Modern day life has become stressful that were unknown to our forebears. But of course, they also had problems which hindered their performances and the nature and kinds of the problems were entirely different.

Modern society is getting complex day by day, with lots and lots of new problems including increased rates of divorces, crimes, drinking habits, poor eating habits, communal riots, murders, abortions, homicides, drunken driving, road mishaps, road rage, increasing levels of stress, anxieties, depression, psychiatric problems, domicile exploitations, child abuse, rape cases, child exploitation, learning problems, worsening kinds of teenage issues, increased rates of mentally challenged, autistic and learning disabled children etc.

Being composed of a conglomerate of social sub-units living uneasily with one another, numerous social and psychological problems, stresses and strains on the individual are apparent. A large number of people do not have a chance for full expression of their feelings. But from 1930’s onwards only, the formation of “helping professionals” like counseling and clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers etc. started.

These specialties generally try to deal with some of the stresses of life by applying scientifically based expertise to human behavior. Formerly many of these services were provided informally by family members, friends and other associates. In other words, informal counsellings were happening inside joint families. But when nuclear families started emerging, the natural counseling happened within the families started coming down. Simultaneously, the above said alarming rates of social problems also strongly tend to exist. Thus, a strong imbalance between emerging rates of problems and reducing family support started to exist. Thus, alarming situation exist now days.

This scenario is compensated by new age counselors and other mental health professionals. It is the general tendency of our people to just focus only on physical health, and to pay little attention to mental health. It is time over to shift focus, since majority of our diseases are psycho-somatic, which means, those kinds of physical diseases which have psychological influence. In fact, more than 50% of physical diseases can have psychological influence, which might get induced through enormous negative emotions / factors like grief, hostility, anger, frustrations, anxieties, stress etc. Thus, if along with physical treatment, psychological upliftment through alternate therapies like psychotherapies, hypnotherapy, counseling etc., one’s rate of recovery will be much faster, like those done in USA and Europe, where, an alternative therapy center will be associated with a medical center, which accelerates one’s recovery.

Also, we need to change our mindsets regarding the term “Counselling”. It is not the treatment for mentally ill, but it is a kind of guidance and provision of emotional support, thereby helping people to lead an emotionally stable and successful life, by helping them to attain healthy personalities. The stigma related to mental fitness is to be abolished from the society immediately. Instead of undergoing black magic and witchcraft, the society needs to shift to scientific therapies to overcome day today problems, through efficient therapeutic counselling.

Psycho-therapies are sets of techniques used to resolve various kinds of problems in individuals as well as groups. It may include CBT (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy), REBT (Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy), NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) etc. The kind of therapy a particular client requires will be chosen by the psycho-therapist, according to the changes the clients need. Simply put, these kinds of psycho-therapies are like medicines to empower their minds, but not connected with pharmacotherapy. If pharmacotherapy is needed for some cases, they shall be referred to a psychiatrist.

Thus counseling is a term which need not be hated, but loved. It need not be avoided, but taken in. It need not be feared, but approached, and finally it may not be considered as a mental treatment technique, but instead, it has to be considered as a life saving, life enriching technique to grow higher ups in life, and everyone has to cherish it as and when required, through enhanced power of minds, and with the proper usage of mind power, we all can do wonders.

Counselling for working professionals (Employee Support Services - EmpSup) – Additional to things mentioned in Industrial / Institutional Counseling’s heading, intended to enrich the knowledge and skills of the professionals associated with any kind of industry, it is basically a kind of EMPLOYEE SUPPORT SERVICES (EmpSup), wherein our professional counselors would interact with all the employees of the organization, thereby try to resolve their personal and professional difficulties, and it paves way for the decent functioning of the particular organization. Those who need the support can seek prior appointment with us; thereby we would visit their premises and do a case study, and put a kind of one to one interaction (EmpSup-1 To 1) plan initially. Later, the plan will be executed in a fruitful manner.

