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Counseling is emerging as one of the most demanding career paths, as there are many areas in one’s life, where making a decision or understanding a problem becomes way too much stressing, and we begin to seek an expert to whom we can express our thoughts, feelings, fears, insecurities or just simply could take an advice from to clear out confusions. This is where the need of a counselor kicks in. A counselor could help people in a lot of personal matters ranging from marriage, education, retrieving mental health, get over a trauma, family issue etc. They help people to keep moving forward in their lives by dealing well with whatever the problem or issue had been holding them back or blocking them from making the right decision.
An essential quality to become a successful counselor is to be compassionate and have a strong commitment to helping people to recover from whatever the issue they might be suffering from in their lives. This quality combined with excellent communication skills could bring out the most potential counselor in any field. There are a lot of specializations to explore if you are interested in becoming a counselor. You may pick the one to which you feel most drawn to. Here is a list:
Let’s discuss them all one by one.
Career and Guidance Counseling
Career counseling guides students and professionals to make right choices according to their interests and capabilities, and help professionals to become more efficient and productive in their work field. A career counselor looks at a person’s education level, work history, and helps them to figure out their strengths and weakness to make the right choice, changes, and improvements accordingly. Their main job is to help people with setting career goals, finding work, and dealing with stress on the job and other career /job-related issues.
Marriage and Relationship counseling
A Marriage/Relationship Counselor is capable of saving a dying marriage or relationship by a strong will of helping people to do better in their personal life. A marriage counselor listens patiently to couples’ issues, reasons for misunderstands, and their opinion of each other. Make them aware of the negative impact of wrong behavior and habits that is causing severe damage to the relationship. Suggest them ways of changing their bad behavioral habits and help them bring understanding and balance into a relationship. They also help couples and families to build better communication among each other.
ChildDevelopment Counseling
Stress and anxiety are often associated with adults only. If we talk about children, it is usually assumed that they live happily and enjoy mostly everything that they do. Their mental health is rarely a concern for their families but the truth is that even children go through stressful times during their childhood/teenage. Child development counselor helps children and teenagers to deal with emotional, behavioral and mental disorders. Children have a different way of thinking and looking at the world. Anxiety, depression, experimentation with alcohol and drugs, puberty and sexuality concerns, self-discipline, time management issues and family crisis such as death or divorce make a serious impact on a child/teenager’s mental health. A child counselor helps children and teenagers with all such issues.
Mental Health Counseling
Everybody goes through challenges in their life at some point or another. People at some stage in their life go through a stressful condition or situation which has very negative effect on their mental health. Being mentally stressed for a long period of time could push a person into depression which requires an expert’s attention. A medical counselor helps his/her patients to get over their mental issues and help them bring a positive outlook at their personal life.They provide psychological and emotional support to their patients.
Rehabilitation Counseling
Living a life with some kind of disability could never be easy. People with emotional, physical, mental and developmental disabilities lead a very hard life. A rehabilitation counselor helps such people to manage and overcome social, personal or psychological disorders associated with disabilities and help them live an independent life. Compassion is the key to helping people with such disabilities.
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Trainer and Psychologist. at Karan Consultants
Ms. Meenu is a Post Graduate in Psychology and P.G Diploma in Educational and Vocational Guidance from N.C.E.R.T Delhi She has about 26 years of work experience in the field of Educational Vocational Guidance and Counseling. She was associated with Delhi Administration schools as Counselor and with Amity International School ,She had conducted many training Programs on Life-Skills & other Modules. She is a National level Resource Person with CBSE on the Project ‘Adolescent Education’ She had also contributed in Counseling Programs / Career Fairs in various Govt. Schools, Communities, Radio and T.V. programs and CBSE Tele Counseling. Her interviews have been published in leading Newspapers & Magazines like India Today, Hindu etc. Currently she is a Freelance Practitioner & has her own Consultancy, Karan Consultants.
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Vikramaditya Duggal is heading his own organisation - Abhivyakti - the Expression. It specialises in training, coaching and consulting services for people, leadership and organizational development. He is a professional banker. He worked in State Bank of India for 22 years. He held a variety of roles and responsibilities during that period. He took early retirement to pursue his passion in the field of learning and development. He was Assistant General Manager and faculty member in State Bank Staff College, Hyderabad when he took retirement. Thereafter, he worked in Administrative Staff College of India and Centre for Organization Development, Hyderabad where he developed and delivered a variety of programs in the field of Organizational Behaviour. Some of his areas of interest include Leadership – an inside-out approach, Emotional Intelligence, Coaching, Communication & Presentation Skills, Negotiation Skills, Team Building and Work Life Balance. He also has the expertise of conducting Out-bound Learning Activities. He is associated with many organizations as Consultant Trainer. He has delivered more than 20 programmes in Indonesia, Philippines and Malaysia. In his experience of over 12 years in the field of Learning & Development, he has interacted with more than 11000 participants from public, private, government sectors and NGOs. He facilitates personal and organizational transformation by encouraging people to discover their hidden potential and take responsibility for change.
Director at Rosary Education System, Rosary Group of Schools, Rajkot
Ph.D. in Education, an educationist having value of commitment & eager to learn new systems, can settle quickly in any academic organization, tuning technology in day today task, tech savvy, eager to upgrade and use educational technology, more comfortable with teacher training and leadership programs, having objective to contribute values and worthiness in the field of education.
Applied Psychologist And Career Counselor
Ms.Indumathi is a certified counselor. She has completed Msc Psychology, PGDSOH, Post graduate diploma in Guidance and counseling and a Certification in counseling skills. She is an Applied Psychologist and practicing counseling from past 10 years. She is associated with Abhudhaya NGO as a Applied Psychologist to assist in projects with students, schools and teachers. She is also working as a Project lead for one of the 500 fortune company.
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