Counseling Services
Offered at Embolden
Parent Child Counselling
Ever found yourself at loggerheads with a rebellious teenager or a cranky toddler?
Does your child have difficulty regulating emotions and become frustrated easily?
Do you find yourself struggling to communicate and engage in power struggles?
Does your child constantly argue or demonstrate disruptive behaviors at home and school?
Does your child constantly refuse to follow adult request?
Do you find either you or your child to be aggressive towards each other, siblings and other children?
We can help and you have come to the right space!
Parent, child and family counselling can be extremely helpful when you find yourself face significant conflict in your relationship with your child.
Family counselling and/or parent child counselling can also help when siblings aren’t getting along, when parents separate or go through a divorce, forming new families and communicating with teenagers and children.
We find it most rewarding...
When parents realize how much their children have bottled up. Once children feel safe, they begin to speak openly and frankly for the first time. It is important for parents to understand that children need to be heard and appreciate being listened to. Not having an outlet other than the family members can sometimes lead to resentment, aggression and negative feelings which badly affecting children in the longterm propelling them to make unhealthy choices.
We ensure
Confidential and non-judgmental support where parents and children are encouraged to share their feelings and work towards happier and healthier families. our counselling sessions will be constructed to meet the unique needs of your family and help every member work together as a strong team, communicate better and resolve their differences over time.
Parent child relationship therapy can help you in the following ways:
Learn how to improve parent-child communication;
Learn how to understand your child's needs;
Improve your child's listening and attention skills;
Build self esteem;
Implement effective discipline strategies at home;
Enable children to manage anger and frustration;
Foster stronger and more meaningful bonds with your child;
Identify and apply strategies and tools to improve your relationship;
Provide a non-judgmental space to vent and release bottled up feelings;
Encourage children to identify and resolve conflict with parents/ caregivers;
Enable parents and children to let of negative baggage and resentment;
Create opportunities to forgive and move forward.
Develop and implement behavior strategies to implement in collaboration with your child's school;
Counselling for Adolescents
Adolescence is one of the most important stages of human development. It is a time when young people experience several psychological, physical and identity changes during their journey to adulthood.
Teenage years in today's fast changing world results in adolescents facing challenges that parents have not experienced before or fail to understand which creates isolation, fear, anxiety and worry. Although adolescence is often stereotyped as one of the most difficult stages of life to navigate through, we feel it is important to remember that many adolescents move through this developmental stage respectfully and peacefully.
We believe that with the right tools, communication, empathy and support, adolescence can be a time of newfound independence and confident exploration.
Adolescent counselling helps young people be more aware of their feelings, behaviors and thoughts, enhances mental wellbeing and self esteem and empowers them with a skill set to make positive life choices.
Adolescents counselling support, assessment and therapy is currently offered for:
Difficulty managing anxiety/anger
Exam stress and studying
Difficulty in relationships with family and peers
Friendship issues and bullying
Grief and loss
School challenges
Self esteem issues
Learning difficulties
Peer pressure
Social isolation
Educating Educators
Our training programs enable schools and teachers to enroll for teacher empowerment sessions on select modules of interest or enroll for the entire program.
Teachers are exposed to information, literature, and research that focus on realtime issues in education which revolve around mental health awareness, child psychology, interventions to improve behavioural outcomes, identifying learning difficulties, referral systems, gender sensitization, child sexual abuse and life skills education to name a few.
Educating Educators is our answer to the current chaos in today's world of education.
As the demand for world class education increases in leaps and bounds, one of the many educational problems that almost every school faces today is a shortage of trained teachers. And one of the most common ways to deal with this shortage is by educating current teachers to enhance their awareness.
At Embolden we aim to provide a fast track solution by offering teacher training courses
To provide a fast track solution by offering teacher training courses for individuals coming from different fields or looking to upgrade their existing skill set. To provide new and existing teachers with the greatest chance of success, we offers a multi dimensional teacher preparation program that provides them with knowledge, experience, and guidance to satisfy the vast demands placed on teachers today.
What makes Educating Educators a one of a kind teacher enrichment program?
Individualized program with flexibility in terms of duration and modules.
Increases exposure to real life challenges in Education
Ongoing support and guidance through out the duration of the program.
Rigorous assignments and observations
Provides an understanding of the benchmarks for achievement
Interactive sessions Internationally trained faculty.
Carefully selected case studies and reading material to enhance knowledge
Emphasis on teacher ethics, etiquette and classroom management
Career Counselling
Sometimes you already have a job and need to determine how to make it to your dream job.