At times, group sessions on particular topics (EmpSup-Group) also shall be implemented. It adds to the overall productivity of the organization. Each and every minute, as well as every resources related to all employees shall be converted to productivity of the organization. No time and energy of the employees will be wasted, and the full efficiency of the staff will be enhanced and encouraged to work. Since both their personal as well as professional needs are being taken care through effective personal one to one interactions, they will be trained to create more working space in their brain, thus they will be sure to express adequate results. As their personal as well as professional worries are removed, they are made efficient enough to work in full throttle for the achievement of the Common Organizational Objective.

Counselling to resolve personal difficulties and build confidence, courage, energy, enthusiasm, life success etc. It is to resolve individual problems and to build healthy personalities. Even though people are not feeling well, and physicians could not find any cause for the same, people are not that much aware that, some stress, or mood disorders could be the cause, which if adequately taken care and resolved, might cure their problem.

Commonest of personal problem are depression, anxieties, stress, tensions, inferiority complex, poor personality, other psychiatric problems, insomnia (loss of sleep) etc. Such problems would eat the peace of mind of individuals, thereby that of the whole family as well. Many people run behind superstitions, pujas and all, and end up in high end misery, by sheer negligence, or lack of knowledge. And at last when they realize that it’s a medical case/psychological issue, the time might have flew away, and the person might have turned to be insane as well, and require admission at hospital for psychiatric care. There are many people in the society to misguide them, by means of God and Devil etc.

It might initiate with a simple suspicion, some delusions like someone is following him, hears some sound without any material cause, he reports somebody is following him, or someone pursues him to kill or to conspire to kill him, suspicion that spouse has immoral relationship and he/she had seen such incidents etc. Some may feel that dead persons and God speak to them, and they are God’s incarnations etc. Some feels that their thoughts are being extracted by someone. Others might feel that everywhere cameras are being fixed to capture their deeds and everyone conspire against them. Many such feelings have got psychological issues, not connected with actual God and all. All these feelings are resultant of some chemical imbalances (so called neuro-transmitters / brain chemicals) inside the brain, and if corrected adequately, such thoughts/feelings will definitely disappear. Other kind of issues are like feeling over angry, hostile, attacking tendency, over-speed, entangling with law, rule breaking tendency, disobedience, behavioral problems, substance addiction, stealing and robbery, quarrelling tendency, road rage etc., which also require adequate psychological / psychiatric guidance and support.

To resolve common problems of a group within themselves, and to help them to resolve through various group therapies. Rather than individuals try resolving their own problems, the entire group, participating group counseling will help mutually, from their experiences. Also, a team based effort will be entertained for the change. Here, groups, who might suffer from common issues, might be called, and enable / facilitate them to identify and resolve their problems mutually. Sometimes, any of the group members might have encountered similar issues, and might have gone through successfully. Such group members may be able to help others easily if we facilitate them effectively. For example, if we take few families with a common problem of alcoholism and related issues from male partners, the kind of adaptation which one family did shall be referred for the sake of other family’s benefit as well. The steps and methods followed by the successful family members shall be made use of to help others so effectively that, it remains as a proven platform with more authenticity. Similar kinds of groups shall be organized with any kinds of crowds in the society.

Family Counselling & Guidance: Family is a basic unit from where many things are created, maintained and taken along, in one’s life. From children to old people, family is a platform where many skills are developed. Strong family is the strength of all. Unlike olden ages, now there is less joint families. Instead mushrooming nuclear families are in the scene. The split of joint families into nuclear ones create innumerable problems in the society. Earlier, if any problems within the joint family, many other members include and discuss to resolve those. Since joint family concept started to evade, surmounting problems in the society started blooming up, which required professional help and support. Emerging trends in marriage expenses, divorce petitions etc. add much towards the problem. Due to such reasons, effective family counseling is a must for the society to live and be happy and healthy.

