councelling

Life would be so simple if we get everything we wanted. But as we know we often face lot of challenges… We have problems in our relationships, we have tensions at the work place, our children sometimes behave in a puzzling manner and we have no clue how to deal with them.

So many situations around us cause lot of stress. Like earlier days, just talking to friends, or relatives or elders in the family is not enough to handle these situations and often skilled advice is needed. A friend can sympathise with you, a relative or an elder one can tell you his experience in a similar situation, but they won’t be able to help you enhance your skills in handling such situations even in future.

Here a job of skilled counselor is invaluable.

A counselor is an individual who is not involved emotionally in you, like your friend or relative. He can maintain his objectivity and view your situation with more clarity.

Stress affects us in more ways than we realize. Stress distorts our perception of reality, it affects our decision making, it affects our health and behavior which in turn can cause lot of damage in our lives.

Stress affects us in more ways than we realize. Stress distorts our perception of reality, it affects our decision making, it affects our health and behavior which in turn can cause lot of damage in our lives. At such times, we need a skilled guidance to steer clear through difficult situations.

Even today we think that going to a counselor, means admitting that we have a psychological problem. Somehow we feel awkward and scared to go to a counselor.

But we need to realize that counseling cannot be done to psychologically deranged people. Counseling is for only those who are intellectual and can think and analyse and are ready to change their situation.

Counselor can make you see things more realistically and clear the fog. Counselor never makes any decisions for you, he guides as to how to make a decision in a difficult situation, he helps you deal with the conflicts you have. He makes you see your anxieties, and fears which you may be avoiding to deal and he will increase your awareness about how your internal mental processes are affecting your thinking and decision making.

When we avoid to face certain emotions or conflicts, because we find them difficult to deal with, it takes lot of our energy to keep them away from our day to day life. Such constant drain on our energy can finally cause a disease at physical level.

But if you are in touch with your internal realities, it enhances health and harmony in your system creating a sense of well being.

You can realize that it is extremely essential to have good psychological health to enjoy good physical health. And here role of counselling is very supportive and restorative.

At Niramay, we offer counselling for various stressful situations for all age groups. You will find that information on the links given on the left of this page.

Individual counselling is done for –

At personal level we need to enhance our skills to deal with various difficult situations in life. Every individual is like the centre pillar of his life, relationships, his work. We need to be strongly rooted for our lives to have harmony and balance.

Besides the guidance that you can get in any of your day to day situations,

We also offer counseling for various emotional and intellectual problems like-

Emotional Problems-

Anxiety disorders - nervousness, lack of confidence, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder,

Various fears and phobias - fear of Heart attack /cancer/disease/ injection / thieves/future/economic problems/interviews/water/heights …etc

Personality development - communication skills, assertiveness training, procrastination, anger management, Addictions, emotional instability… etc.

Intellectual problems - Lack of concentration, poor attention spans, weak memory, restlessness, hyperactivity… etc.

Stress management - Understanding stress and how it affects us, emotional intelligence, dealing with conflicts, effective decision making, time management, dealing with stress related health issues, Psychosomatic disorders.

Therapy on sexual and physical abuse.

Sports therapy - In sports Mind and body coordination is of immense importance, and hence mind and body should be in harmony and in tune with each other. Stress and tension affects the performance of the player in more than one way. Many players can't handle the physical and emotional stress of competitive sports. Many can't handle the immense tension of "the last winning stroke" and we need to prepare their minds to be stable and calm in face of victory or failure; we give all the necessary training to your mind so that your body can function at its best. We also treat injuries and muscular or joints problems arising from continuous wear and tear of the body

Personality disorders - Schizophrenia, Paranoid personality disorder, Avoidant personality disorder, Dependent personality disorder, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder and many others…

We say children are like clay, we need to shape them when they are still moldable. Hence Parenting plays an extremely important role in child's life.

Dr Meenal regularly arranges lectures and workshops for private groups, in industries and for educational or other institutes -

"Know yourself" - counseling / workshop on self discovery and enhancement of potential

"Personality development" - counseling /workshop on developing and shaping your personality for career and personal life

"Handling difficult times" - counseling / workshop on stress management, for individuals, organizations and industrial set ups.

"Handling retirement" - counseling /workshop for handling geriatric (old age )problems.

Generally, we tend to learn parenting from our parents. We adapt strategies of child disciplining that our parents used with us. Obviously we repeat the mistakes that our parents did.

Besides, we need to realize that parenting that was done twenty- thirty years ago is NOT going to work effectively for today's generation. The challenges for today's generation are different and that's why the parenting now should take a different role suitable to today's age.

