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Friendship Management Counselling in Kenya
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anais Nin
- Are you lonely among people?
- Do you struggle to trust people and keep friends?
- Do you wonder how some of your friends still have their childhood friends?
- By the way, how many friends have you retained in the last 10 years?
- As a parent, what ‘old school’ belief systems have you passed to your children?
- If these questions resonate with you, then friendship management counselling is for you, or the person you have messed with.
Friendship Management Counselling in Kenya
This is a type of guidance that helps people build, maintain, and improve healthy friendships while letting go of harmful or toxic ones. Friendship management counselling helps individuals choose the right friends, handle conflicts, and grow supportive, positive relationships. The following are the main focus areas:
- Building Healthy Friendships - teaching trust, respect, honesty, and support.
- Conflict Resolution - helping friends solve disagreements without hurting each other.
- Setting Boundaries - learning how to say “no” and protect personal space.
- Identifying Negative Friendships - recognizing toxic, manipulative, or draining friends.
- Social Skills Development - improving communication, empathy, and teamwork.
Friendships can range from casual to deep, depending on trust, closeness, and the context in which they are formed. The following are common types of friends who may become our peer influence.
- Acquaintance Friendship - People you know casually but are not very close to. Example: A classmate you greet but rarely talk deeply with.
- Casual Friendship - Friends you spend time with occasionally but without a deep emotional connection. Example: A colleague you chat with during breaks.
- Close Friendship - Friends you trust, share personal feelings with, and rely on for support. Example: Someone you call when you are sad or need advice.
- Best Friendship - A very deep bond built on trust, loyalty, and long-term connection. Example: A best friend who knows almost everything about you.
- Work/School Friendship - Friends you connect with mainly in professional or academic settings. Example: A teammate you collaborate with on school or work projects.
- Situational Friendship -Friendships that form due to specific circumstances or activities. Example: A travel buddy you met on a trip.
These are relationships with friends who influence you in harmful, toxic, or unhealthy ways instead of supporting your growth and well-being. Negative friendships drain your energy, lower your self-worth, and can mislead your life choices. The following are examples of negative friendships that you may need therapy to de-escalate the relationship:
- Manipulative friends - Use you for their own benefit.
- Jealous friends - Feel threatened by your success and put you down.
- Controlling friends - Want to dictate your choices or limit your freedom.
- Dishonest friends - Lie, gossip, or break your trust.
- Peer-pressuring friends - Push you into harmful behaviours (drugs, skipping school, crime).
- Unsupportive friends - Ignore your struggles or disappear when you need them.
Relationship management counselling helps them build healthy, respectful, and supportive connections.
- Improves communication skills - teaches how to express feelings clearly and respectfully.
- Builds healthy friendships and relationships - helps teens understand trust, respect, and boundaries.
- Reduces conflicts - equips them with conflict-resolution skills.
- Supports emotional growth - helps them handle rejection, heartbreak, or misunderstandings.
- Prepares for future relationships - lays the foundation for healthy adult relationships.
- Improves communication skills - teaches clear, respectful expression of feelings.
- Guides conflict resolution - shows healthy ways to solve disagreements.
- Sets healthy boundaries - helps clients recognize limits in friendships or romantic relationships.
- Builds trust and respect - encourages honesty, empathy, and mutual care.
- Supports emotional healing - helps cope with rejection, breakups, or toxic relationships.
Provides versatile counselling to our clients within the county and in the global space at the Online/Virtual Center, which is open from 6.00 AM to Midnight every day of the week. This dynamic center allows our global clients to equally access therapy services from their country of residence. It also provides a convenient and private space for any other client, with the liberty to be on or off camera during the session. However, for those around Nairobi, the Capital City of Kenya, we have a Physical Office for you in Nairobi, Upper Hill, at the Kenya Medical Association (KAM) Center. The Physical Center is open from 7.00 AM to 7.00 PM Monday to Saturday, and on special cases on Sunday afternoon to accommodate everyone. We are versatile enough to ensure everyone can access therapy anytime, anywhere, at their convenience.
The cost for virtual and physical therapy is the same, and our client can interchange the model without any penalty. The therapy session can be individual, joint/couple, or group therapy. We are a prepaid honest center, and once payment is made, it is reserved for a therapy session only. It does not matter how long the client takes to be available; you cannot lose your money while it is in our system. Please take time and read our terms and conditions, to understand some important parameters like session cancellation can only be done within 24 hours, less than that attracts a penalty; once payment is made for a therapy session, it cannot be refunded, but should be used for a therapy session only.
We have professional counsellors trained and licensed to provide all forms of therapy, but with expertise in relationship-related behavior and habits, especially among pre-teens, teenagers, and youth. With their support, the affected person will learn how to appreciate their values in relationship building, learning assertive skills to say ‘NO’ to any negative pressure, and set SMART goals that occupy prime time and energy in their day. The guardian or parent is likely to be the person reading this content, as they seek counselling services for their pre-teen, teenager, or youth; therefore, they should not give up on their children while help is a phone call away.
The therapist for your child will provide a safe space for them to catharsis (vent out); help you to develop coping strategies, reshape your thinking patterns, improve your relationship, performance, and address the issue at hand better. Book a therapy session and find a mental wellness support and personal therapist to walk and guide your child to manage that negative peer pressure and toxic relationships, which are interfering with their life. Do not discuss your children's issues in the wrong places and with the wrong people; they do not care about you and your family. Come and Share with a Counsellor at our Center. At Share We Care.
You can use Call, SMS, or WhatsApp, using any of the two official lines provided below at the contact us. In case you miss us using one medium, especially the Call, use SMS or WhatsApp Chat, and we will promptly respond. You can access our services through our official email, and the administrator will escalate your request to the client manager for action.
- Mobile Safaricom Line: +254 707 764 498 (Call, SMS, or WhatsApp)
- Mobile Airtel Line: +254 739 340 004 (Call, SMS, or WhatsApp)
- Email Address: info@demo.sharewithacounsellor.com