Pre-marriage and Marriage Counselling: There are incidents where lives of people are influenced by life partners. If a good adjustable partner is available, as per one’s tastes, choices and preferences, life will be a hit. If not, life will be a miss for sure. In this session, what is being done is to find the compatibility between partners (if done before marriage is the best way) and to find their compatibility index. There can be areas where some incompatibilities shall be there, but a professional counselor can find such, and if found more, can be corrected. If incompatibility is more, and its sure that it would result in ending up the relation, such people shall not be united as well, which could save lot of money, energy, time and other resources for marriage etc. Now since marriage is a huge ceremony with much expenses, such crisis shall be prevented through pre-marriage counseling. Also, experiments with life can be definitely reduced, which otherwise might end up in problems with quarrels and divorce etc. The partners will be adequately educated and prepared for facing marriage through this segment.

It is intended to help those suffering from various kinds of stress. Actually anxiety is the response to stress. If some particular stress tends to eat someone, it appears apparently in the form of anxiety. This area attracts special attention now days, since almost all are suffering from some kinds of stress related disorders. The stress can have chances to get released through various parts of the body. Some might end up in chronic headaches, stomach problems, cardiovascular problems, breathing problems, frequent pains, hiccups, belching, diabetes, hypertension and many more, if he is a victim of stress disorder. His concentration and memory tend to decrease, his attention span tend to reduce, his sleep and appetite might get affected, and many more things have chances to happen. Stress eats one’s physical as well as mental well-being , which in turn might affect his social and spiritual well-being as well. Thus, adequate stress management is the need of the hour, since alarming rates of above said things are getting increased day by day.

To enhance behavior and academics. There are various kinds of problems pertaining to students including learning disabilities, conduct disorders, general poor interest to studies, poor memory retention, adolescent issues along with problems mentioned in Personal Counselling etc. this segment tries to elucidate the causes for poor performance of the children, through proper identification of the problem. Also their career building is a part of the same. To help them to choose their career of their interest makes a drastic turning point in their lives. Here we will ensure students perform whatever is required from their side to achieve the best in their life. To put important points, it includes:

Behavioral problems correction

Memory enhancement

Overcoming Exam Fear

Overcoming exam anxiety

Career Guidance

Inhibition breaking

Interview/GD/Preparation

Learn to Learn

ALM (Accelerated Learning Methods)

Leadership qualities….

It offer special emotional support for old age people, with the help of achieving social support as well. What all things need to be given to old people shall be properly identified and supplied. The guidance for the same shall be done by us. There are certain emotional aspects which are inevitable for them. We will identify those and get it done through their significant people. Also, many things are to be done to override their emptiness, death and bereavement of spouse related syndromes etc. This segment effectively deals with those effectively, and mainstream them, by giving them overall well being.

Old people are gems of the society, since they are living examples of a long period with much of experience and exposure. They have to be really utilized and respected as well. The major kinds of problems through which our old people are passing through will be:

Job loss

Changes in social status

Loss of contemporaries

Older women has more life expectancy

Physical limitations, loss of friends, limited mobility….

Poverty etc

Mental Disorders:

Depressive Disorders

Cognitive Disorders

Phobias

Alcohol related

Suicide

Psychosocial risk factors – Loss of social roles, loss of autonomy, deaths of spouse, friends & relatives, declining health, increased isolation, financial crisis, decreased cognitive functions etc.

Dementing disorders

Schizophrenia

Delusional disorders

Anxiety disorders/neuroses

Somatoform disorders

Alcohol & substance abuse

Sleep disorders

Suicide risk

Hearing loss

Abuse of various kind of external means

Spouse bereavement

Through effective old age / geriatric counsellings and psychotherapies, the following objectives shall be achieved:

Increase their self efficacy

Increase their self confidence

Decrease their feelings of helplessness and anger

Improve the quality of their lives

Minimize their complains

Support friendship & sex etc.