At Niramay, We guide the parents about healthy parenting so as to avoid the commonly made mistakes which eventually cause some problems with children.

Preventing a problem is definitely a better strategy that solving them after creating them ourselves !!

We also guide parents who sense difficulties with their children. It is very essential for a child to have support from parents when he/ she is facing a behavioral problem.

We offer guidance in emotionally intelligent parenting, for these major areas of child development-

From infancy to age three - which is a very tender but very important and formative age and the future personality development is decided by the experiences child gets in this age.

From 3 years to Age 10 yrs (pre-teens) - very important age for disciplining and habit formation. You can make or break the child's future through your parenting.

Adolescence - Never in the child's entire life, parents feel so confused and frustrated as they are, when their child is in adolescent age. Parents don't have a clue about how to support their teenage son/ daughter without causing friction. So we offer complete guidance for the parents to understand the physical and mental changes in teenagers and how to deal with them effectively. How to effectively discipline them or how to give them sex education.

We offer counseling for parents and children for all behavioral, educational or other problems.

Emotional Problems -

Anxiety disorders - nervousness, lack of confidence, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder

Various fears and phobias - fear of Heart attack /cancer/disease/ injection / thieves/future/economic problems/interviews/water/heights …etc

Behavioral problems in children and adolescents - Negativity, defiance, stubbornness, disobedience, poor confidence, tendency to lie or steal, Stammering, nail biting, hair plucking, bed wetting, thumb sucking Sleep walking

Therapy on sexual and physical abuse in children.

Educational problems -

Lack of concentration, poor attention spans, weak memory, restlessness, hyperactivity in children and adults

Poor academic performance, fear of exams /school/ teacher , inattention in school,

Other disorders - Dyslexia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, slow learners

Sports therapy -

For children who need to handle the physical and emotional stress of competitive sports. ( Refer sports therapy in individual counseling section)

Personality disorders -

Schizophrenia, Paranoid personality disorder, Avoidant personality disorder, Dependent personality disorder, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder and many others…

Problem of divorce and single parenting -

Many parents today are faced with the unpleasant option of splitting apart which traumatizes the children beyond our imagination. Parents are so occupied with the emotional, legal, social and financial aspects of the divorce that sometimes they fail to see the agony of child's mind. We help parents to offer maximum support the child during this turbulent period and help minimize the trauma that can devastate the child.

Dr Meenal regularly arranges lectures and workshops for groups, in industries and for educational or other institutes -

"Shaping the future for your child"- counseling on healthy parenting

"Know your teenager" - counseling for adolescent age group (9 to 19), and their parents

You can invite Dr Meenal for any of these lectures or workshops arranged by you, in your school, college, industry, office or even for your individual group.

Family or Marital counselling –

With changing times even the institution of marriage is showing a changing trend.

Indian marriages particularly face different challenges as arrange marriage and joint families are quite common in India, even today.

In an arranged marriage, two people who are complete strangers suddenly come together and are supposed to share most intimate relationship, which is very difficult, especially for the wife as she enters totally unknown family with different traditions, often different lifestyle and she is supposed to adjust to all that. In such scenario, Husband needs to understand that he is the bond between the daughter in law in the house and rest of the family. Wife needs great support and understanding from the husband to be able to cope with the new family.

In a love marriage, though it is the decision of the two people in a relationship to spend their entire lives together, it has its own challenges like coping with family resistance, different cultural patterns and changing roles of partners.

Thankfully, more and more people are aware that, one has to work proactively towards any relationship to be happy and strong

It is essential for couples to understand the innate differences between men and women, their different biological and social roles to be able to understand their partners and be happy and satisfied.

Now a days we advice more and more youngsters to get involved in pre marriage counseling to avoid future frictions and disappointments.

It is so good to see that more and more couples are approaching counselors to sort out their marital issues.

At Niramay we offer counseling for various stages in relationship-

Pre-marriage counseling - for couples who need insight into various facets of married life and sex education; and prepare for the challenges faced after marriage. For individuals who need guidance in selection of the right partner for them.

For marital disharmony and disturbed communication - Developing empathetic understanding between partners, helping them to communicate and understand each other better

Handling crisis in marriage; Going through separation and divorce.

Dr Meenal regularly arranges lectures / workshops on-
"You are not what I expected" - counseling for couples - strengthening the relationship through empathy and communication

"Handling singlehood and divorce" -counseling for people who spend their lives without partners due to death, divorce or other reasons.