ExAnte Factor: Journey to Spiritual & Practical Self Improvement

RELATIONSHIP COUNSELING

Relationship is a strong, close association of an individual with her/himself, or with other individuals that revolves around complex social, cultural, and individual influences. Right from the moment you are born, you enter into and out of several relationships with fellow beings by default or by choice. Your relationships bring immense pleasure to you, but it can be onerous to sustain a happy and healthy relationship through the journey of life.

Maintaining an enduring, healthy relationship is a challenge that each one of us faces. Relationship issues crop up due to both internal and external conflicts. Challenges you face in your relationships hone your personality and make you more mature every passing moment. However, these same demands may potentially cause you to succumb to the ravages of adverse circumstances.

Every relationship comes with its share of mutual expectations. Inability of partners to continuously match up to each others expectations and lack of effective communication with each other sometimes leads to discontent and distrust that may threaten the very continuity of your relationship.

As a couple, once the initial euphoria ebbs, harsh realities with ongoing cultural, societal and circumstantial pressures start taking their toll on you. Issues related to compatibility, individual choices, career, finances, and extraneous circumstances such as partner infidelity, children, and extended family may also develop into serious differences that have a lasting adverse effect on your relationship.

Relationship problems range from minor arguments and rows to potentially serious issues. While it is perfectly normal in any relationship between two or more individuals to have disagreements, at times, if these minor wrinkles are not ironed out properly they may end up permanently creasing the delicate fabric of your relationship.

Biggest hurdle in overcoming relationship issues is to correctly and honestly pinpoint the problem due to naturally biased outlook of individuals in question. Each individual involved looks at it with his/her unique perspective, contriving lasting impressions and making resolution difficult or well-nigh impossible to achieve.

Expert counseling goes a long way in improving your relationships by focusing primarily on identification of core problem and its source, and subsequently assisting you in working out solutions to deal with it.

Counseling will not only help you in resolving problems that you may be facing in a relationship, but will empower you to manage and improve other facets of your life as well.

METHODOLOGY

Subsequent to preliminary assessment and based on your unique circumstances, therapist will chart out a bespoke counseling plan involving individual and/or couple (spouse) counseling.

Individual Counseling comprises one-on-one sessions during which therapist will assess your emotions, behaviour and response to situations and circumstances that may be adversely affecting your relationship and provide you insight about dynamics that are governing your relationship and how to create and maintain a healthy balance between your own needs and those of your relationship. Core focus here is to bring about a positive change in yourself in order to change the dynamics of your relationship favourably.

Couple counseling sessions, on the other hand, focus on motivating and facilitating partners to explore together the core issue affecting their relationship with a fresh, unbiased and open perspective. Therapist helps couples in learning new ways to identify conflicts, empowering them with skills and tools to collectively work towards resolution with progressive development of empathy and trust between partners.