Counselling Services

According to the National Center for Emotional Wellness, the term 'Emotional Wellness' refers to an awareness, understanding, and acceptance of your emotions, and your ability to manage effectively through challenges and change. When you’re tuned into your feelings, then you can more easily become aware of your bodily sensations. The more you act on your feelings and emotions, the more reliable they become. Remaining in the present moment and adhering to a sense of mindfulness, without looking back too much into the past or the future, is also very important for your emotional well-being.

Counselling helps you to be aware of your challenges through various tools and techniques, identify the root cause of the issue and options to overcome it or adapt to the situation. Through counselling, coping strategies can be learnt to handle emotions like anxiety, fear, anger, guilt, shame or self esteem and low confidence issues.

Grief is a natural response to loss. Loss can be death (even the death of a pet), breakup, divirce, seperation, loss of body parts, loss of health, financial loss or loss of friendship.

Grief encompass a range of feelings from deep sadness to anger. The process of adapting to a significant loss can vary dramatically from one person to another. It often depends on a person’s background, beliefs, and relationship to what was lost.

As per Kubler-Ross, grief has 5 stages - Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression & Acceptance. To reach acceptance, one needs to cross over the other stages. With grief counselling offers a safe & empathetic space for processing your emotions, moving forward in life while carrying the memories in a way that they dont affect the day today life. Usually grief counselling requires 3-5 sessions.

Marriage is defined as the legally or formally recognized union of two people as partners in a personal relationship. Relationship between couples (married or not) demands Love, Commitment, Trust, Time, Attention, Good Communication including Listening , Partnership, Tolerance, Patience, Openness, Honesty, Respect, Sharing, Consideration, Generosity, Willingness/Ability to Compromise etc to make it work.

There are factors like 'Role Play', 'Emotional & Physical Bond, 'Compatibility', 'Family Relationship' etc which influence the marriage/relationship. Any conflict or dissatisfaction in the relationship requires a closer & careful attention & analysis to look at the root cause of the problem. A professional counsellor facilitates the discussion between the couple to take a look at the problem objectively while helping individuals to work through their own emotional 7 behavioral issues to improve the relationship or overcome the problem.

A minimum of 3 sessions are required for marriage/relationship counselling. Counselling each partner separately & a join session. Counsellor also educates the couple with do's & don'ts in a relationship and skills required to nurture the relationship.

UNICEF defines child as any person who is below the age of 18. The rate of physical & cognitive development of a child is high as compared with adults; hence the needs of the child while growing keeps changing frequently. As the needs changes, the challenges or issues faced by child may change. While challenges & issues are part of life and learning, if the child faces emotional or behavioral issues in multiple settings, academic issues or difficult in one or more dimensions of learning, child may need a professional help to dragonize the problem.

The physical & cognitive development of a child varies from child to child. While there is no exact timeline for a developmental milestone for a child, it is important to notice any developmental delays in early stages and contact a professional counsellor. This would help with early intervention to prevent, solve or reduce the developmental delays.

Teenage is a time of rapid physical & mental changes. A teenager goes through variety of problems like identity crisis, hormonal changes, peer pressure etc. At the same time, they have lot of curiosity & energy. It is important to channelize their energies in right direction at this stage. A teenager may go through emotional issues, self esteem issues, seeking acceptance etc. Counselling at this stage helps a teenager to build skills to navigate through the challenges, confidence building and channelizes energies constructively.

Number of sessions for child counselling may vary based on child needs. Parents are also counselled as part of the child counselling, in most cases.

Life expectancy has improved due to medical advancements. This also has led to challenges in understanding and dealing with old age with respect to physical & mental changes and lifestyle challenges.

Common challenges of old age are:

1. Ageism(Physical & mental decline)

2. Lost sense of purpose

3. Financial insecurity

4. Difficulty with everyday tasks

5. Mobility & movement issues

6. Finding the right care provision

7. Fear of death

While the old age physical & mental issues if any do not have a cure, understanding the aging process and accepting it will help one to cope with it better.

A professional help comes handy here due to various reasons. A trained counsellor will listen to the elderly with empathy & non judgmental hearing. Ventilation of emotions of fear, anxiety, stress & helplessness is the first step in counselling. Counsellor also will be able to help the client to see the positive aspects of life, how they can be active and engage themselves in a constructive way, help them & their children with alternate options of care taking, especially children being away from parents due to their professional aspirations. A counsellor will also be able to identify cognitive & memory issues occurring due to old age and refer to the right medical professional for further treatment

Pre-marital counselling offers benefits to all couples who are considering a long-term commitment like marriage. Premarital counselling goal is to identify and address any potential areas of conflict in a relationship in advance, before those issues become serious concerns, and also to help partners effective strategies for discussing and resolving conflict.

Premarital counselling can also help couples to understand their expectations about marriage in a better way and address any significant differences in a safe and unbiased environment.

Benefits of Pre-marital counselling:

1. Psychological preparation for the marriage:

· Mindset for new relationships & situations

· Addresses the fear of marriage

· Clarity about live-in relationships

2. For better relationships and communication

3. Value and commitment of being in a family

4. Plan in advance for future

· Finance and money management

· Children and parenting

· Dealing with decision making and conflict resolution

· Intimacy, affection and sex

5. Influence of Individual Beliefs & Values

6. Quality Time