G-8 Markaz & Bahria Enclave, Islamabad
Whole System Therapy

Family Therapy in Islamabad

PRTS Clinic provides structured family therapy in Islamabad for parent and teenager conflict, joint family tension, and households where communication has quietly shut down.

Sessions are supervised by Dr. Uzma Masroor, consultant clinical psychologist with 28 years of experience, and run in person at G-8 Markaz and Bahria Enclave, or online, in English and Urdu, with whichever family members the work actually needs.

To book, call or WhatsApp 0335-4170919.
You may recognise this

One House, Five Silences

Dinner happens in shifts now, so nobody has to sit at the same table.

Every conversation with your teenager ends at the same slammed door.

The children have learned to carry messages between two adults who are not speaking.

One person's mood decides the weather for the entire house.

Grandparents, parents, and children: three rulebooks running under one roof.

Everyone knows exactly which topics must never be mentioned.

A family is a system, not a collection of individuals. When the system gets stuck, the people who care the most usually hurt the most, and no amount of loving each other harder fixes a pattern that nobody can see. Family therapy exists to make the pattern visible, and then to change it.
The core idea

The Family Sends One Person. We Treat the Room.

Most families arrive with one identified problem member, and it is usually the teenager. He is rude. She has stopped studying. He stays in his room. What decades of family therapy have shown, in clinic after clinic, is that the person carrying the symptom is very often not the source of it.

A child's behavior is frequently the smoke alarm of the house, not the fire.

That is not a polite way of blaming the parents. There is no villain in this work. There is a pattern that formed slowly, that everyone participates in, and that nobody chose. When the pattern changes, the smoke alarm goes quiet on its own. Families who understand this one idea walk out of the first session already lighter.

What actually shifts

What Families Try vs What Family Therapy Does

 
What families usually try What family therapy does instead
Lecturing the problem child harder Understanding what the behavior is signaling, then answering the signal
Elders issuing verdicts to end arguments Every member genuinely heard, including the quiet ones
Keeping the peace by keeping silent Naming the unspoken safely, with a professional referee in the room
Comparing the child to cousins who behave Working with the actual child in front of you
Waiting for time to fix it Patterns do not age out. They get practiced. Therapy interrupts the practice.

Myth

Family therapy means airing the family's private matters and blaming the parents in front of a stranger.

Fact

Nobody gets blamed and nothing gets aired. Sessions are structured, respectful, and completely confidential. Parents routinely leave with more authority in the house, not less, because respected authority works better than feared authority. And elders, when they join, are treated as part of the solution, never put on trial.

Areas we work on

What We Help Families Work Through

Whatever brought you here, the work starts by understanding the household as it actually runs, not as it is supposed to.

Parent and teenager conflict

Marks, phones, career choices, tone, respect: the daily battles and the war underneath them.

Joint family and in-law dynamics

Building one working household when the marriage has more stakeholders than members.

Sibling conflict and favoritism wounds

Including the old ones that everyone insists they are over.

One member's diagnosis affecting everyone

When a child's ADHD, autism, or emotional struggles reshape the whole house, the family needs support alongside the child. A structured psychological assessment in Islamabad often runs in parallel.

Grief, illness, and financial pressure

The events that bend a household out of shape, and the roles nobody agreed to but everyone took.

Separation and its aftermath

Helping children live in the reality that exists, instead of the crossfire.

Communication breakdown across generations

When love is present in the house but cannot find a working language.

Our process

How Family Therapy Works at PRTS Clinic

1

The household gets mapped

Who lives in the home, who decides what, who carries what, and where the pressure sits. Ten minutes of this surprises most families.
2

Everyone gets a voice

In planned combinations: the whole family, the parents alone, the teenager alone. Quiet members are protected, dominant voices are balanced.
3

The pattern is named out loud

The cycle the family runs on repeat gets described in plain words, in the room, without blame. This is usually the turning point.
4

New rules of engagement

Structured exchanges practiced in session, where the old fight physically cannot run the way it runs at home.
5

Home experiments and honest reviews

Small weekly changes, then open review of what moved and what did not.
A common worry

Do We All Have to Come?