Helps one to stick on to healthy lifestyles thereby both physical and mental health are achieved. Majority of the diseases found in people are related to unhealthy lifestyles. It include eating, drinking, sleeping disorders and imbalances and much more. This segment is intended to identify the unhealthy lifestyle patterns and resolve those, for a long lasting life. The major bottleneck towards ones success and peace are alcohol, drugs and other psycho-stimulating substances, which makes their lives miserable as well. Here we fix the problems by proper identification of the problems on time and then resolving soon.

Rehabilitation Counselling - This segment focuses on the rehabilitation after various life incidents of otherwise nature. It may include rehabilitation to overcome life’s various negative incidents, traumas, addictions, accidents, surgeries etc. Here, one’s lost mental health is being captured back through a series of Counseling’s in a variety of platforms. Incidents like PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) etc. can be caused due to various life incidents or so. Through effective support and help, those affected like this can be mainstreamed. Simple incidents like development of anxiety neuroses from simple anxieties like exam anxiety, marriage and life anxiety, job related anxiety etc. may be taken as specialized projects and supported them with adequate attention and care as well. Here, mainstreaming is intended mainly. Those who are sidelined will be mainstreamed through effective rehabilitative methods, to help them cross the traumatic condition in their lives.

De-addiction Counselling - helps people who are addicted to various kinds of psycho active substances or their abuse. It may be like alcohol, cigarettes, other drugs etc. Addictions have got both Physiological as well as Psychological reasons. Majority of such cases remain psychological. Through effective psychological support and awareness on why he / she should be de-addicted from psycho-active substances, one can achieve his goal much effectively. Now days world is more and more enjoying the access of psycho-active substances like drugs, alcohol, tobacco products etc. Even parents and teachers are facing difficulties in handling such kinds of students / children issues drastically. Here, in this slot, guidance counselors play a key role in their support to withdraw such students / children from addictions and the like. Substance abuse of such kinds may lead to many harmful deeds like rape, violence, accidents and much more. Above all, it remains as a social nuisance.

It helps to understand and help people who have technical, personal and emotional/adjustment problems interfering with their work performance, and who have difficulties in balancing personal and professional life. Through effective counseling, true professionals are built to focus on real tasks which enable them to achieve their organizational objectives as well. Here, in this segment, professionals are being trained on certain life skills, which enable them to perform much in their lives, by balancing both personal and professional lives.

Now days, every job demands extra performance or should say extra ordinary performance. Thus, to cope up with the much demanding kinds of expectations from the job world, one should be thoroughly equipped with the tactics of job homeostasis, which means, the balancing of one’s skills with that of job demands. Industrial/Institutional counseling equips one to take more challenging assignments of job market, and helps one to get accustomed with the same in a long lasting fashion. Thus, it helps one to achieve his personal as well as professional goals in a much feasible fashion.

It is intended to develop one’s overall personality through attainment of courage, confidence, efficiency, attitudes, etiquettes, communication skills, proper body language etc. Only through the formation of a healthy personality, one will be able to face and handle various life situations. Even in the case of a friendly talk, or an official talk, an interview setting, a marriage setting, a professional setting, whatever is the case, a person with excellent INTER-PERSONAL SKILLS will have more chances to survive. Inter-personal skills are some soft-skills which enable one to excel in a particular situation / setting. It include how one smiles, how one speaks, how one walks, how one cracks jokes, how one walks, how one sits, how one uses words tactfully, how one behaves as per situations etc. Through the development of such soft-skills aspects, one is made comfortable in being with various kinds of situations. He will feel comfortable in whatever situations he may be in, and along with that, he will be able to keep all those associated with him in a comfort zone as well. Effectively developed personalities are sure to hit success than others. A person with a developed personality shall be considered as a GEM, since he will be balanced, emotionally stable, ready to accept the situations etc. Persons with developed personality would express the following features:

Realistic Self-Appraisals

Realistic Appraisals of Situations

Realistic Evaluation of Achievements

Acceptance of Reality

Acceptance of Responsibility

Autonomy

Acceptable Emotional Control

Goal-Orientation

Social Acceptance

Happiness

Now days, people tend to suffer from various kinds of illness. They are no more focusing on wellness too. Thus, we should say, the health industry is based on illness than wellness. There are various kinds of diseases which are affecting the body, as well as mind. Each and every organ in a human body is also prone to get affected by many kinds of diseases and disorders. The reasons can be many. It includes Genetics, Lifestyle including food and other habits, weather and climatic conditions, pollution etc.

