If you or your children are not safe, contact your local emergency services or the police. The line listed below is a gender-based-violence line.
Crisis numbers in Pakistan
- Ministry of Human Rights helpline: Tel: 1099
What couples counselling is
Couples counselling is a talking treatment for two people seen together.
Titles you will see include Psychiatrist, Psychologist and Clinical Psychologist.
Multan is in Punjab.
Most approaches share the same ground 1. The counsellor holds a relational frame and works actively. The aim is to interrupt the patterns that keep a difficulty running, not to establish which partner is at fault.
It is also not a marriage bureau or a matchmaking service. That confusion is real here.
A counsellor does not arrange a marriage. Nor do they represent either family or tell you what to decide. Relationship distress is an ordinary reason adults seek help 2.
Is couples counselling the right first step?
Not every couple should start with a joint session, and a practitioner will normally say so early.
Moderate to severe aggression between partners is one reason 1. Active alcohol or other substance misuse is another. So are a continuing affair and psychotic symptoms.
The usual answer is individual or specialist treatment first. Couples work follows if it still fits.
Couples sessions require safety. Where one partner is frightened of the other, safety comes before any of this. The services below are the ones for it. Seeing someone alone first is a common route into couples work rather than an alternative to it.
If the problem is safety rather than the relationship
Where someone at home is being hurt, threatened or controlled, counselling is not the first step.
The Ministry of Human Rights runs a national helpline 3. It offers free legal advice, counselling, legal assistance and referral, and it works from any province. It is the one route here that is both national and free.
The legal route depends on the province or territory. In Sindh the route is the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act 4. A woman, child or vulnerable person in a domestic relationship may apply to a judicial magistrate.
The orders include a protection order and interim relief at any stage of the case. They also include the right to stay in the household rather than be put out of it.
In Punjab the route is the Punjab Protection of Women against Violence Act 2016 5. A woman facing violence, or someone acting for her, may complain to the family court. The court can make protection, residence and monetary orders.
In the Islamabad Capital Territory the route is the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act 2026 6. Anyone harmed by a family member they live or lived with may go to the family court. They petition it through a Protection Officer. The orders include protection, the right to stay in the home, and monetary relief.
Punjab also runs its own women's helpline, and this page does not list it. The national helpline above works from any province.
Nearby places and related listings
- Every therapist listed in Multan (5)
- Marriage counselling, Faisalabad
- Marriage counselling, Lahore
- Marriage counsellors by city, the marriage counsellors page, not tied to a place
- Pakistan: Marriage counselling by city
References
[3] Ministry of Human Rights, Government of Pakistan, helpline.
[5] Punjab Protection of Women against Violence Act 2016 (Act XVI of 2016), Punjab Laws, Government of the Punjab
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