40 FAQ About Counseling Courses
We have answers to 40 common questions people ask related to our PG Diploma and other counselling courses. Click on the Question to read the detailed answers.
We understand there are some fake organizations you might have come across and so getting doubtful about us is normal. The founder himself maintains the data in the website. It is accurate. You may take screenshots and we assure you that we won’t change our words later.
If we try hard to make people trust us, some become more doubtful. We can’t help it. So we just request to consider the following to confirm our credibility. If you can’t trust us, better do not enroll in our programs with doubts about our credibility. We cannot convince you to trust us.
1.Verify our Govt. of India Registration Number: You can check our registration Number in https://udyamregistration.gov.in/Udyam_Verify.aspx Our Registration number with Ministry of Small & Medium Scale Enterprises, Govt. of India is UDYAM-TN-02-0007295 Please copy paste the the registration number and do not try to type as you may miss some characters.
2.Verify GSTIN: You may visit https://services.gst.gov.in/services/searchtp and provide our GSTIN: 33AMLPR6303E1Z7. Please copy paste the GSTIN and do not try to type as you may miss some characters. Mobile version of the GST website is not working often. So kindly use Laptop/PC to check. You can see our GST Registration certificate in our About Us Page https://counselingchennai.com/about-chennai-counseling-services/
3.Google Page: Go to www.maps.google.com or Open Google Maps app in your mobile phone and search for “Chennai Counseling Services & CCS Academy”. You will get both our T Nagar and OMR Google Locations. Regularly we update posts, photos and get new reviews. 1000+ reviews are there. You may sort for the recent reviews. If you think we have deleted all the negative reviews and kept only positive reviews, please understand that Owners of the Google Business Profile will be able only reply to the reviews and cannot delete them. We can maximum report it to Google if its not following the Community Guidelines given by Google. If you think all the positive reviews are fake or paid reviews, we can’t help it.
4.Payment Gateways: Payment is fully taken care by Paytm Payment Gateway and Stripe Payment Gateway – These are trustworthy gateways. Your payment data is processed in their websites. In case of any issues in the payment, you can contact their 24/7 customer care also.
If you are worried about giving your card details in gateways, please use NetBanking via PhonePe Payment Gateway, you will not give any bank related details in the website of the Gateway. You will just choose the bank under NetBanking and go to your bank website. Please check whether your bank website is secure with “https” in the URL, check for the spelling of your bank in the address bar and see whether it looks the same way it was before and make the payment.
The other option is to manually making the payment via IMPS or UPI. The bank account details are given on the registration page itself. Please use the details given and transfer money manually.
5. Secure website with “https”: You can click on the lock symbol of the address bar and check the full details of our SSL Certificate which proves that the data you give in this site is encrypted and secure.
6. Visit us in person: If you inform us in advance, we will give you a timing to visit our academy located at T Nagar. We work based on appointments only, so it’s important to inform us in advance if you plan to visit. This will ensure that someone is available to meet with you and that the office is open. We value the work-life balance of our staff, so they are encouraged to come to the office only when there is work. Many counseling sessions happen online, and the admin manager works from home as her work timing is 10 hours every day. This helps to ensure that the staff can maintain a healthy work-life balance.
PG Diploma from CCS Academy:
Yes, it is a recognized and valid course. Chennai Counseling Services is registered as MSME (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise) under Government of India. We have also got GST registration. Accreditation from International Association of Therapists is also there and we follow all the rules given by the organization in our courses. Your Certificate will have the MSME Govt. of India Registration Number, Accreditation Number of International Association of Therapists and GSTIN of Chennai Counseling Services which is the proof that your certificate is valid.
According to the laws in India and University Grants Commission (UGC) Rules, affiliation from a University is compulsory for DEGREE COURSES ONLY. For Diploma and certificate courses, getting affiliation from an University is OPTIONAL. Our institute is similar to software training institutes like NIIT and APTECH offering PG Diploma, Diploma and Certificate courses WITHOUT any affiliation from a university. In India, any registered institution can provide skill development diploma and certificate courses. Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diploma#Indi
Advanced Skill Diploma in partnership with GLOCAL UNIVERSITY:
Yes, the certificate is given by GLOCAL UNIVERSITY, a UGC Recognized University. private university which has the approval under Section 22 of the UGC Act, 1956. It is the regular member of Association of Indian Universities (AIU) and has the approval of AICTE & NCTE. Your certificate will have logo of GLOCAL UNIVERSITY.
