Adolescence is a period of rapid mental and physical growth. The college going students in this phase may face several negative life events including personal, familial and academic, where adaptation and adjustment may be necessary. If family dynamics are not proper, no mutual support is available to bounce back from negative events. To evaluates the effectiveness of CBT in improving family dynamics of adolescents who have negative life event induced Retrospective one group pre-test posttest study Adolescents aged 17 to 21 years, both male and female, who approached the counseling cell from January to June 2020, from Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. Out of 62 approached students, 50 completed the required counseling sessions.80% of severely depressed belonged to nuclear family. 74% had moderate depressive episode, 20% had severe and 6% were on border line clinical depression. Pre CBT, 80% of severely depressed students were having bad relationship with parents whereas 41% of moderate level depressed students were having satisfactory relationship with parents. Post therapy sessions, 23.8% improvedto good relationship from bad, 58.8% to good from satisfactory, and 66.7% to satisfactory from bad. There is significant difference in Pre CBT scores and post CBT BDI scores as p=0.000 at 99% confidence interval. CBT is effective in improving the relationship between adolescents and their parents, thus contributing to reduction in symptoms of negative life event induced depressive episodes.It is important for mental health providers/ counselors at college premises to foster adolescent-parent relationship.