Family Counselling or Family Therapy is a treatment designed to deal with specific issues affecting the dynamic and functioning of a family. It is used to help a family through difficult phases, major changes, emotional, behavioural or mental health problems amongst family members.

A Family Counsellor is a ‘neutral’ or an objective individual whose main role present in a family counselling session is to help undo the troubled relations of a family. They help members of the family to communicate effectively, to understand the other family member’s perspective and to bridge the gap or differences between the family members.

Objectives of a Family Counsellor

  • Having a healthy discussion on issues troubling the family.
  • Diagnosing the mental and/or emotional issues.
  • Finding effective treatment strategies to alleviate the client/family’s

How can a Family Counsellor help you?

  • If a member of the family suffers from any severe mental illness like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, substance abuse disorder, etc. the family counsellor can help the other family members understand and psycho-educate and teach them ways to adjust to the psychological changes that their family member may be undergoing.
  • The family counsellor can help with issues arising from generation-gap between child-parent, child-grandparent, child-step parent, child-guardian, etc.
  • The family counsellor can help with issues arising from divorce families, blended families, nuclear families, joint families, etc.
  • The family counsellor can also help with unmarried parents, live in relationships, LGBT couples raising a family, cross- culture or religious background families, etc.
  • The family counsellor can also help with issues stemming outside the family like societal attitudes.
  • The family counsellor can also deal with issues when a member is being scapegoated, is struggling with feelings of outcast or is receiving very little support from other members of the family, etc.
  • The family counsellor helps with developing empathy and understanding towards each member of the family.
  • The family counsellor helps with addressing each and every issue contributing to the problem.
  • The family counsellor helps in solving the effects of any pattern of problems.

More importantly, Family Counselling / Family Therapy aids in improving the family relationships by:

  • Getting the family closer post, a crisis.
  • Developing honesty between every family
  • Developing trust between every family
  • Developing a supportive and empathetic family
  • Reducing sources of Tension and Stress within the family.
  • Helping family members get over painful past.
  • Encouraging family members to forgive each other.
  • Developing Conflict resolution for issues in the family.

Dr Nisha Khanna as a Family Counsellor proffers online, telephonically and face to face Counselling Services. If you are living in Delhi, India or any other part of World, you can approach us through any of these mediums. For further details visit Bye Tense, or call us at +91-9312730331