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Union Govt. of India has set up National Commission for Allied and Healthcare Professionals to regulate the counseling and mental health related professions in the country however the body has not come up with a clear guidelines for the current students and practicing professionals till now.
Please note that some organizations/ institutions may ask for a one year Diploma or Degree in Psychology from a UGC recognized university to employ counselors. If you want to be employed in such organizations, you may do the course which we offer in partnership with GLOCAL UNIVERSITY.
The internship is embedded in the training programme itself. It will be mostly practical and less theoretical. In PG Diploma, every day at least 1 live counselling session will happen for you to observe in Sunday Batches and in weekday batches, at least 1 session per week will happen. In Advanced Skill Diploma, one counseling session will happen on alternative classes. Participants would become clients voluntarily, they will be sharing their original concerns. So they are going to be real live counseling sessions and not just role plays or mock sessions.
In the course, the facilitator helps you to learn the theories which he practices to help his clients and helps to improve your skills and just NOT the knowledge. He will show how he practices counselling by doing counselling sessions in front of you and helps you to get a concrete idea of how to put the theories into practice. Theories are taught with practical examples. So that there is no gap between theory and practice.
In college courses, the ones who prepare the syllabus do not write the books for the syllabus. The academicians read the reference books and share their understanding that is why the colleges courses are mostly theoretical. The academicians are not all the time directly trained in the theories and models written in the books. So they are not able to train you in developing the skills with so many hours/months of education.
In our courses, the facilitator is the one who prepares the syllabus, writes the material and trains you in the model he practices. So you are learning from the person who made the model directly. The essence of the course is maintained as it is not different people dealing with the preparation of syllabus, books and training.
Counselling is an art like swimming or driving. Seeing the facilitator doing the counselling sessions will not enhance your counselling skills. So we give you the opportunity to do counselling in front of the trainer like they do in swimming classes or driving classes.
In our courses, the facilitator will do the counseling sessions for you to observe for the first 3 sessions. After that, as participants are trained well, they will start doing the counseling sessions. For weekend batch of PG Diploma, we make sure that at least 1 counseling session happens from 4th day till the end of the course. We also try to do 2 counseling sessions per day in the last few days of the training. In weekday batch of PG Diploma, we make sure at least 1 counseling session happens in every week. Hence usually you will observe 12-15 sessions. In Advanced Skill Diploma course, we make sure at least 1 session is done by participants on every alternate class. Hence you will usually observe, 25 counseling sessions.
If you are struck during the session, you can freeze the session and get ideas from fellow participants or from the facilitator or look at your notes. Once you get some clarity, you can unfreeze the session and continue the process. ‘N’ number of times, you can freeze and unfreeze the counselling session. There will be a discussion on the session immediately to correlate with the theories learnt.
In our other programmes such as trainings, webinars and workshops related to counselling skills, facilitator would do counseling sessions based on the number of hours available. Surely at least one counseling session will be done for you to observe. Please understand theory will help you practice effectively.
You can check the google reviews which say about the practical aspects of the course: https://goo.gl/maps/YS8GcRFGMgJ2
For our PG Diploma Course: Certificate will be sent via WhatsApp in PDF Format within 3 business days from the last day of the training. Participants should download it right away and transfer it to their mail or Google Drive or Dropbox as WhatsApp will not keep it forever if not downloaded. Our certificates will have CCS registration number. For our PG Diploma course, it will state the number of hours of theoretical and practical training in psychological counselling. Approval Details of International Association of Therapists and Ministry of MSME, Govt. of India will be given in the Certificate.
You may see the Certificate Specimen here : https://counselingchennai.com/certificate-specimen/
You can go to any Photocopy shop and give the PDF file of the E-Certificate. Please mention you want the colour print in certificate sheet. It would cost around 30 INR.
In case you are doing it for your academic requirement of IGNOU or some other college or university, you should share the format given by your institution. We will provide the internship certificate in the format under our letter head after reviewing the internship report as per your academic requirements such as 10 case studies. Internship report should be submitted within 30 days from the viva date. If you miss the certificate or you wanted some change in the certificate due to your mistake during the registration, you will have to pay the certificate processing fee of Rs. 200 and get it again.
