This article synthesizes the long-lasting counseling process of a family with a child suffering from a chronic illness. The provided intervention model draws on a series of principles from various theoretical approaches, namely systemic, psychodynamic, and resiliency. Family functioning and support is considered a catalytic parameter in assisting children with disabilities to fully develop their potential. This project is based on a family and child-centered integrative counseling model adopting the nonmedical conception of disability. Through the presentation of a case study of a couple who faced a critical situation in the life of their child, this article briefly describes the way the family dynamics were readdressed through this intervention counseling model. In addition, this work attempts to give a picture of the complex and confusing emotional states parents may go through when dealing with physical and psychological health-threatening situations and present guidelines for integrated counseling models. Childhood chronic illnesses (CI) may be a source of difficulty to manage emotions and may create a series of practical problems for both the parents and the child. They can also cause a number of specifics limitations that have varying degrees of impact on the child and subsequently the whole family's psychosocial functioning (Dempsey, 2008). Specific medical symptoms and secondary physical or psychosocial problems arise from different conditions, varying in intensity and the need for treatment (Kourkoutas, Georgiadi, & Plexousakis, 2010). Differences in the way the child and its family experience the CI depend on the age the symptoms manifest, the developmental period of the child, the type and extent of medical support needed, the degree of health and life-threatening risk, how noticeable the impairment/disability is, the parents' personality or psychic organization, the family structure and couple's life, and