Are you a qualified and experienced Counsellor in India with specialized training and a passion for working with couples and families? Do you excel at helping individuals navigate relationship challenges, improve communication, and build healthier connections? Mentalzon.com invites dedicated Marriage and Family / Relationship Counsellors to join our telehealth platform, offering your expertise to clients across India seeking private online counselling.

About Mentalzon.com:

Mentalzon.com is a leading digital platform in India committed to enhancing access to a wide spectrum of mental health and well-being services. We understand the profound impact of relationships on individual and family well-being and seek to connect clients with skilled counsellors specializing in these dynamics. Our platform empowers you to build or expand your independent private practice with autonomy, secure technology, and reach clients in need.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver Remote Relationship & Family Counselling: Provide counselling sessions via secure video conferencing to individuals, couples, and families experiencing relational difficulties, communication breakdowns, conflict, or seeking to enhance their relationships.
• Assess Relational Dynamics: Conduct thorough assessments to understand presenting relational issues, family systems, communication styles, attachment patterns, and relevant contextual factors.
• Develop Collaborative Goals & Plans: Work with clients to establish clear, achievable goals for their relationships and develop tailored counselling plans.
• Utilise Systemic & Relational Approaches: Apply evidence-informed counselling techniques and therapeutic modalities suited for couple and family work (e.g., Systemic approaches, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) principles, Gottman Method informed strategies, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Narrative Therapy approaches).
• Facilitate Healthy Communication & Conflict Resolution: Guide clients in developing effective communication skills, understanding different perspectives, managing conflict constructively, and fostering mutual respect and empathy.
• Support for Various Relational Stages: Offer pre-marital counselling, support for parenting challenges, guidance through family life cycle transitions, co-parenting strategies, and adjustment to separation or divorce.
• Maintain Confidential Records: Ensure accurate, confidential, and timely documentation of sessions in compliance with ethical guidelines, best practices, and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDP Act), 2023, paying particular attention to confidentiality when working with multiple clients in a system.
• Uphold Ethical Standards: Adhere strictly to ethical codes relevant to counselling, particularly those pertaining to couple and family work (e.g., managing multiple relationships, confidentiality, informed consent from all participants).
• Appropriate Referrals: Identify when individual members within a couple or family may require separate individual therapy for clinical mental health conditions or when other specialist interventions are needed, and facilitate referrals accordingly.

Essential Requirements:

• Educational Qualification: Master's degree (MA/MSc/MSW) in Counselling, Psychology (with Counselling/Clinical specialization), Social Work (with a strong focus on family and clinical practice), or a closely related mental health field from a recognized Indian university.
• Specialized Training in Relational Work: Verifiable and comprehensive post-Master's specialized training (e.g., Post Graduate Diploma, Advanced Certificate, or substantial integrated coursework within the Master's program) in Marriage and Family Therapy/Counselling, Couple Counselling, Relationship Counselling, or Systemic Therapy from a reputable institution or program.
• Experience: Proven, direct experience in providing counselling to couples and/or families, addressing a range of relational issues.
• Systemic Perspective: Demonstrated understanding of and ability to apply systemic thinking and approaches to relational dynamics.
• Ethical Acumen in Relational Work: Strong knowledge of ethical considerations specific to working with couples and families, including managing confidentiality, neutrality, and multiple alliances.
• Right to Work: Must possess the legal right to work on a self-employed basis within India.
• Technical Proficiency: Competence in using secure video conferencing platforms (potentially for multi-participant sessions) and digital tools for client communication and record-keeping.
• Professional Environment: Access to a stable, high-speed internet connection and a private, secure, and professional workspace suitable for confidential remote counselling sessions, ensuring privacy for all participants involved.
• Language Proficiency: Fluency in English is essential. Proficiency in one or more Indian regional languages is highly important for effective couple and family work.

Desirable Requirements:

• Membership with a recognized professional counselling, psychology, or MFT-focused association in India or internationally (e.g., IAC, CPAI, AAMFT, ICEEFT).
• Certification from a specific Marriage and Family Therapy or Relationship Counselling training institute or model.
• Extensive experience with specific relational challenges (e.g., infidelity recovery, domestic abuse awareness and referral – with strict adherence to safety protocols for telehealth, blended family integration, pre-marital education).
• Significant experience in delivering couple and family counselling via telehealth.
• Professional Indemnity Insurance covering counselling practice (including couple/family work and telehealth) in India.

Conditions of Engagement (Self-Employed Basis for Private Tele-Counselling Practice):

• Autonomy and Flexibility: Manage your own schedule, client intake, and counselling approach within ethical and professional boundaries.
• Work Remotely (India): Provide services from any suitable private and professional location within India.
• Private Billing: Set your own competitive consultation fees for individual, couple, or family sessions.
  • Clients will typically pay privately. These specialized counselling services are generally not covered by government health schemes or widely by private health insurance in India.
  • (Typical private rates for specialized Marriage and Family / Relationship Counselling in India can range from INR ₹1000 to ₹3500+ per session, often varying by session length and number of participants).
• Platform Support: Gain visibility and connect with clients across India seeking specialized relational counselling through Mentalzon.com.
• Focus on Therapeutic Impact: Our platform facilitates client connections, allowing you to focus on your core therapeutic work with couples and families.

How to Join Mentalzon.com:

1. Register and Create Your Profile: Sign up on Mentalzon.com. Create a detailed professional profile highlighting your Master's degree, specialized training in Marriage/Family/Relationship Counselling, relevant experience, therapeutic approaches for relational work, and any professional memberships.
2. Upload Verification Documents: Submit clear copies of your relevant degree certificates, specialized training certifications/diplomas, proof of experience (e.g., letters of reference if applicable), proof of identity (e.g., Aadhaar Card, PAN Card), and details of professional indemnity insurance (if held).
3. Review and Verification: Our team will review your credentials, qualifications, and specialized experience in relational counselling to ensure alignment with our platform's standards.
4. Onboarding: Upon successful verification, you will be guided through an onboarding process to set up your practice on the platform, including defining your availability, service offerings (individual, couple, family), and fee structure.
5. Commence Counselling Sessions: Start receiving client enquiries or bookings. Manage all aspects of client engagement, ensuring ethical practice, particularly concerning confidentiality and informed consent when working with multiple family members.

Why Partner with Mentalzon.com as a Marriage and Family / Relationship Counsellor?

• Reach Your Niche Audience: Connect with clients specifically seeking support for their relationships and family dynamics.
• Practice with Flexibility: Design a remote practice that suits your professional focus and lifestyle.
• Professional Environment: Be part of a platform that promotes ethical and qualified practitioners across various mental health and well-being disciplines.
• Transparent Collaboration: Free registration. Any platform service fees associated with using Mentalzon.com will be clearly communicated.
• Strengthen Relationships Across India: Contribute significantly to the well-being of individuals, couples, and families by making your specialized skills more accessible.

If you are a qualified Counsellor with specialized training and experience in Marriage and Family or Relationship Counselling in India, committed to ethical practice and supporting relational health, we invite you to join Mentalzon.com.

Note: A Master's degree in a relevant field coupled with specialized training and experience in Marriage and Family/Relationship Counselling is essential. This platform is for non-diagnostic counselling focused on relational dynamics. These services are typically private pay and are not covered by general government health schemes in India. Practitioners are responsible for ensuring their practice is fully compliant with all relevant Indian laws, professional ethics, data protection regulations (DPDP Act, 2023), and for working within their defined scope of competence, particularly when managing complex family or couple cases via telehealth.