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  into responsible adulthood,  and ultimately attain self-actualisation.

  We provide  guidance and counselling services for individuals, schools and other organisations.  Since its inception in 2003, Rapha Counselling Concepts  has   satisfactorily met the guidance and counselling needs of her clients. 

Our school guidance and counselling services include: 

Services for Pupils/Students:

 

–  Study skills improvement

–  Classroom learning enhancement

–  Management of underachievers

–  Personal Growth and career/vocational guidance and Counselling 

–  Behaviour Modification – We use evidence based psychological techniques  to  help  individuals to unlearn  maladaptive behaviours.  We have successfully  helped  some of our clients to resolve challenges such as pilfering, lie telling,  bullying, examination  malpractice, truancy, problematic  gambling,  problematic masturbation,   problematic sexual behaviour,  problematic viewing of pornography, oppositional Defiant Disorder, etc. 

– Life skills  training – Life skills  are abilities that help individuals, especially  young people  to easily navigate through life. Life skills promote mental and physical health, enhance  tolerance and  consequently  supports social  harmony. Life skills are protective factors. There are adequate scientific evidences  that  equipping young people with life skills empowers them  to avoid harmful  behaviours,  such as  substance use and  risky sexual behaviours including sexual violence.  Life skills have been found to keep young people away from crime.  Moreover, life skills equip young people to focus on personal growth, and hence, promote productivity and self-actualisation. 

Our Life Skills training focuses on  communication and  interpersonal skills,  including  negotiation, assertiveness, peer resistance, refusal; critical thinking and  creative thinking;  problem solving and decision making;  self awareness, including values and value clarification;   empathy;  self and stress management skills, goal setting and goal priority, planning, time management, self-care, etc. 

– Sexuality   education –  Our sexuality education programme is  developmentally appropriate, culturally sensitive and child protection focused.  The content includes   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 setting  and  goal priority,   etc. The content  is delivered in a child friendly and developmentally  appropriate manner by only trained professionals. 

– Personality Enhancement and Personal Growth Programme – Our personality enhancement and personal growth package is a short – medium  term counselling interaction  specifically designed to help young people to shape and enhance their evolving personality  and equip them with life skills for sustainable personal growth, so that they would live happily, enjoy a smooth transition into responsible and productive adulthood, and  actualise their potentials.  The components include mentoring, life skills training, and modification of identified problem behaviours that could inhibit the individual’s well being, development and growth. The programme is offered to individuals  in schools and in non school settings.  

Services for Administrators and Teachers:

– Child handling training

– How to create a positive  school climate and  classroom environment

– Improvement of Classroom teaching efficiency

– Teacher’s   image enhancement

–  Training on Prevention of  child sexual abuse within the school and appropriate  response.

– How to prevent substance use among young people

 Parenting Services –  training and individual counselling:

–     How to help  children to maximize their  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
• How to protect children and adolescents from substance use 
• 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  skills training to empower  parents to be able to help  children who  have suffered adverse childhood experiences ( ACEs). 

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