The reasons behind why we do not send certificates by courier are as follows 1. In spite of our safe packaging, many of them were damaged during the transits 2. Due to short staffing of courier companies in the rural areas, delivery was very much delayed and participants panicked. 3. Some of them went missing either in the transportation or after reaching the participant.
For GLOCAL UNIVERSITY Advanced Skill Diploma Course: Certificate will be prepared by GLOCAL UNIVERSITY, it will take about 2 months to receive the certificate after the final exam results declaration. The certificates will be received by us. A graduation ceremony will happen and the certificate will be distributed. Those who cannot attend the ceremony can send someone to get it on behalf of them or we may send by courier.
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You will be informed whenever we come to know about job opportunities through WhatsApp Alumni group after your completion of the course. If you are interested in the opportunity and eligible as per the employer’s requirements, you can apply and appear for the interview. Through the information given by the academy, participants have attended interviews and placed in organizations like Prime India, Apollo Life and many other schools.
Actually our focus is to empower you to give proposals to institutions and go as a consultant counselor and/or practice as an independent counsellor in your own private practice. How to start private practice, how to register your practice under Govt. of India and how to market are also taught in our Diploma Course. In June 2022, We have started bookconsult.in – platform for CCS Academy Alumni to start their private practice. Already around 100 people are practicing through that platform. Those who complete our PG Diploma course are only eligible join the platform. You may see the list of counselors practicing through the platform via this page https://bookconsult.in/find/
Experience may be required to give advice or suggestion and NOT counseling. Expertise in Counselling will fetch you the job. During interview, if you are asked “You don’t have experience, how can we believe you will give good counselling?”, your answer can be “Experience is not equal to expertise. I have enough skills in Counselling. I am ready to do counselling in front of you if you can give me a client”. Sometimes you need to psycho-educate the employers on the difference between advice and counselling. CCS believes in empowering you to get the expertise and skills in Counselling so that you are self-dependent most of the times.
As per the laws of India, there is no rule that PG Diploma should be for 1 year. We do not spend much time on theory and we directly go to practical part in the first week itself.
In our course, the facilitator helps you to learn the theories he practices and helps to improve your skills and not just knowledge. 100 hours is a good length of time to hone your skills. He will show how he practices counselling by doing counselling sessions in front of you and helps you to get a concrete idea of how to put the theories into practice.
In college courses, the ones who prepare the syllabus do not write the books for the syllabus. The academicians read the reference books and share their mere understanding that is why the course is only theoretical most of the time. The academicians are not all the time directly trained in the theories and models written in the books. So they are not able to train you in developing the skills with so many hours/months/years of education.
In our courses, the facilitator is the one who prepares the syllabus, writes the material and trains you in the model he practices. So you are learning from the person who made the model directly. That is why we say 100 hours is a good amount of time to learn the skills.
If you want to get trained more, then you may enroll in the 1 year course offered in partnership with GLOCAL UNIVERSITY. That course is for 200 hrs spread for 1 year of time.
After completing the course, you can opt to join the Alumni WhatsApp group and be in touch with the facilitator. In the group, various job opportunities, information about specialized training and Supervision meetings will be posted. We also have the site BookConsult.in which helps you to set up your own private practice. Already 75+ Counsellors are on board. You can see the profiles on this page https://bookconsult.in/find/
Supervision meetings happen final Saturday of every month from 3.00 PM to 5.00 PM with a nominal charge of Rs. 250/-. You can attend supervision meeting only if you have completed our course. For more details on the supervision meeting, please visit https://counselingchennai.com/supervision-meeting/
Registration can be done online by Clicking the button “Register & Pay” in the webpage of the course. You don’t have to come in person.
When you press the button, it will ask your basic details such as name, phone number, email id, qualification. You will have to mention the batch in the notes section. You can pay through GPay, PhonePe, Paytm and other UPI Apps to 9362994035 using the manual payment option. If you can pay via Net Banking, Debit Card, Credit Card, Wallets by using Payment Gateway.
If you are not from India, you can pay via Debit Card or Credit Card in Stripe Payment Gateway.
