Bright Dawn Counselling and Wellness Services

31/07/2024

28/02/2024

While showering your child with love and material comforts is natural, excessive pampering can lead to negative traits like arrogance and entitlement. Overindulged children often struggle to appreciate the value of things and may take privileges for granted.

14/02/2023

What if we all embraced our flaws, inequities and decided to be better parents.
Present does not mean hovering or been overly controlling But making a conscious decision to love, listen, guide and be there unconditionally .

06/02/2023

Parenting is funny🙂
We all are trying to do something that nobody has ever known how to do or even excelled at, BUT we want to do our very best as parents.

We have inherited baggage from culture, unconscious parents and ancestors: Hence we keep projecting our unmet needs, expectations and fantasies on our dear children.

There is great need for every parent to realize their unhealed wounds.

08/11/2022

Do you know that adverse childhood experiences are the main determinants of the health and social well-being of the nation?

As a parent, how will you feel later in life when your child opens up about his/her traumatic childhood experiences, and you have been there all along but never realized what was going on?

04/11/2022

Childhood trauma doesn't come in one single package. Behavior is the language of trauma. Children will show you before they tell you that they are in distress. Our brains are wired for connection, but trauma rewires them for protection.

Children start talking the moment they feel heard. Brighter Life counseling Services is offering an exciting holiday talk therapy just for kid!

What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation.
Glenn Close

03/11/2022

Hellen Kilusu is a certified and seasoned Counselling Psychologist with over 10 years of hands-on experience in various fields ranging from Counselling, Community Health, Case Management, Research, and Data collection. She holds a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from The University of Nairobi and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Counseling Psychology from The University of Nairobi, a diploma in community health, a certificate in life skills, and is currently enrolled for a Ph.D. in African Women Studies. She has a deep understanding of Mental Health, mental health issues that the world is slowly waking up to, which has affected society in a big way, and also the policies and theories that inform Counseling Psychology and Mental Health.
Her training experience has over the years evolved from direct implementation to consultancy and teaching in Universities and back to implementation based on client needs and scope of work. Teaching has introduced her to a new path to explore counseling psychology from a learner-instructor perspective and the effect of intentional body-mind wellness, and body-mind use on empowering learners to understand themselves, gain knowledge and help others in their path to career growth.
She has hands-on training and implementation with Amref International University where she is currently Lecturing, RefuSHE Kenya where she spearheaded the development and initiation of a Mental Health Program to support unaccompanied refugee girls and young women, Compassion International Kenya Projects, Research with different organizations where she learned the importance of data in programming, data narrative in service delivery and impact in communities. Her Mentorship and Trauma-informed approach to programming, planning, implementation, and evaluation enable her to deliver with the utmost professionalism, respect, and integrity.
Staff wellness programs have introduced her to the psychosocial needs of employees and the areas to focus on that cut across working space and how to address mental health issues with awareness of differences in experiences, upbringing, and orientation of personalities.
Her area of specialty include:
• Child and adolescent counseling
• Trauma counseling
• Trauma-informed programs
• Loss and grief counseling
• Empowerment and capacity building of security agencies
• Parents training
• Coaching
• Conducting mental health training.
• Mentorship forums
• Life- skills, and communication
• Debriefing and supervision
• Mental health kids boot camps