Frequently Asked Questions

Please click on the ‘Start Now’ button on the top right corner of the page to sign up for counselling. You can alternatively go through our services and click on the ‘Start Now’ button after reading through which service you wish to opt for. After you click on ‘Start Now’, you will be redirected to a page to choose your plan. You can choose between Individuals/Couples if you wish to get counselled individually or as a couple. Once you select a plan, you have to enter your email id and mobile number, make the payment and your subscription is complete! You will receive information of account user ID and password on your email-ID.

Yes, you can. Please send us as an email on care@lonleycrow.in with a request for a change and we will address your concern.

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Please send us as an email on care@lonleycrow.in explaining your concern and inability to complete sessions allotted to you and we will try our best to accommodate any pending sessions, based on the availability of your counsellor.

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• Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic therapy
• Behavior therapy
• Cognitive therapy
• Humanistic therapy
• Integrative or Holistic therapy

The number of recommended sessions varies by condition and treatment type, however, the majority of psychotherapy clients report feeling better after 3 months; those with depression and anxiety experience significant improvement after short and longer time frames, 1-2 months & 3-4 months

Uncontrollable sadness, anger, or hopelessness may be signs of a mental health issue that can improve with treatment. If you're eating or sleeping more or less than usual, withdrawing from family and friends, or just feeling “off”, talk to someone before serious problems develop that impact your quality of life.

Each session will last for 45 minutes.

• Stage 1: Initial disclosure
• Stage 2: In depth exploration
• Stage 3: Commitment to Action
• Stage 4: Counselling Intervention
• Stage 5: Evaluation, Termination or Referral

Counselling is a process of talking about and working through your personal problems with a counsellor. The counsellor helps you to address your problems in a positive way by helping you to clarify the issues, explore options, develop strategies and increase self-awareness.

• Attending
• Silence
• Reflecting and Paraphrasing
• Clarifying
• Focusing
• Building Rapport
• Summarizing
• Immediacy

Couples counselling as it is currently practiced, using Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), is now roughly 75 percent effective, according to the American Psychological Association.

Couples should seek therapy long before they think they "need" to. Most experts believe that therapy can be an important part of your relationship. Most issues within a couple start small and then grow in size when they don't get resolved.

While counselling is highly effective at repairing the most broken of relationships, there are some fundamental problems that might make repair impossible. One of the partners may have decided that, no matter what, they want out; that they do not wish to repair the relationship, then counselling is unlikely to help.

Even in an abusive relationship, a couples therapist will likely not suggest divorce. They will, however, help the victim find separation and seek help. Therapists will do everything they can to keep their clients safe.

Yes. Not every therapist has had the chance to develop their expertise working with couples. Those that have those skills are generally happy to work with unmarried couples, as far as it helps them.

Yes. Counselling can significantly improve your sex life because it helps individuals and couples relieve problems such as performance anxiety or other related issues.

Pre-marital counseling is a type of therapy that helps couples prepare for marriage. Premarital counseling can help ensure that you and your partner have a strong, healthy relationship, giving you a better chance for a stable and satisfying marriage.

Most couples think they should start premarital counselling two or three weeks before their marriage. However, it is betterthat this counselling be started as soon as possible. You should start going for therapy sessions as soon as you are sure of your stand in the relationship.

Pre-marital Counseling Builds Better Union.Research has found that the average couple who participates in a pre-marital counseling and education program reports a 30% stronger marriage than other couples.

Exceptional marriage counsellors never take sides. They do not let the spouses criticize the daylights out of each other. Their focus is getting to the SOURCE of the marital difficulties and not on compromise. Exceptional marriage counsellors never end a session when one or both spouses are upset.

Feeling anxious every day can take a toll on your mental health. Counselling can help you explore the cause of these feelings, understand them and suggest ways of dealing with these situations. A counsellor can help you learn how to cope with anxiety.

Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is one of the most beneficial ways to deal with stress. In CBT, people are taught to recognize and change negative thought patterns and apply different tools to help them improve their negative-self talk to be more positive.

Counselling for stress at work aims to identify the causes of an employee's work-related stress. When conducted in a private and judgment-free environment, it can help the employee to understand the cause of the stress and take steps to manage and reduce it.

• Apathy, Lack of energy
• Difficulty making decisions
• Difficulty “keeping track” of things
• Feeling on Edge
• A change in eating habits
• Sleeping more than usual or difficulty getting to sleep
• Being more emotional
• Using alcohol or drugs to relieve or forget stress

Indeed, stress symptoms can affect your body, your thoughts and feelings, and your behavior. Being able to recognize common stress symptoms can help you manage them. Stress, that's left unchecked can contribute to many health problems, such as high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity and diabetes.

Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) is a type of psychotherapy that has consistently been found to be the most effective treatment of PTSD both in the short term and the long term. CBT for PTSD is trauma-focused, meaning the trauma event(s) are the center of the treatment.

Your personality can invite loneliness and loneliness can shape your personality. After all, like an expanding waist span, there's evidence that personality changes as we get older. And just as we can strive to lose weight, there's evidence we can intentionally change our personalities.

It's like being in a place with a thousand people but feeling invisible to every one of them. It's like walking on a path without any directions, without any idea when it will end. Loneliness is feeling like you are meant to suffer alone. Loneliness can cause fear and make one feel like there is no freedom from it.

Therapy can be extremely useful in helping you discover the origin of your confidence issues. A skilled therapist can also work with you on creating small, incremental goals that help you to slowly build your confidence and your experience of mastery in the world. Don't let low self-confidence undermine your life.

Low self-esteem often begins in childhood. Stress and difficult life events, such as serious illness or a bereavement, can have a negative effect on self-esteem. Personality can also play a part. Some people are just more prone to negative thinking, while others set impossibly high standards for themselves.

Symptoms of inferiority complex go beyond occasional bouts of low self-esteem or worries about your abilities; they are persistent. Some common symptoms include: Feeling insecure, incomplete, or unworthy. Withdrawal from everyday activities and social situations.