If you want to come in person and see the place, please inform us. We will give you a timing to visit. Our office will not be open all the time. We work on appointment basis only. You will be making online payment only. We do not accept any cash payments.
PG Diploma Course:
You can pay the fee in 2 installments (16K+10K). You will have to pay INR 16,000/- to block the seat. You need to pay the second installment of INR 10,000/- on or before 5th of the next month. If you cannot pay the second installment, you will not be allowed to attend the class and certificate cannot be given. During the registration in our website, please choose manual payment option and pay the first installment of 16K through GPay/PhonePe/any other UPI app to 9362994035 or IMPS. Your order will be on hold until you pay the second installment. Once you make the payment of 10K, you will receive the receipt of 26K through E-Mail. If you register for the course in the same month of course starting date, this option is not possible.
Step 1: Make sure that the course is starting NOT in the same month of payment.
Step 2: Transfer 16K through GPay/PhonePe/UPI app to 9362994035
Step 3: Send the screenshot of the payment via WhatsApp to +91 98403 10536
Step 4: Go to the course page https://counselingchennai.com/pg-diploma
Step 5: Press Register & Pay Button @ the above given page and fill up your details. Choose the last payment option – Manual Payment and Press Place Order Button
(Your order will be on hold. Once you pay the second installment of 10K, your order will be confirmed and you will receive the receipt in E-Mail)
On or before 5th of the Next Month – Step 6: Transfer 10K through GPay/PhonePe/UPI app to 9362994035 and Send the screenshot of the payment via WhatsApp to +91 98403 10536 (Your order will be confirmed within 1 hour and receipt mail will be sent). If the payment is not made within the deadline, the person will be removed from the course group and registration will be cancelled immediately. No refund will be given. No extension will be given and no reason will be accepted.
The other option is – if you have credit card, please use it and make payment via Paytm Payment Gateway or Stripe Payment Gateway and talk to your bank to convert it to EMIs.
GLOCAL University Course:
Participant has to pay 25K during the admission. We will pay that 25K to University and start the admission process. On or before 5th October- 25K and on or before 5th November-25K should be paid to our bank account. Please ping us on WhatsApp to get our bank account details.
We believe that we deliver a good training worthy of the money you pay.
We request you to look into the following things before judging whether the fee is costly.
1. Number of participants: We stick to 25-30 all the time in our PG Diploma Course for personal attention to each and every participant. Most of the organizations do not even mention the number of participants in their brochure or website very clearly.
2. Number of hours rather the duration of the full course in months: We clearly say it is a 100 hrs course for our PG Diploma course. Many organizations advertise saying 3 months course but the actual classes will happen only for few hours per week/month.
3. Number of hours spent productively: Out of the 100 hrs, 87 hours the facilitator works with you in the PG Diploma course. Many organizations give assignments or some other work to calculate the hours and show many hours. We do not do so.
4. The quality of the Study Material provided whether it includes complete whereabouts of the topics discussed. We have been revising the study material often to help the participants and learn it easily.
The costing of 26,000 for PG Diploma Course includes 6% GST which would be paid to the Government. The actual cost of the course is only INR 24,530/- If you divide that 24,530 by 100, the cost per hour is around 250 which very is reasonable while comparing with the market rates when the number of participants is 30 or less even if you compare with the fee of self financing courses run in the colleges where the number of students per class would be 50.
We give our full efforts to help you get the skills in our PG Diploma course. We request you to value and compensate our efforts. We try hard to make our PG Diploma course as the one stop course for fundamentals in counselling skills. So that you may not have to attend any other internship/course for skill development.
We keep the number of participants to be maximum 25-30 in all our courses (except webinars) to make it interactive unlike Distance Education Contact classes where every class may have 50 to 100 students. We do not get any aid from the government like universities or have corpus funds to take care of administrative expenses like the colleges run by trusts have.
Even after these logical explanations if you feel our courses are costly, kindly specifically tell us what makes you feel it is costly, we can give an explanation for your consideration.
We run our organization ethically and transparently. Discounts may hamper the transparency. So we do not provide any discount. Discount/Scholarship is simply a marketing gimmick to attract more participants. Those who run organizations know the real cost for their services and would provide them in the cost that would take care of incurring expenses surely such as Rent, Electricity Bill, Website Maintenance, Internet Connection and Salary.
