About Military and Family Life Counseling
Military and family life counselors can help adults and children navigate everyday challenges, including issues related to deployment, stress, moving, relationships, work, the grieving process and more. Adult and child and youth behavioral MFLCs are available in military communities throughout the world.
Types of Support
Child and youth behavioral military and family life counselors
Child and youth behavioral military and family life counselors support families. They also augment child and youth programs, Department of Defense Education Activity schools, local education agencies, camps designed for military children and youth, and special operations commands.
Counselors provide non-medical counseling, consultation and outreach to eligible faculty, staff, parents, children and youth. They may observe, participate and engage in activities with children and youth; provide coaching, guidance and support to staff and parents; and model behavior-management techniques for staff and parents.
Children under 18 must have written parental consent to receive CYB-MFLC support.
- Child Development Center CYB-MFLCs are located at child development centers, where they support children, their families and staff.
- General CYB-MFLCs are available on and off the installation to support the needs of children and families within the community.
- School CYB-MFLCs are based at Department of Defense Education Activity schools and local education agencies of all levels on and off the installation during the school year.
- Youth Center CYB-MFLCs are assigned to installation-based youth and teen centers.
- HealthySteps Specialists are located at military treatment facility pediatric clinics.
Adult Military and Family Life Counselors
Adult MFLCs provide non-medical counseling to service members, spouses, military couples and non-remarried surviving spouses on or off the installation in person and by phone or video. They also provide group briefings and topic-specific presentations to the military community.
- Embedded MFLCs are assigned to military units and readily available to offer flexible support.
- General MFLCs are located at installation Military and Family Support Centers to support the needs of the local community.
How to Contact a Military and Family Life Counselor
Use the MFLC locator to find phone numbers for every MFLC assigned to your installation, unit, school or other location. Each phone number represents an individual MFLC you can call to discuss the support you need.
Calling OCONUS? Your country code will be displayed for a convenient click-to-call option from international locations. You may be required to dial or omit the provided country code depending on where you are calling from.
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