Counseling is a goal based collaborative process involving a non judgemental and supportive counselor who works with you by being a good listener to your story to help you make needed changes in ways of thinking, feeling, behaving, setting viable goals, and developing strategies and plans necessary to accomplish these goals.
There are times that the challenges in our lives may lead to isolation, anxiety, depression, and other health problems. Through counseling, you can explore your alternatives, build on your strengths, and develop new skills. Your feelings and concerns about family, friends, health, and work deserve attention.
Counseling gives you the opportunity, in a quiet, supportive environment, to take the time to stop, think, and plan. With sensitive and caring feedback, you can gain new awareness and learn to deal with your challenges in new, productive ways.
Benefits of Counseling:
- Improved communication
- Enhanced relationships
- A happier family
- Peace of mind
- Improved self-esteem
- More satisfaction out of life
- Personal growth
- Improved job performance
Counseling may be helpful in any of the following areas:
- Adult relationships
- Career change
- Dealing with loss of a loved one
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Adjustment to family changes
- Parent-child relationships
- Sibling relationships
- Divorce
- Cooperative parenting between divorced parents
- Abusive relationships
- Learning Disabilities or Attention Deficit Disorder
- Trauma
Marital and Relationship Counselling
Marriage counselling aims to provide couples with the chance to examine in depth the relationship issues that are causing problems. Communication issues, major life events and the general challenges of maintaining a happy marriage are common reasons for couples to seek marriage therapy.
- Usually provided by licensed therapist know as marriage and family therapist
- Often short term
- Includes both partners, but sometimes one partner chooses to work with a therapist alone.
- To strengthen their bonds and gain better understanding of each other.
- To help couples in all types of intimate relationship
- To help couples who plan to get married
Specific issue of marriage counselling
- Communication problems
- Substance abuse
- Anger
- Conflict of child rearing or blended family
- Sexual difficulties
- Financial problem
- Infidelity
- Learn to communicate
- Effectively disagree
- Uncover larger issue
- Changing bad habits and patterns
- Building or rebuilding trust
- Younger couples
- Nonsexist and egalitarian couples
- Couples who are still love with each others
- Couples who are open to therapy and change
- Partners willing go look at themselves and their flaws
Career Counselling
Career counselling is a process that will help you to know and understand yourself and the world of work in order to make career, educational, and life decisions. It is a global approach to individuals under all aspects of their personal, professional, and social life. It provides information, counselling, and guidance service to support each and every person.
- To assist an individual to understand self
- To enable the individual about the available options
- To improve the individual ability to make decisions and changes accordingly
- To empower the individual to enhance the knowledge, skills and attitude to fit career choice
- To assist the individual in career placements
- Interests
- Skills
- Aptitudes
- People skills
- Experience
- Family traditions
- Personality
- Life goals and work value
- You are clueless about your goals in life
- You’ve just finished middle school and are prepping up for bigger challenges
- You’ve just completed class 10th and are looking forward to selecting a new stream
- Now that class 12th is over, what options do you have for colleges or work
- opportunities?
- You are now a college graduate but you’re not even close to deciding what to do next
- Your job choice didn’t work in your favour and you might get fired
- You’re in a job, maybe even doing well but you’re still unsatisfied
- You’re in a bad job that you can’t escape from
- You know what you want but feel lost with so many options
- You’ve got the talent but lack focus
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
Cognitive Therapy is a system of psychotherapy that attempts to reduce excessive emotional reactions and self-defeating behaviour, by modifying the faulty or erroneous thinking and maladaptive beliefs that underlie these reactions.
CBT is a treatment option for people with mental health problems, it is based on the idea that how we think (cognition), how we feel (emotion) and how we act (behavior) all interacts together. Specifically, our thoughts determine our feelings and our behavior.
- anxiety
- anxiety disorders such as social phobia
- obsessive-compulsive disorder or post-traumatic stress disorder
- depression
- low self-esteem
- irrational fears
- hypochondria
- substance misuse, such as smoking, drinking or other drug use
- problem gambling
- eating disorders
- insomnia
- marriage or relationship problems
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is a type of cognitive therapy which focuses on resolving emotional and behavioral problems. The goal of the therapy is to change irrational beliefs to more rational ones.
REBT encourages a person to identify their general and irrational beliefs (e.g. I must be perfect") and subsequently persuades the person to challenge these false beliefs through reality testing.
- Suicidal thoughts
- Panic attacks / panic disorder
- Generalized anxiety disorder
- Posttraumatic stress disorder
- Autism spectrum disorders
- Behavioral problems in children and adolescents
- Porn addiction
- Gambling addiction
- Grief and loss
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Family conflict
- Anger issues
- Chronic or severe stress
- Somatic complaints
- Chronic pain
- Coping with health issues (e.g. a psychiatric disorder, chronic physical illness or condition, physical disability)
- Social skills deficits
- Aggressive behavior
- Excess guilt
Motivational enhancement therapy (MET)
MET is a directive, person-centered approach to therapy that focuses on improving an individual's motivation to change. Those who engage in self-destructive behaviors may often be ambivalent or have little motivation to change such behaviors, despite acknowledging the negative impact of said behaviors on health, family life, or social functioning.
Clinical psychologists help individuals overcome their ambivalence or resistance to behavior change. Psychologists focus on increasing intrinsic motivation by raising awareness of a problem, adjusting any self-defeating thoughts regarding the problem, and increasing confidence in one's ability to change.
- Substance misuse, such as smoking, drinking or other drug use
- Porn addiction
- Gambling addiction
Behaviour therapy
Behavioral therapy is an umbrella term for types of therapy that treat mental health disorders. This form of therapy seeks to identify and help change potentially self-destructive or unhealthy behaviors. It functions on the idea that all behaviors are learned and that unhealthy behaviors can be changed. BT is a treatment approach originally derived from learning theory, which seeks to solve problems and relieve symptoms by changing behaviour and the environmental contingencies which control behaviour.
- Addiction and substance use
- Autism spectrum disorders
- Behavioral problems in children and adolescents (ADHD)
- Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
- Depression,
- Bipolar disorder
- antisocial and borderline personality disorder
- criminal actions
- Chronic or severe stress
- early-childhood education
- Chronic pain