Premarital counseling helps partners improve their ability to communicate, set realistic expectations for marriage and develop conflict-resolution skills. In addition, premarital counseling can help couples establish a positive attitude about seeking help down the road.
Keep in mind that you bring your own values, opinions and history into a relationship, and they might not always match your partner's. In addition, many people go into marriage believing it will fulfill their social, financial, sexual and emotional needs — and that's not always the case. By discussing differences and expectations before marriage, you and your partner can better understand and support each other during marriage.
Early intervention is important because the risk of divorce is highest early in marriage.
Marriage Counselling is for couples who have issues, problems which they are not able to deal with, either due to lack of communications or due to environmental factors. Typically, the couple attends sessions together so that their own perspective can be understood and also their personal confusions are dealt with.
Relationship Counselling is the intervention for guiding the parties involved, to deal with the dynamics in the relations, troublesome differences and repeated patterns of imbalance leading to stress.
The Indian culture supports the joint family concept to a very large extent. Even though the pattern has changed to nuclear one in the recent past, the impact of elders in the family still persists. More so, the family members carry down lot of behavioral patterns, attitude and coping mechanisms and hence the need for family counselling. For eg., a teenage boy gets affected by the circumstances in the school and he behaves in a harsh manner or a very opposite silent manner, has a lot to do with the attitude and behavior in the family.
Counseling psychology as a psychological specialty facilitates personal and interpersonal functioning across the life span with a focus on emotional, social, vocational, educational, health-related, developmental, and organizational concerns. Through the integration of theory, research, and practice, and with a sensitivity to multicultural issues, this specialty encompasses a broad range of practices that help people improve their well-being, alleviate distress and maladjustment, resolve crises, and increase their ability to live more highly functioning lives. Counseling psychology is unique in its attention both to normal developmental issues and to problems associated with physical, emotional, and mental disorders.
Personal Counselling is a process through which clients work one-on- one with a therapist—in a safe, caring, and confidential environment—to explore their feelings, beliefs, or behaviors, work through challenging or influential memories, identify aspects of their lives that they would like to change, better understand themselves and others, set personal goals, and work toward desired change.
Health counselling includes guiding the person regarding a healthy lifestyle. Health counsellors also guide people in curing basic ailments, giving advice on nutrition and wellness, overcoming depression, women health issues etc.
Our single- minded pursuit of happiness often leads to disappointment and frustration. As we seek more wealth and material comfort, higher status and greater emotional security, we overwork our body and overstrain our mind. This eventually leads to stress. Stress Counselling endeavours to make people aware of where their happiness lies; it makes people understand their own realistic needs and desires and in the process helps them to manage their stress effectively.
Depression is the new effect of stress related activities. A person psychologically can deal with situations either by ‘Fight’ or ‘Flight’ mechanism wherein the confrontation or the running away phenomenon takes place invariably. Sometimes the person is unable to deal with either of the above situations and suddenly finds himself in a ‘Freeze’ or ‘Stuck’ situation. When the person is unable to come out of such a situation on his own, it is termed as Depression.
Suicidal thoughts are often the outcome of depression and frustration, which can be compounded by overwhelming stress. Failures in exams, a dis-satisfactory career, unstable or broken relationship are some of the reasons for suicide among youngsters. The suicidal person feels locked in a situation that is without hope and without help.
Anti- Suicidal Counselling offers the emotional support to successfully cope with suicidal thoughts. It helps the suicidal person come out of his shell and take a positive, refreshing view of life.
Anxiety is a natural reaction to stressful situation and is felt by all people at certain points in their lives. Anxiety can manifest itself both physically and psychologically. It is normal and healthy to feel sad or worried about life and its problems & pressures. But when worry overshadows everyday life you may be suffering from anxiety or depression or a mixture of the two. Mostly all people suffer from anxiety at sometime in their lives even more than those affected by depression. It is the major reason for absence from work.
Lack of clarity and vision about one’s future and career may cause a lot of imbalance in thoughts and result in stress induced anxiety. Practicing Self-Hypnosis helps in curtailing this anxiety and channelizes a person’s core strength towards his well-being.
Counselling deals with finding out the issues, the pain areas and difficulties that a person is facing. The next step to counselling is the Therapeutic Healing with various modalities like Hypnotherapy, Past Life Regression Therapy, NLP, Intuitive Healing, Chakra Healing, EFT technique and Card Readings. Counselling shows the cause of the problem, Healing Modalities neutralize the effect of the same.