About Us

The initiative emanated from the founder’s passion to assist young people to resolve the challenges that impinge on their well- being and development with a view to helping them to achieve a smooth transition  to responsible adulthood and ultimately attain self-actualisation.

Our firm provides    guidance and counselling services for individuals, schools and other organisations.  Since its inception in 2003, the firm has satisfactorily met the guidance and counselling needs of her clients who are mostly schools.

Our school guidance and counselling services include:

Services for Pupils/Students:

 

–  Study skills improvement

–  Classroom learning enhancement

–  Management of under achievers

–  Career guidance

–  Behaviour therapy – This involves using evidence based psychological techniques  to  help  individuals to unlearn  maladaptive behaviours such as stealing, lie telling, oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), bullying, examination  malpractice, truancy and behavioural or non substance addictions, such as problematic  gambling,  problematic masturbation, problematic viewing of pornography,  compulsive sex. 

– Life skills training – values and value clarification,  setting realistic  worthwhile goals, planning, decision making, time management,  assertiveness , self management skills, etc.

– Sexuality   education –  Our sexuality education programme is age and developmentally appropriate, culturally sensitive and child protection focused.  The contents include   self- awareness,  adjusting to pubertal changes, reproductive health information, relationships and consequences of choices, skills on how to avoid sexual abuse,  such as  setting body boundaries,  assertiveness, skills,  decision making skills, impulse or  self-control skills, goal and  priority setting,  etc. The content is delivered in a child friendly, non explicit and non scary style by only trained professionals. 

– Personality improvement – The content includes self-awareness,  self- concept and self-esteem enhancement, building a positive self-image,   character  enhancement and etiquette,   pro- social skills,  etc.

Services for Teachers:

– Classroom child handling training

– How to create a positive  school/ classroom environment

– Improvement of Classroom teaching efficiency

– Teacher’s   image enhancement

–  Training on Child Sexual Abuse Prevention and response.

– Substance Use prevention training

 Parenting Services –  training and individual counselling on:

–     How to help  children to maximize their learning potentials. 

–      Prevention and management of behavioural problems among children

–     how to provide sexuality education for children at different developmental stages – What do   you tell a three  year old boy or girl about  sexuality?  At what age is your son or daughter old enough to start dating?             

• Child sexual abuse prevention within the family and community
• Handling emergent issues in parenting – Should my eight years old have unsupervised access to the internet? Why do young people abuse substances, and how can parents prevent substance use and abuse among young people ?
• Parent child interactional therapy ( PCIT) to help parents resolve relational problems with their children.
• Trauma informed parenting training to equip parents whose children have suffered trauma to be able to facilitate the  children’s healing from trauma / PTSD. 

Individual and Group Counselling Services –Services are rendered to individuals  on one on one basis and in  groups