GEMcounselingconsultancy

GEMcounselingconsultancy GEM Counseling Consultancy offers individual and group counseling on various life contexts. It also engages in training workshops and seminars.

Contact us on +254 722 333862. This is a non-governmental organization whose mandate is to empower individuals to live a wholesome life, by examining the various life concerns, or mental health challenges they experience.

01/01/2025

We wish you a Happy New Year 2025! May it be filled with joy and treasured memories

01/03/2024

Life has a number of charging systems, for example, relationships, and drug and substance abuse. Let's consider these two. If we consider our lives to be phones, once in a while, we will need re-charge, so that our battery (life) does not die. Relationships as phone chargers, have the potential to either power, our lives, or cause the battery to lose charge. When one is in a healthy relationship, then the battery charge is almost always full of charge, and the phone (our life) is able to function optimally. When one is in a toxic relationship, the charger appears to be connected to the phone, yet the phone battery keeps losing charge. Interestingly, for one to continue to be in the toxic relationship (malfunctioning charger), there is possibly something that the charger is serving. For example, one has invested time in the relationship, it offers one a sense of self- esteem (dating, married, as opposed to single or divorced). It may also be that the person has joint investments - money, children, social circles, etc. This would make one continue having the malfunctioning charger. Unfortunately, using a malfunctioning charger could reduce the batt life.
Similarly, engaging in drug and substance abuse could serve a function. For example, cools off steam, social circles that are fun, or the only individuals one feels, can engage in, and one may see it as a functional charger. However, it could cost one physically, mentally, socially, and financially, thereby serving as a malfunctional charger.
It is important to consider the pros and cons of utilizing the malfunctional charger, and the fully functional charger, and make an informed decision about what to do.
It would be very helpful for one to engage with a psychotherapist in that journey as soon as would be possible.
At GEMcounselingconsultancy, we are here to help you.

29/10/2023

YOUR SPOUSE IS YOUR COVER

Cover
To put something on top of or in front of something, over or place under
(something), especially in order to protect/ surround/ shield it.

How Does a Spouse Cover

1. Physically

A spouse protects from danger, from lack, from shame, etc. When someone attempts to attack a spouse, (physically or even verbally), the other spouse steps in, to protect. When a spouse provides for the other materially, it covers shame, and lack, as one is well taken care of.
In moments of sickness, one spouse takes care of the other as much as possible, to ensure their wellbeing is taken care of.
As you step out of your house each morning, the first person who compliments your look, or the lack of it, would be your spouse.

2. Socially

I have heard of widows who say, "there are things my family, my in-laws, our friends, etc would never have done, if my husband was alive. When that cover is taken off, one is exposed, there are things that others think they can now get away with, now that the cover is removed. You will often hear conversations such as, "leave that one alone, for he/ she is married"

3. Spiritually

Spouses could pray for and with each other. A spouse is a source of encouragement, one for the other.

4. Emotionally

In the highlights of your life, and in your
lowest moments , your spouse can be a source of great support, holding you up, walking with you, through it.
In life, your greatest cheerleader would be your spouse

24/10/2023

MIRROR MIRROR ON THE WALL
Quite often, we look at an individual whom we think is in need of Professional Counseling, and we tell the person as much. However, the person may fight us and insist that he/ she has no problem.
Consider this, there are times when you tell someone about how you can see a pimple on their forehead. The person may fight, because he/ she can't see it. It would help, to allow that person to stand in front of a mirror and see the pimple for themselves.
In a similar manner, it may help to MIRROR the behavior to the person, allowing the person to see what you are seeing, that is, the need to seek help
Notably, the person may still insist that the pimple isn't too big, it's painless, or, doesn't need intervention. That said, the ball is in that person's court.

21/07/2023

Building an intimate relationship with your partner is a lot of work. Sometimes, the relationship breaks and the people walk their separate ways. In that season, one may meet someone and believe that they have met a perfect replacement. However, would it be that in effect, the person they meet is to help them heal, and not necessarily a perfect replacement? Let's put it this way, when one is physically sick, one takes medicine. When you take the appropriate medicine, you get better, however, if you take the wrong medicine, one gets worse. It's important to be vigilant, at the point of pain, as one is vulnerable. It is also possible, that after one gets well, you realize that the person you have is not one you want to spend the rest of your life with. It is therefore, helpful not to rush into the next relationship. Take time to heal, and make the parameters clear. It is possible that if one makes it clear, the other person may run away, and one feels the need not to be clear from the start. However, when one gets better, having cemented the relationship, it may now also start to suffer, because this was only meant to be "medicine" and not a lasting solution towards your future relationship.
Truth be told, when you take medicine when you are sick, it is helpful towards healing. However, when you continue to take medicine even after you are whole, it now becomes poison to your body.
It is helpful to consider therapy, to walk through the journey towards living a wholesome life.

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Nairobi

Opening Hours

Monday 09:00 - 17:00
Tuesday 09:00 - 17:00
Wednesday 09:00 - 17:00
Thursday 09:00 - 17:00
Friday 09:00 - 17:00

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+254722333862

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