About Counselling Cell :

Dr. Bhumika Agrawal
Head, Counselling cell
Contact No.: 9765136087
Email: bhumikaagrawal1975@gmail.com

About the Cell:

Most of the students experience paradigm shift during their college life. College students sometimes have to deal with personal, physical, mental, emotional, social, financial, familial, peer, academic, sexual issues which may obstruct their path of success and even leading a normal life. Counselling is a process that aims to facilitate personal care of the students to solve their problems through support and guidance of counsellors.

The Counselling Cell of the institute helps students to understand themselves and to introspect the issues that trouble them and guides them to resolve their problems. Counsellor supports students through listening and responding in a confidential, non-judgemental and timely way. The goal of Counselling is to facilitate positive behaviour changes, improve student's ability to manage changes and stress, establish and maintain relationships and to cope effectively with the problems they face.

Objectives of the Cell:

• 1. To help students identify their problems and understand them
• 2. To help students in their period of turmoil and confusion
• 3. To encourage students to manage their emotions and accept the changes.
• 4. To guide students to lead a happy and peaceful life

Roles and responsibilities of Counsellor:

• Establish a safe, trusting environment.
• Help the students put their concern into words.
• Active listening: find out the client's agenda or student's agenda.
• Paraphrase, summarize, reflect, interpret.
• Focus on feelings, not events.
• Transform problem statements into goal statements.
• Explore possible approaches to goal.
• Help students choose one way towards goal develop a plan (may involve several steps)
• Make a contract to fulfil the plan (or to take the next step)
• Summarize what has occurred, clarify, get verification evaluate progress.
• Get feedback and confirmation.

Counselling Process :

• Dedicated time set aside to explore difficulties, stressful situations, or emotional upset faced by a client or students.
• Helping that client or students see their situation and feelings from a different viewpoint, potentially to facilitate change.
• Building a relationship based on trust and confidentiality.

The counselling process should not include:

• Providing advice.
• Being judgmental.
• Pushing the counselor's values.
• Encouraging the client or students to behave as the counsellor would in their own life.
• Emotional attachment between the counsellor and client or students.

Committee Members:

S. N.	Name of Faculty	Designation	Role
1	Dr. Bhumika Agrawal	Associate Professor	Incharge
2	Dr. Sumedha Wankhede	Free-Lancer	Counsellor

Appointment letter of counsellor