Counseling

Counseling affords every individual the opportunity for a balanced life.

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The benefits of counseling

Counseling offers you a safe space to talk about what you are going through; facilitating your ability to reflect and make sense of difficult times, and thereby find a better way to cope.

Sometimes you may find life challenging and upsetting your well-being, or you may have trouble dealing with certain problems. We all experience personal challenges or issues in our lives and pass through challenging and difficult periods in our lives.

We can deal with these by talking to friends or family or trying to deal with things on our own. There are times when issues can’t be managed on our own or cannot be resolved by support from our friends or family. Sometimes, looking for support and help from a professional such as a counselor can be helpful.

Professional help is very beneficial when you are struggling with difficult emotions or behaviors, or you’ve been going through a very difficult time and can’t seem to get back on track. No issue is too big or too small to ask for help.

  • Improve behaviors
  • Establishing problem-solving skills
  • Decision-making power
  • Develop positive thinking

Common reasons that people seek counseling for

Professional counseling is a support process in which a person (or persons) can be helped to attain their lifestyle goals.

Group counseling

  • Marriage and relationship counseling
  • Parental counseling
  • Family counseling
  • Child and adolescent counseling

One-on-one counseling

  • Handling emotional challenges
  • Communication and relationships
  • Work and career
  • Stress, anxiety, and depression
  • Addiction
  • History of abuse
  • Confidence building
  • Grief and loss of a loved one
  • Work and career situations
  • Stress, anxiety, and depression
  • Life changes (new parenting, separation, divorce)

Why choose our counseling services

In the whole counseling process, we go through your problems in a systematic way.

The counselor helps you to address your problems positively by helping you to explain the issues, discover choices, develop approaches, and increase self-awareness.

Our main objective is to provide confidential support. This means that everything you discuss with us is private, between you and the counselor. Confidentiality is very important for successful counseling and we as professional counselors explain our policy on confidentiality.

Feelings of stress, anxiety, depression, and low self-confidence are becoming too common nowadays. Our counseling can offer practical advice for overcoming these kinds of problems, as well as permitting you the space to escape your obstructions and feelings.

  • Through a helping approach, we highlight the emotional and intellectual experience of a client.
  • Provide non-possessive warmth in a counseling environment.
  • Maintain a high degree of personal integrity, reliability, and mutual trust as a counselor.

Our professional Counseling services provide an objective, confidential space where you can discover strategies and solutions that enable you to turn things around and regain happiness and control in life.

Do I really have a mental illness?

If you have—or think you might have—a mental illness, the first thing you must know is that you are not alone.

Mental health conditions are far more common than you may think, mainly because people don’t like to, or are scared to, talk about them. A mental illness is a condition that affects a person’s thinking, feeling, behavior or mood. These conditions deeply impact day-to-day living and may also affect the ability to relate to others.

A mental health condition isn’t the result of one event. Research suggests multiple, linking causes. Genetics, environment and lifestyle influence whether someone develops a mental health condition. A stressful job or home life makes some people more susceptible, as do traumatic life events. Biochemical processes and circuits and basic brain structure may play a role, too.

None of this means that you’re broken or that you, or your family, did something “wrong.” Mental illness is no one’s fault. And for many people, recovery — including meaningful roles in social life, school and work — is possible, especially when you start treatment early and play a strong role in your own recovery process.

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