It is the most crucial stage of human life. Teens goes through a phase where they are unknown of the vulnerability of their thoughts, feelings, and behavior. They might be aware of their bodily changes, but the effects of these changes affect their emotional/mental being. Adolescent Counselling is done to make teens to be confident about their being (self-awareness), peer pressure, effects of social media, difference between friendship and love, answering worldly questions. This counselling also involves their parents in building up better relationship with teens, understanding the teens well and how parents can be a pillar to their teens.
Adolescent counselling has the following- Understanding biological changes/hormonal changes/ body changes/ sex education, understanding self (identity/ emotions), boosting confidence, effective communication between parents and teens, effects of social media, effects of substance abuse.
This counselling happens between the married couple. Marriage is not only about two individuals getting married, but marriages happen between two families. When no human is perfect, how can a marriage be? Yet for any marriage to work takes a lot of communication and understanding between the couples. This counselling not only deals with the problems between the couple but also the clan associated with the couples as everyone plays a vital role to make a successful marriage.
Marital counselling involves- pre-marital counselling, relationship with the spouses, relationship with the in-laws, intimacy with the spouse, erection dysfunction, self-doubt and marriage, questions related to marriage.
A position of a mother or a father is instated to them on the onset of their pregnancy. Parenting doesn’t mean that you must give birth to a child, a parent means someone who nurtures the child to its best ability. Parenting can be fun, the most beautiful feeling is to be a father or a mother, yet parenting is the most stressful job in the world. The role of being a parent and the patience it requires is another story. We parents are constantly in a dilemma, or persistently feeling guilty for every step that we take in life.
Parent counselling involves- questions on parenting, post- partum depression, self-doubt and parenting, dilemmas of parenting, how to deal with tantrums, how to make kids sleep at night, eating habits of the child, engaging kids, child development and parenting.
As the life takes us ahead, we still feel lost. Even though everything would be ok, there still be vacuum. There is a very thin line between sadness and depression. Especially, when we are about to sleep, we reflect upon many things like job, family, money, happiness, stress. Things are being invented, to make life easier yet life is giving us hard times. We are unable to name the emotions, and we suppress our thoughts. When we talk to our friends, they too are struggling with their own stress. In the lost times like these, we all need someone for a vent out. We just need some stranger to just to listen to us without being judged. Sometimes, we look for some advice from a stranger.
Individual counselling deals through the following- lifestyle counselling, stress at work, what is the purpose of our life? Who am I? Questioning happiness, questioning God. Struggling with self, coping mechanisms. Difference between being defensive vs rationalizing. Difference between thoughts and emotions and effects on our behavior. Etc.