Individual counseling can help in multiple scenarios including but not restricted to stress, confusion, conflicts, worry, anxiety, depression, grief etc.  Individual counseling can be helpful for a variety of reasons from coping with major life challenges, dealing with childhood trauma to self-improvement and greater self-understanding.

 

Highlights

 

• Professional and confidential;  warm, genuine and safe environment

• One on one meeting, usually once a week

• Collaborative goal setting

• Enhanced awareness, understanding of yourself and your emotions

• Progress towards your goals

 

In individual counseling, you and your counselor meet one on one in a private, confidential and professional setting. The counseling relationship is safe, genuine, warm and accepting where your counselor accepts you as you are without forming any judgments about you.  The counselor listens to you and tries to understand your life situation, helps you to explore your thoughts, feelings and emotions regarding your life situations.

 

The counselor would help you identify aspects of your life that you would like to change,  help identify goals for yourself, enables you to manage your challenges better; work on improving yourself/your relationships and progress on the goals that you set for yourself.You may discuss different perspectives and approaches to the challenge at hand.  You also explore and understand the emotional aspects of the situation and deal with them.

 

The counselor will work with you to help you attempt at new ways of thinking and behavior, gain greater awareness of yourself, discover personal strengths find different ways of delaying or coping with your situation.

 

The counseling process is time-bound. Each individual session may last from 50 min to 1 hour. The number of sessions would depend on your goals and your progress, but it does not go on forever either.  At regular intervals, your counselor and you would take stock of your progress towards your goals and make any adjustments if required.