No. Family therapy can begin with whoever is willing.

Sometimes that is both parents. Sometimes it is one exhausted mother. Change one part of a system and the system must respond. Teenagers who refuse to attend often agree later, once they notice the house getting quieter, and many prefer to be seen alone first, which we arrange.

Who attends each session is planned deliberately: it is a treatment decision, not an attendance register.

Our credentials

Why Families Trust PRTS Clinic

Family and behavioral work is a core specialty at PRTS Clinic under Dr. Uzma Masroor, consultant clinical psychologist with 28 years of experience, affiliated with Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University and formerly head of the Department of Professional Psychology at Bahria University, Islamabad.
28
Years of consultant clinical psychology experience supervising the work.
2
Islamabad centers, plus online sessions across Pakistan.
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Languages for therapy: English and Urdu.
Our female led clinical team works in English and Urdu, in person at both centers or online, and confidentiality is absolute: nothing said in any session reaches relatives, neighbors, or anyone outside the clinic. Meet the clinicians on our team page.
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focuses the work where it belongs, and the family settles around a steadier center.

And when a child’s own difficulties need individual attention alongside the family sessions, our child psychologist in Islamabad
provides it under the same roof, by the same coordinated team.

FEES

Fee and Booking

Rs. 6,500 /

Per session, whether two people attend or six

Book in person at G-8 Markaz or Bahria Enclave, or online. Call or WhatsApp 0335-4170919, tell us briefly what is happening at home, and we will plan who should come to the first session.
FEES

Fee and Booking

Rs. 6,500 /
Per session, whether two people attend or six
Book in person at G-8 Markaz or Bahria Enclave, or online. Call or WhatsApp 0335-4170919, tell us briefly what is happening at home, and we will plan who should come to the first session.
VISIT US

Our Centers in Islamabad

CENTER 1

G-8 Markaz

Islamabad Specialists Clinic,
Ground Floor, Time Square Plaza,
G-8 Markaz, Islamabad.

CENTER 2

Bahria Enclave

Panorama Plaza,
Commercial Avenue, Sector A,
Bahria Enclave, Islamabad.

Common questions

Frequently Asked Questions

No. Who attends each session is a treatment decision, planned with you: sometimes the whole family, sometimes only the parents, sometimes the teenager alone. Family therapy can even begin with a single willing member, because changing one part of a system forces the system to respond.
No. Family therapy does not work by finding a villain, because stuck families do not have one. They have a pattern that formed slowly and that nobody chose. Parents routinely finish this work with more effective authority in the house, not less, and with far less guilt than they walked in carrying.
Extremely common, and not a dead end. Many teenagers prefer to be seen alone first, without parents in the room, and our clinicians are experienced at earning that trust without forcing it. When a teen still refuses, the work can begin with the parents alone, and the house changes anyway.
Yes, when it helps, and in joint family homes it often helps a great deal. Elders are treated with complete respect and are never put on trial. In many families, one well planned session with the right elder present unlocks more than five sessions without them.
Nothing said in any session leaves the clinic, ever. Within the family, the therapist sets clear privacy ground rules at the start, so everyone knows exactly what stays in individual conversations and what is brought to the joint work. No one gets ambushed with their own words.
Sessions are Rs. 6,500 each at PRTS Clinic, regardless of how many family members attend. Call or WhatsApp 0335-4170919 to book at G-8 Markaz, Bahria Enclave, or online.

Book Family Therapy in Islamabad Today

A house where everyone guards their words is exhausting to live in, and the silence never fixes itself. It just gets better organized. Call or WhatsApp PRTS Clinic and book a first session, with the whole family or with whoever is ready. The house does not need everyone to agree. It needs one person to move first.