You may visit the google reviews to understand our efforts for our courses. https://goo.gl/maps/YS8GcRFGMgJ2
If we provide early bird discount, the ones who pay later have to pay extra to compensate. We feel it is unfair for those who pay later.
If we provide group discount, you will have to convince your friends/contacts to join our programme. It may cause issues in your relationship with the other people. We do not want to embarrass you by marketing for our programmes. You may pass on the information about our programmes or recommend our programmes. If they decide to join, let them join.
Some organizations provide Student Discount/Scholarship with the idea that the efforts for the students will be lesser while comparing with the professionals. In our courses, we do not treat Students and Professionals in a different way. For us, all our participants are same and we give our full efforts to help them learn counseling whether they are professionals or students. Some other organizations give student fee and professionals fee separately keeping the fee for professionals high. In this case, the professionals have to pay extra to compensate. We feel it is unfair for professionals as they will have their own family expenses. We understand students may have financial issues and that is why we have separate internship programmes student population usually happening in summer vacation.
Hybrid Mode means both offline and online modes are integrated. We use projector and blue tooth device to make participants online to interact with the facilitator and participants offline. Please try to stick to a single mode for most of the classes either offline or online so that it will be easy for us to track your attendance.
We believe basically counseling is counselling. Based on the setting of counseling, it is named such as Corporate Counselling, School Counseling and Hospital Counselling. Based on the concerns addressed, it is named as marital counseling, family counseling, grief counseling and career counseling. Based on the population, it is named as Adolescent Counselling, Child counseling and Geriatric Counselling.
Also as you might know Counselling is NOT about giving solutions for client’s problems. So we are NOT going to learn about how to do counseling for different problems but how to help the client to improve his/her mental health and thereby empower him become self-dependent to solve problems in various aspects of his/her life in the present and as well as in future.
Hence if you learn how to do counseling and improve your counseling skills, later you can adapt yourself according to the setting/concern/population. The extra things you need to know for each setting and concern are also given in the curriculum of Diploma Course which will help you to adapt the counselling techniques according to your clients/setting/concerns/population. We are trying to give a one stop course for all the techniques and types of counselling. By the end of the course, you may not have any big need to attend more training/internship/course.
1. All our courses are skill development courses and not theoretical ones. Though you have “studied” all the topics, did you “learn” the skills required? If your answer is “no” or “not that much”, you may enroll in the course and learn the skills.
Counselling is an art. So it is not going to be the same training though the topics are the same or similar. Here the Counselor would show how to put whatever you have studied in college or some other course to practice counselling. You may visit the google reviews to understand the experience of participants who have already studied the topics in their colleges. Google reviews can be read from https://goo.gl/maps/YS8GcRFGMgJ2
2. Counseling as a discipline has got numerous approaches, techniques, schools of thought and styles. So the way people learnt elsewhere would be different. Because of this reason, we cannot just build the skills on the different theoretical background received from some other places. If we try to do it, it will be like training people on advanced Carnatic music for those who were trained in folk music. They won’t be able to get the nuances as the basics of Carnatic Music as it is different from Folk Music. Though music is an umbrella term, folk music is different from Carnatic music in many aspects.
3. You would not have studied our Easy Integration Model anywhere else as it is the model developed by our facilitator which would help you find out which technique/theory/approach to use for which kind of clients. It will surely a new value addition for you. Only in our training programmes, it is practically taught.
4. Finally we need more participants for becoming clients in the training. Not many people want advanced syllabus. So if we conduct a separate training for those who are trained theoretically elsewhere, not that many will join. Hence we try to fit the ones who want advanced training also in the courses already running and help them in the course itself to hone their skills by giving individual attention.
When we provided internship that would give opportunity to observe the clients’ sessions, 99% of clients did not give consent for the interns to observe the session as the clients were concerned about confidentiality.
