Counselling
Counselling is one of the healing modalities which involves professional relationship between the client and the trained professional.
The Counsellor with his or her active participation aims at helping the client through active listening, talking, guidance and different non-invasive therapy techniques.
Counselling does not involve any psychological tests, medications or invasive treatments.
Counselling can be done to individual, two people or more than two people like group counselling or family counselling.
Counselling can help people deal with a variety of issues, including:
- Emotions – Anger, Depression, Fear & Phobias, Anxiety, Guilt
- Sense of Loss – Money/ Person/ Health/ Property
- School difficulties – Bullying/ Groupism/ Targeting
- Study Habits – Focus, Concentration, Attention Span
- Personality Issues – Lack of Confidence, Lack of Self-Worth
- Behavioural Issues – Bad habits like nail biting, Bed Wetting, Lying
- Eating Disorders – Bulimia, Anorexia
- Parenting problems
- Addictions like smoking, drugs, alcohol, gambling, money, food etc.
- Pre-marriage/ post-marriage and any relationship challenges
- Career changes
Individual Counselling – It involves a single client coming for his or her emotional or psychological, relationship, career, de-addiction, and financial issues to get clarity and find solutions.
The Trained counsellor listens to the client passively, notes down important pointers, patterns and the possible causative factors to join the dots and then actively discusses corrective changes needed with the client.
It sometimes involves few exercises or home-works to do, where the counsellor takes regular follow ups to mark the changes achieved.
It also involves therapeutical techniques to practice at home.
It does not involve any medicinal intervention from the counsellor.
Child – Parent Counselling – It primarily involves Child as a client. But it often so happens that to know the child, the counsellor needs to know the background of the child, the parental, familial or other authoritative influence on the child and its current issues.
Many a times the problem that the child is exhibiting is mere the reaction or reflection of either of or both parental behaviours. So, it is also aiming towards parental counselling separately to understand what is exactly happening.
The small child who does not know what emotions are, might not be able to express well or tell the situation. In such conditions, parental discussion comes handy to understand the child’s behavior individually or in terms of his relation with others.
It also helps to teach parents how to handle the situation, and parents often becomes co-therapists or individual clients to work on the influential factors of the child.
Children often expresses through their stories, arts, drawing and dreams etc. they become key features to understand the child well.
Relationship Counselling – It involves relationship with self/ love partner/ wedded partner/ parents/ siblings/ friends/ colleagues/ seniors etc.
Two individuals coming from different walks of life have different thoughts, emotions, beliefs and behavioural patterns which may cause misunderstanding or friction between the two in concern.
Counsellor talks to them individually as well as together to have the clarity of perception between both the parties.
Some tasks are given to do as a homework, individually as well as together.
Pre-wedding Counselling – Eternity promotes pre-wedding counselling not only for the groom and the bride, but also for groom’s and bride’s immediate families [especially parents] as marriage happens between two families, not just two individuals.
Dr. Shilpa realized that generations old, stubborn rituals, customs and belief systems can create unnecessary mis-understandings and pressures around weddings. If ultimate aim is the happiness for the couple, then flexibilities from both the families are expected, keeping the ego ride aside.
Family Counselling – It sometimes involves all individuals staying in one family or one house.
The reason for family counselling could vary from an individual to entire family setback which affect every member of the family differently.
In this set up, individual sessions can be done separately with every member and then one common session can be held having the clarity on the topic.