One of the major factors contributing to the illnesses is STRESS….

Which generates ANXIETY….

Thus we can state ANXIETY IS THE RESPONSE TO STRESS….

All kinds of stress can induce anxieties, which in turn induce various kinds of diseases in the mind. Such psychological causes would reflect in body also, because the underlying stress releases through various regions of the body, and the weakest part of the body might be affected much. In other words, stress and anxieties would manifest in various forms, through various systems of the body, and, the most prone area of the body for some kind of problem will be affected much. For some people, their circulatory system will be genetically weak, for some gastro-intestinal system, for some it may be genital-urinary system and the like. All systems of the body might have chances to get affected badly by stress. So, instead of treating the affected system, or along with treating the affected system, the root cause of the problem (here stress and anxiety) has to be eradicated primarily. Thus, the entire problem of body system shall be cured easily. Now days, things are being done mostly in an opposite fashion, wherein the affected system of the body will be treated just symptomatically, and the root cause of the problem (if stress or anxiety) is not even addressed. But, simultaneously if both platforms are selected and worked on with, the entire problem of that particular system of the body shall be permanently removed.

I have encountered various somatic (bodily) complaints of many people, even though after having many kinds of medications remain uncured. For example, recurrent acute and chronic headaches, hiccups, belching, acidity, breathing difficulty, wheezing, back pains, polyarthralgia (pain in multiple joints), chest pain, general weakness and tiredness etc. Those may be associated with lack of memory and concentration, insomnia (reduced or no sleep), reduced mood, reduced food intake and reduced appetite, crying spells, surmounting sadness, general loss of patience etc. When those were treated through collective methods (both medically and psychologically); the patients were found to be much better both symptomatically as well as totally. Mostly people are not bothered about the psychological part of a disease / disorder, and keep on treating only on the physical aspect of the same, and would turn up like beating around the bush. Only through collective approaches certain problems can be completely removed. Otherwise, relapses (coming back) of certain diseases are also possible many times.

People need to overcome the stigma associated with the psychological aspect of well being, and to focus on this as well, for the overall well being of the body and mind. Thus they will be able to lead a full healthy life by paying justice to PHYSICAL, MENTAL, SOCIAL as well as SPIRITUAL well being, and will be able to lead a happy and peaceful life ahead.

It is based on developing skills for parents in managing their children in an appropriate way. Since world is ever changing, the parents also need to get equipped with various modern strategies to manage and handle their children. Those techniques and tools used to handle children earlier have very less chance to get worked out during modern times. The environment in which the children are being brought up now is entirely different from that, which prevailed during the times of parents. Technology, intellectual levels, food habits, lifestyles, movies, songs, singers, infrastructure, house and facilities, technical knowhow, skills, relationships, divorce rates, traffic, kinds of vehicles, number of vehicles, pollution levels, soil water levels and what not have changed.

The generation brought up with all contrast changes that of with parents shall be addressed differently. Thus adequate skill building has to be incorporated with parents too. Old parenting and child rearing styles need to be updated, since children themselves call them “New Generation”. Thus parents, I would suggest, need to grow beyond that, and become the so called “Next Generation” Parents.

It’s very tough to put it into practice than preach. The skills to handle the so called “New Generation” children has to be updated timely, so that much of the problems related to children can be either reduced or avoided. The change of the very concept “Parenting” has taken a long way. Earlier, even the very term “Parenting” as a separate diagonal was not there at all. But, due to the ever changing world and conditions, this separate diagonal has to be emphasized, and it must be incorporated to each and every parents.

