Family counselling is a type of treatment designed to help with issues that specifically affect families’ mental health and functioning. It helps individual family members build stronger relationships, improve communication & autonomy, understand different roles of each family member, and manage or reduce conflicts within the family system. It envisages an understanding of the nature, pattern of value and moral system of a family; pattern and level of religious and spiritual orientation within a family; pattern and level of socialization accepted and encouraged in a family in addition to obtaining clarity on the pattern of seeking entertainment and recreation within a family. Family counselling may include all family members or just those able or willing to participate.