Love is in the air? How about the many Filipino couples struggling on their married life? Marriage crisis is not simple as it is. Nobody feel the pain but the couple and their children. Each individuals react differently in this situation. If the marriage is already on the rocks, sometimes they need proffesional help, someone they can talk to and guide them. If you don’t have money to pay for professional fee of a good shrink, CeFam is highly recommended.
The Center for Family Ministries or CeFam is a Spiritual-Pastoral Center that aims to empower the Filipino family to become a community of love, justice, and peace in the home. It endeavors to direct families to fulfill its social role and responsibility to the nation and the world as well. For this, it has pioneered the psycho-spiritual approach to addressing the issues of hurting individuals, engaged-to-be-married couples or those struggling with their marriages, and families. Through its undertakings, CeFam seeks to promote the familys’ well-being, healing, and growth. Towards this end, they provide resources that facilitate the empowerment of the family within the home and in society at large.
It has established the Center for Family Ministries located in the Ateneo de Manila University campus with a Satellite Counseling Site in Don Bosco Parish, Makati City. This apostolate work has planted the seed that addresses the growing need for Pastoral Ministry in the Philippines.
Specifically, CeFam offers counselling Services for individuals, couples, and families including Child and Adolescent Counseling, Premarital Counselling and Marriage Preparation, Marital Counseling, Family Mediation, Crisis Intervention, Support Groups, and Radio Counseling.
Contact them first for appointment at 4264289-92 (Loyola Heights, QC) and 8945932-34 (Don Bosco, Makati City), be patient for the appointment availability. They won’t charge you for professional fee but asked you for donation. One hour conseling session, one on one with a psychologist/sociologist. These professionals also have their own clinics but they’re doing the counselling session for free as part of their social work or community service. There’s no guarantee that CeFam will save your marriage, it is still depends on YOU!
actually they are not shrinks. There’s only one shrink there when they see if the client needs psychiatric help. They are counsellors.
have you tried them? I consulted them regarding our marital problems due to our grief. They were not helpful. Apparently they couldn’t relate to our grief of losing a child. Or they weren’t trained. I stopped seeing them and scouted around for a better therapist.
Another close friend I know didn’t like them because of the spiritual lecture. Apprently the Cefam is good if you are already a devout Christian so there is less resistance.