutually exclusive alternatives; about duties to others and to oneself; about reversals, endings, and new beginnings; about losses and separations, death and dying; about self-mastery, self-empowerment, and — perhaps most importantly — about self-knowledge. Philosophical Counseling takes very seriously that ancient admonition from the Oracle at Delphi: Know Thyself. Interesting, yet all this sounds rather deep.
