Niall has no family here in the US and has always felt very alone Two years ago, he began attending counseling sessions with IIIC’s trained counselor, Danielle Owen, because he was having frequent mood swings that he feared would affect his relationship with his US girlfriend and two other close friends He came to the IIIC after his friend found out about the IIIC’s counseling program via a pro-bono attorney at one of the legal clinics, and his girlfriend gave him a copy of one of Danielle’s Matters of Substance columns on anger and depressionNiall reluctantly picked up the phone and called saying that he really wasn’t sure anything would help him, but he just wanted to stop his friends from worrying and “get off his back” about it READ MORE