What are we?

We are an organization trying to help persons like you to arrive at inner peace in life by reducing your mental stress and making you realize that life is worth living. Our expert counselors are ever ready to listen, to enter into your world to understand and accept you and make you feel comfortable. We work on different counselling techniques based on Buddhist Philosophy but quite relevant and acceptable to the people if all creeds because we deal with universal human problems. Our operational center in situated in Sri Lanka and we intend providing facilities to follow our residential programme that consists of observation animation, meditation and psychotherapy. Prominent expects from the field of Education and religious extend their generous service to our clients.

What is counselling?

In short, counselling can be described as a clinical programme that will help people with problems to develop their skills and lead a fruitful life. This is a personality development programme through which people come to realize their shortcomings by themselves and try to overcome them. It helps a person to find out his place in the social environment and strengthens his ability to take decisions. Counselling can also be described as something that helps a person to attain mental perfection.

Why did you decide to call this centre Sithmini?

A person's mind may get disoriented because of various mental problems. Then he begins to hate social life. What a person needs to behave as a good person in society is peace of mind that helps him to live happily and achieve his aims of life.

There are many organizations and institutions in the country which offer counselling services. So what is the need for another counselling organization like this?

Several organizations have been offering counselling services in Sri Lanka for a number of years now. But the Buddhist philosophy contains a lot of information regarding counselling which, I think, has not been adequately tapped by these counselling services. This counselling advice which has been available to the villagers through the temple in the past has slowly been taken away from them. In the past if there were family problems between the husband and the wife they went to the temple to settle their differences. This situation has changed very much now. Now it is as if the Buddhist priest at the temple is too busy even to listen to such problems. Therefore, we need to start a trend where people revert to the temple for counselling and, for this purpose, it is necessary to educate the chief incumbents of temples and Buddhist priest regarding counselling skills. In order to do so it is necessary that all organizations engaged in counselling services in the country get together and put in a concerted effort. We are ready to attempt this task. We need to pool the resources for this task.