Child Counseling

Child counseling is a type of therapy that focuses on young children, teens and adolescents with one or more mental illnesses. It aims at providing aids to youths, who have experienced trauma and experiencing a dysfunctional or stressful home environment. Many of the issues these children face resonate with adults facing problems in their day-to-day life, some of the common issues are anxiety, depression and grief. The goal of child counseling is to break down the problems into manageable parts, so children can better understand and cope with them. Child who has begun to act weird “out of character” and suddenly began to have developmental problems or rebel in ways that are not considered “normal behaviour” for children at that age. In addition, if your child has experienced significant trauma recently in the past like abuse, death of a loved one or pet, uprooting divorce, chronic illness etc, but has not received any child counseling for it. Counseling for child behaviour has been around since the 19th century by provision from a handful of psychotherapists from European Union and United States. Child psychotherapy is evidence based therapy and techniques with an integral approach to practices from different clinics and proven results from all over the world. Currently there are 343 techniques available and certified by the international council of psychologists(ICP).

Child must be taught how to think, not what to think

-Margaret mead

  Some of the common signs that show that your child needs counselling are- . Aggression- if your child gets easily pissed when you ask him to do something or even about their academics and alongside you are receiving a substantial increase in the amount of complaints from school about his/her involvement in fights. There are many reasons for an unprovoked aggression, he/she might be having a tough time adjusting in school or being bullied by fellow classmates. It’s been observed from our previous experience that, in most circumstances there’s an underlying generation gap among children and parents, which makes it difficult for a child to bond with a parent. In such scenarios, involvement of a mediator, who can practice activities and modulate the information to be more digestible by both the ends and teach them to continue doing it in future did wonders in family relationships. Difficulty adjusting to social situations / new situations- If your child is less likely to participate in group activities, they get comfortable easily and dont enjoy uncertainty or little shift in life and you are worried about how they may handle the future challenges where groups can be bossy, rude, impulsive etc you have reached the right place. There are some positive interventions that can enhance their social skills, our consistent programs of positive behavioral reinforcement have benefitted all the children, particularly with fragile social skills. Our education system under new education policy(NEP) didn’t proceed with involvement of social skills, which was previously thought, most of the skills are too pragmatic (rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic) but we believe students with good social skills can thrive anywhere, from forming good friendships to future profitable partnership and it should become a must have curriculum in schools. Repetitive actions- If your child is having recurrent nightmares, night terrors or facing irregular sleep patterns, leakage of urine, constantly over worrying about things and increased physical complaints shows that he/she is facing serious psychological problems. Our ever changing lifestyle and increased western influence had made us evolve and follow their approach of life “capitalist”. Due to this, children in early age demand gadgets, cosmetics and expensive items which might shake families monthly budget. Parent child counseling helps understand both sides of the story and resolve these problems with ease. Low Self-esteem- Some children may have low self-esteem due to origin, skin color, their mother tongue, their inability to speak a language fluently etc which leads them to the loop of self-doubt and struggles with self-confidence. When this occurs they start involving in distraction such as eating disorders, substance abuse, self- harm activities etc. We observe that children with low self-esteem may feel unlovable, empty and worthless, as a result they may begin to believe that their loved-ones are “better off” without them. Oftentimes it leads to suicidal indentation. Child Therapists are polite, young and experienced, they have their speciality in understanding child problems and come up with a very comfortable atmosphere for your child. We have done extensive research in the course of therapy and introduce some of the modern techniques which include dynamic activities for treatment like art therapy, sport therapy, movement therapy and mindful therapy. We understand that deciding child counselling isn’t an easy decision. As we all know our preference in deciding whether we like a subject or hate it , completely depends on the fact that how better the subject teachers are able to teach us, let us understand the concept and how better are they able to create curiosity about the subject, similarly child counseling will help your children figure out what is the cause of their anxiety or inappropriate behaviour and prepare to overcome them on their own in future, and making them ready to thrive emotionally in 21st century.

Dwell on the beauty of life watch the stars, and see yourself running with them

–Marcus Aurelius