Service Description

Counselling helps clients to take better decisions. It benefits to improve personal skills, develop greater confidence in the person’s academic or work performance, define career directions and acquire a keener awareness and appreciation of the client’s needs and those of other people. Benefits of this service: 1. Improvement in decision making abilities 2. Development of personal confidence 3. Enhancement of performance in your academic and professional life 4. Expansion in your self-awareness 5. Enrichment in your interpersonal and intrapersonal relationship 6. Establishment of conflict management skills The process of Counselling: Stage 1: Relationship Building. Tasks here include: • Laying foundations for trust. • Establishing the structure and form the relationship will take. • Informed consent process . Stage 2: Identifying the nature of the presenting problem. Tasks here include: • To understand the kind of change that is sought. • Seeing the problem in context to the client’s larger world. • Keeping an eye on the strengths and resources of the client. • The Counselor builds hypotheses during this stage and throughout the maintenance process. Stage 3: Formulation of Counselling Goals. Tasks here include: • The client articulates where they want their counseling journey to take them. Client role as one of driving the bus. • Enhances sense of ownership and motivation factors important in the change process. • Well identified goals help create a roadmap and means to evaluate. • Goals may change, evolve as therapy progresses. Stage 4: Categories: counselling goals. Tasks here include: • To change an unwanted or unwelcome behavior. • To better cope. • To make and implement decisions. • To enhance relationships. • To help client’s journey of growth toward achieving potential Stage 5: Intervention and Problem Solving. Tasks here include: • Begins as soon as goals are established – there is a plan for how to achieve them. • Action is directed in accordance with a new perspective. • Collaboratively established plan works best. Educational information is given to that client and is offered regarding options, and advantages/disadvantages for each. ***Follow Up*** At times, a follow-up may be scheduled for various reasons including evaluation, research, or checking with clients. It needs to be scheduled so as to not take the responsibility of change away from the client.