The Egyptian Foundation for Family Development established a Family Counseling Center in 2008 in order to provide outstanding service to all family members, especially women, with regard to the problems they face from social and legal aspects. The Center adopts the Rights Based Approach as fixed and authentic reference to deal with problems and situations that require advice and guidance to women frequently visit the Center.
By the end of 2008 and with the Foundation's success in transforming the idea of legal advice into a legal support center where cases of women are received and assisted to reach their legal rights with the full support of the Foundation, the women actual need, during that period, became clear and psychological support was provided to them, in addition to the social and legal support. Therefore the Foundation established the establishment of a psychological counseling unit, to provide the necessary advice to women who frequently visit the unit by a psychological specialist.  

Through our work in family counseling with its 3 aspects, it became clear to us that there is a real need for studying women psychological problems in more detail and to improve Psychological Service provided to them because the psychological problems are considered the most things that negatively affect the lives of these women and they cannot exceed them easily.
The Foundation has, since the beginning of the year 2013, started the development of a more structured plan for psychiatric treatment of women through the following:
Hotline Service to receive calls from women exposed to psychological violence on the number (01206424449).
-    Conducting individual interviews with some cases.
-     Conducting group therapy sessions for women who suffer from the negative effects of psychological violence.
-     Educate women about the risks of psychological violence to be aware of the psychological violence nature and types and mechanisms to combat it and how to prevent it.
- Women workshops on the art of storytelling to be trained on how to use the psychological suffering as a means to get rid of the effects of violence.

The methodology of work of family counseling center is as follows:
1- Reception of cases that go directly to the Foundation or through a phone call.
2- Identifying the initial data (optional).
3- Listening to the complain or consultation
4- Determining the type of counseling (social - legal - psychological)
5- taking necessary action.
6- Monitoring continuously the cases to make sure that the problems they face have been ended up rather preventing aggravation of the problems with the possibility of addressing them.
7- The Foundation is trying continuously to integrate women, that frequently visit the counseling center, in the various activities of the Foundation for the development of their own and human abilities .