CHILDREN COUNSELLING

Who are the children come to my chamber?

We work with hyperactivechildren who show symptoms of attention deficiency or are easily distracted, dislikes school work, gets up from seat when expected to remain seated, runs around in inappropriate situations and are unable to take part in leisure activities.

Similarly children with other behavioral symptoms such as (i)Stammering, Cluttering, excessive nail biting, nose picking, and thumb sucking or (ii) Overtly disorderly behavior sometimes associated with depressive behavior, have also benefitted for our counselling.

CHILDREN (3-11 Yrs) THROUGH PLAY THERAPY

We often use play therapy for children that are 3-11-year-old. During these sessions the child is introduced to a box full of toys. The toys have been selected to help the child create an imaginary world. Children often create themes around plays that they direct and make themselves the main character and he/she is helped or despised by supporting members of the cast. The supporting cast may include family members, school teachers, friends or neighbours that the child grows up with. In this innocent game, the child playfully narrates the story and the real story or the issues that the child is facing are revealed.

Some children love to draw and through their drawing or painting they can express deep feelings or observations about the surrounding environment and from family. The imagination and innermost feelings of the child comes out through this process.

TEENAGE / ADOLESCENT COUNSELLING

We work with teenagers who are likely to suffer from (i) Low self-esteem - deteriorating grades in school, difficulty to concentrate, (ii) Recurring ‘panic attack’ syndrome, a common teenage problem (iii) Anger towards parents, at times ventilating anger in self-destructive manner and (iv) teenagers with mild, moderate or severe depression.

PARENT COUNSELLING

Parents who become overwhelmed when faced with a difficult situation or behavioral concern of their child find the support of a professionalcounsellor helpful. Separate sessions are held for the parents of children, teenagers and adolescents to help them manage child-relatedchallenges and difficulties.

Home has the greatest influence on a child and it influences how happy, secure and stable a child’s is life will be. In addition to tending to an infant or child’s daily needs, parents are also generally responsible for helping each of their children develop life skills, social skills, and appropriate behavior, while accounting for the unique personality of each child.

Parents are provided flexible approaches that could be emphasized for raising their children. Trainingisprovided for adopting modified approaches suitable for their wards, so that guidance provided by parents become more acceptable for their children.

COUPLE COUNSELLING

We work with married couples who seek marital enrichment. Couples come individually or jointly Marriage partner come to the session before or after marriage seeking professional help to sort out many misconception regarding married life.Sessionsheld with couple with the sole purpose of restructuring and reframing marital perception.

Most of the couples attend the sessions believing that their partners are the one who needs to change and not otherwise. We try to help them realize that marital relationship is based on love, sacrifice, and compromise without resentment and the win/ lose concept does not exist in such relationships. We help couples resolve marital conflicts by showing positive ways to vent out anger towards their spouse.

FAMILY COUNSELLING

Family is a great source of support, encouragement and love but sometimes relationships within families are put under strain and family members feel isolated or overlooked. Family counseling can help, when siblings aren’t getting on, or when parents are going through a divorce or separation. Forming a new family is a challenge and it is at this point that many parents seek professional help.

Sessions with family members:when a child comes for counseling, with his/her family, we try to involve the whole family in the proper mental growth of the child. A child whether in a joint or nuclear family is attached both to the grandparents as well as parents. The child is most cases gets pampering and admonishments in diverse ways from both sides. Being disciplined in ‘Parallel’ ways often makes the child confused and he/ she vents out accumulated frustration through rude behaviors, shouting, stubbornness, throwing fits of anger.

Likewise when a couple comes for marital counseling, we try to involve the entire family of both the boy and the girl to understand the situation better. The opinion of both sides of parents is important to analyze the entire situation because parents and in laws react differently to such cases and can give a rare insight into the problems, which can turn the course of circumstances entirely. The problem thus raised needs to be analyzed from various angles by involving family member’s attaché to the couple. We try to delve into the roots of the problem which acts as conflict amidst the couples.

SERVICE THROUGH MUSIC THERAPY

Music is the food of distressed soul. Music helps to vent out pent up feelings, accumulated over time. It creates awareness, soothes nerves and awakens semblance of rationality in human minds. In ourchamber, we encourage patients to listen to their favorite music when feeling low or depressed. Music is the greatest mood enhancer ever known. Our experience has taught us that teenagers often listen to music and we connect with them by discussing their favorite music and suggest music that they may enjoy and help calm their minds.

Hindustani classical music, with different ragas, affects our mood in diverse ways. Each raga denotes certain time and seasons and can produce splendid effects if one listen to it accordingly.

Being a trained musician Gitika, is aware of the different benefits of the ragas and discuss the same with patients who come to seek her counseling.