The corrections from the part of parents, as per the situations, need to be done with utmost professional guidance and support, otherwise, things will not work out and the parent – children relationship would end up so desperately.

The parents will be taught about the main behavioural problems and learning problems of children, and they will be equipped to deal with such situations specifically and professionally through “Parents’ Guidance” and “Positive Parenting”.

In this ever changing world, Darwin’s theories really fit in than ever before. “Struggle for Existence” & “Survival of the Fittest”. To cope up with the needs of this ever changing world, and to increase the momentum of lives, one needs to enhance the expected levels of skills and expertise in their fields of operation. Skills are, in other words called as applied knowledge. Unless and until one is able to apply what he has learnt, the knowledge is of no use. Thus, this segment facilitates one to identify the needed skill, and thereafter help him to build those, to make his life smooth and happy.

With respect to Behavioral enhancements, what we do is, to help one build appropriate behaviors needed to perform his tasks successfully. In this era of tight and unhealthy competitions, one has to build appropriate behavioral strategies to fund his business or profession. Appropriate behavior means, that kind of behavior appropriate for the normal and healthy functioning of the business and community. Also, it supports lots of self-motivation too. It involves behavior in family, society, community, office, between friends, relatives etc. the main challenge is to demarcate between appropriate and inappropriate behaviors. One kind of behavior appropriate for some may be inappropriate for the other. Thus, it’s very difficult to perform that task for sure. Still we can do that with strong assessment skills, which will be facilitated by us through our highly professional track record. If one is behaviorally and skill wise strong, his life is sure to hit success.

Sub-conscious mind is said to have immense potential, since it controls our everything including thoughts, behavior, character, personality, habits and what not. Our minds are virtually classified as:

Conscious Mind (Outer)

Subconscious Mind (Middle)

Unconscious Mind (Inner)

Subconscious mind is to have some functions of conscious mind, and some functions of unconscious mind. Those messages, whether positive or negative, which enters the subconscious is sure to induce appropriate imprints inside it. For negative messages, it will have negative influence, and in turn produces negative outcomes, and for positive messages inside the subconscious will surely have positive outcomes for sure.

These positives and negatives would definitely get reflected in the state of being of one. That means if one has got positive experiences and positive messages; it will be manifested positively in his health, behavior, energy levels, words and the like. The negative experiences would have negative manifestations into the same aspects. Thus, our subconscious mind is told to be an auto-pilot, which guides our lives, as per its messages fed through life experiences. If a particular negative experience imprints a negative aspect in the subconscious mind, which shall be the cause of worry or a particular mental or physical disorder / disease, and that negative message inside the subconscious is replaced by a positive message, the outcome will definitely be positive both mentally as well as physically.

This is being done scientifically in this session. Much of behavioral, psycho-somatic diseases, bad habits, obsessions & addictions, personality problems, anxiety neuroses, mood disorders etc. can be modified through Hypnotic Counselling. Also, behavioral problems and learning problems of children, family issues, health issues, financial crisis, inter-personal problems etc. can be effectively resolved through strong Hypnotic Counselling.

This fall under corporate consultancy for effective and smooth running of business. Since manpower is the base for all businesses, effective selection and training of manpower plays a crucial role in the business scenario. From recruitment to on hand job, lots of things need to be taken care of. How employees are dealt with effectively paves the way for any successful business.

Along with that, effective suggestions and ideas for the improvement of business shall be provided. Effective case studies will be made to identify the problems, and later on after proper identification of the problems, appropriate suggestions shall be given to the management.

It means to support students and other professionals who are preparing various kinds of projects related to their academics, and various other purposes. Also, special focus will be given to the professionals who are trying for higher positions through submission of projects for higher degrees.

Industries are focusing on Training & Development much now days. Effective development of training syllabus and modules is the need of the hour. According to the requirement, we will develop need based training contents / modules for the utility of the customers in a professional way. A well planned and developed module paves way to a well oriented program which is need based and highly effective. Thus, the success of a training program is basically based on the kind of content it holds.