Other times, you need to determine what is important for you and identify career opportunities that are most suitable to you. At Embolden, we believe that everyone has a rewarding career that awaits! We start our journey by understanding and uncovering skills, interests, personality traits and personal values.
We are surrounded by plenty of career choices
And it can sometimes be tough to know what the best career is for you. The main goal of career counselling is enable students choose career paths that are in tune to their skills and job expectations.
With the help of career counselling
Most students choose the right career and plan to perform their level best, which ultimately helps them succeed. If you are a student and need to switch career paths or an education stream, we can help with that as well by providing ample support, motivation and guidance to make the transition as smooth as possible.
With career counselling we aim to:
Determine career goals
Develop an action plan to achieve your goals
Match interests to existing career options
Identify opportunities for internships and voluntary work in your chosen field
Position your existing experience and skill set for certain careers
Remember that life can be enjoyable and fun with the right career choice!
Identify courses and jobs that can best utilize your skill set
Maternal Mental Health
Diagnosing, assessing and treating antenatal and perinatal mental health disorders is essential for helping women make one of the biggest transitions in their lives.
We believe that it is essential for women in our society to not just survive but thrive! If you find yourself in any of the above situations, please remember you are not alone and help is here.
Motherhood is not an easy ride!
Motherhood is not an easy ride and promoting maternal mental health is an integral part of raising a healthy baby and family.
The challenging phases many mothers go through
Anxiety, Postpartum depression, miscarriage, failed IVF treatments, emotional lows and extreme mood swings, difficulty in conceiving, difficulty while feeding a baby, difficulty connecting with a baby or older child are commonly observed yet challenging phases many mothers go through.
Helping mothers to feel connected
Addressing these concerns and helping mothers feel connected and understand that they are not alone is a part of what we strive at Embolden.
Maternal health counselling is currently offered for:
Postpartum depression and anxiety
Postpartum relationship changes
Bonding with new baby or toddler
Pre-baby counselling
Relationship Counselling
Willing to create meaningful and long-lasting relationships.
Embolden offers marriage counselling, couples counselling, relationship therapy and premarital counselling sessions for couples willing to create meaningful and long-lasting relationships.
Newer ways to reconnect and communicate.
Couples therapy helps couples work through their differences in a positive and proactive manner while trying to eliminate fighting and identifying newer ways to reconnect and communicate.
Sessions are usually scheduled every week and last between one to one and a half hours.
Couples counselling has been proven in the past to help with:
Improve communication
Post traumatic/stress recovery
Improve intimacy
Learn relationship dynamics
Identify future couple goals
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) focuses on how your thoughts, feelings and emotions influence your behaviour. It also helps to manage emotions, be more mindful and learn to accept and deal with pain.
Challenge situations more clearly
CBT is an important tool which helps you identify and become aware of negative thinking patterns that affect your lifestyle and everyday choices. It enables you to identify challenging situations more clearly and respond to them in an effective manner.
We develop a customized plan
And sometimes use a wide array of other therapies such as music therapy and art therapy to help identify and cope with specific challenges in a shorter duration.
CBT has been used to help with...
Depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, phobias, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), eating disorders and Bipolar disorders to name a few.
CBT includes:
Identifying troubling and stressful situations
Identify incorrect or negative thinking patterns
Enabling you to be more aware of your thoughts and belief systems
Reframe and replace negative thinking patterns
Anxiety
We work extensively to help and treat teenagers and young adults with anxiety. With today’s age of rapid technology and extensive social networking, anxiety manifests itself through feelings of worry, pain, fear and trauma
Counselling helps you to...
Understand and accept yourself in a variety of ways that can enable you to deal with and reduce overall anxiety.
Clients are helped through
Customized plans with the help of tools such as Cognitive Behavior Therapy, meditation, mindfulness, relaxation techniques, thought stopping techniques, self exploration, and reframing unhealthy learning patterns. If you have already been diagnosed with Generalised Anxiety disorder, PTSD, Panic attacks, or Anxiety disorder, therapy will provide you with much needed healing, empathy and guidance.
Through the process of counselling and seeking help
You will be able to empower yourself to make more confident choices which will help you improve your overall quality of life.
Counselling helps those suffering with anxiety:
Identify and learn ways to reduce anxiety
Explore and deal with childhood wounds and negative memories
Gain control over unhealthy thoughts
Learn mindfulness and meditation techniques to cope with anxiety
Set goals
Depression
We all know that depression hurts and it takes extreme courage to seek help.
Depression affects more people than we know of and read about. With the right tools and support, getting back to your normal life might not be as challenging as it seems.
We can help you to reduce your depression.
At Embolden, we can help you reduce your depression and help you find purpose and meaning to life. With Cognitive Behavior Therapy, you can begin to understand how to gain control over your life and feelings.
Counselling usually involves..
Journaling thoughts and feelings, providing a non-judgmental space to vent, identifying triggers and providing tools to help cope and reduce depression.
Counselling for people with depression involves in:
Replace harmful behaviors with healthy ones
Deal with emotional baggage that contributes to depression
Build upon current strengths to become the best version of themselves
Develop a healthy and positive lifestyle
Achieve long term goals with respect to family and career
Improve self esteem
Raising Children with Special Needs
While Raising a child with special needs it is important to remember that you too need to be cared for!
Your journey as a parent from time to time will be emotionally and physically draining and requires a strong support system straddled with empathy and encouragement.
How to bond with your childs.
Never forget that it is important to make time between seemingly endless therapy sessions, doctor visits and school IEP’S to bond with your child, partner/spouse and most importantly continue living life to your fullest as challenging and difficult it may seem at the beginning.
Challenges you may face...
Fatigue, sleep deprivation, irritability, panic attacks, lack of focus are some challenges that you may face from time to time. Counselling will help you refocus on living life the way you aspire to and overcoming hurdles one step at time, one breath at a time.
Counselling for parents with special needs children focuses on:
Dealing with acceptance and learning to not compare
Understand that it is ok to make mistakes
Manage time and commitments
Improve the overall quality of your life through self care routines
Identifying the uniqueness of your child and the bond you share
Making time for marriage and important relationships
Trusting your instincts to make decisions on behalf of your child
Dealing with Comparison
Coping with stress
Functional Skills for Children with Special Needs
Functional skills are an important part of our program for children with special needs. The ability to function and live independently as an adult is an important goal we work towards for every child with special needs.
Implementing basic social skills.
We along with other therapists work with children for the implementation of basic social skills that children will utilize in their everyday life.
We work with parents to develop...
A customized plan to ensure that children will be able to vocalize, express and communicate depending on their current level of ability. Individual goals and objectives are discussed with the parents depending on their situation and available resources.
Working with a team of experts.
Basic reading and writing skills are worked with a team of experts from Nivritti, a Bodhi Valley special education initiative based in Hyderabad.
A few of the functional skills that we have worked to implement over a wide array of cases so far include:
Learning how to navigate and explore new spaces
Identification of unsafe objects and signs of danger
Learning Safe touch, unsafe touch
Identifying basic letters and reading basic text
Seeking help when lost
Being comfortable to visit and navigate public places with guidance
Life Skills Education for Adolescents
Life skills education is an excellent way to promote Mental Health among adolescents. It is a common misconception that life skills can only be picked up by children as they go through life.
Necessary tools and information
Although this maybe the case, it is sometimes important to learn these skills by equipping them with the necessary tools and information to make critical life decisions and choices.
Children with better life skills...
Are less likely to be involved in conflicts, deal better with their feelings, identify new ways to solve their problems, make conscious career choices, manage their time more effectively, recognize the impact of their choices and show lesser chances of succumbing to peer pressure, addiction and bullying.
The need to empower children
At Embolden, we understand that mothers cannot over emphasize the need to empower children and adolescents with life skills to meet the challenges of everyday life where academic success is no longer enough.
A generic set of life skills that are taught and discussed with children during sessions (group or one on one) include:
Critical thinking and creative thinking
Decision Making
Problem Solving
Self awareness and empathy
Communication and interpersonal skills
Coping with emotions and stress
School Counselling
Confused to decide between the right school environment for your child?
Which curriculum do you think suits your child better?
IB, Cambridge, CBSE, ICSE or home schooling?
What kind of a school will your chid excel in?
Is your child suited to a formal schooling approach?
Are there more innovative ways of schooling and learning?
Is unschooling an option for my child?
The choices are plenty but which curriculum and school combination can complement your home environment and child's personality?
Every curriculum and school
Has a host of benefits and opportunities but as a parent it's on you to explore the complexities each can offer.
Counselling can aid...
In the daunting process of improving clarity and awareness to make well informed decisions for your child and family.
In addition, counselling can also help you explore the following areas related to schooling:
Social and Emotional Learning
Coping Skills
Student Success
Individualized Education Plans
Identifying Learning Processes