Thus interns had to wait for many days to observe a single counselling session. That’s when we conceived the training programme with real counselling sessions. We do not do mock sessions or role play in our training. In almost all of our batches, there have been minimum 1 or maximum 10 participants attended the training for their college/university internship requirement and observed real counselling sessions and completed their internship successfully. You may search in the Google Reviews with the term “Internship” and you will get the reviews of the people. Google Review Link: https://goo.gl/maps/YS8GcRFGMgJ2
In clinical settings where patients suffer from severe psychological disorders may not bother interns sitting and observing the session as they may not be in touch with reality but our clients are normal and they just have day-today issues. That is why it is very rare to get consent in a counseling set up like ours.
We understand that the very reason behind joining as an intern is to get the practical exposure. We make sure that you get it. We would train you with all the necessary skills to become a professional as the one stop internship for all specializations in Counselling. We would like to you to respect and compensate our time and efforts. We do not ask our interns to do any work for us.
If you join an organization where they provide free internship, you may have to do whatever work you are given and you may not be able to choose what you want to learn. They may even give data entry job which is no way directly related to counselling. If such a thing happens, you may get a certificate saying you did internship but the purpose of getting the practical exposure would not be met.
Anyone above 18 years can join our courses. No upper age limit for the courses.
Many of counselling sessions are done online, thus whenever there is in person counseling or training only, the place will be open. We value the work-life balance of our staff, so we encourage them to come to the office only when there is work. The admin manager works from home as her work timing is 10 hours every day on all 7 days of the week.
Usually on Friday or Sunday, our admin manager will be available at our office for a stipulated period of time to attend people who come to enquire at our T Nagar office. The facilitators are fully occupied in the counseling sessions, training programs and other administrative tasks. We understand you want to meet the facilitators to understand more things about their training methodology. We request you to post your queries in the form of voice message to our admin manager and she will transfer it to the facilitators and get you their answers.
If you just want to visit and meet the admin manager, please contact us on keeping yourself available to come on Friday or Sunday. The admin manager would look into her work schedule and give you a timing to visit. In the past we have seen many people did not come on time or did not come at all stating various reasons or no reason. Sometimes people came well in advance and screamed at us saying we made them wait. We do not want any such thing to happen again. So we request you to come exactly at the time given to you. If you come in advance, please wait with patience. If you are not able to come due to some personal reasons, please inform us at least 4 hrs in advance.
From Monday to Thursday and Saturday between 12 Noon and 6.30 PM, you can come and see the place. A full-time counselor will usually be present in the office, and she will be occupied with counseling and do not disturb her. She will not be able to give you the course details. It is better you check with admin manager whether the place will be open before you come.
If you think this is complicated, we request you not to consider joining our course. We cannot keep a person in the office all the time for people to trust us.
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If you come in cab or auto, pl search for “Chennai Counseling Services & CCS Academy, Arulambal Street ” and book.
Nearest Public Transit Stations:
Nearest Bus Stops: Tirumalai Pillai Road (160m), Jeeva Park (240m), Vaani Mahal (290m) Quality Sabari Inn (270 m) Kamarajar illam (350 m)
Nearest MRTS Railway Station: Kodambakkam (1.1 km)
Nearest Metro Railway Station: AG DMS (1.2 km)
Landmark: After Reaching State Bank of India at Bazulla Road, take the very next street leading to Jeeva Park. On your right, you will find a puncture shop in the starting of the street and then an Ironing Vehicle, if you keep coming further on the opposite side, you will see an Independent House (Opp. House is painted in Yellow Color). Take the first gate which leads down to the basement section.
Parking is not available inside the building. There would be space in the right side of the building to park your vehicle.
It is highly subjective. If you had lost in touch with the subject or you are very new to the subject, perhaps it requires some time for preparation so that you can grasp the skills easily. We understand you do not have time and keep running. In the live training, the facilitator would not disturb you to answer his questions and will not ask you to do counselling sessions. You can be an observer during the class and when you find time, you may prepare and improve your skills.
It is better you join our 1 year course as there will be more time for you to go through the material, videos and prepare for skill development.
Usually seats are filled on first come first served basis. So generally there is no such last date to register. Please check with us if there are seats available before registration.
For certain courses/workshops, last dates would be given in the respective webpages along with the dates of the course.
We are a team of integrative practitioners. We can train you on what he practices. We do not use a singular approach in our counseling practice. You may consider joining our PG Diploma course in which we train you on 10 therapies including CBT, REBT, Gestalt Therapy. The training is on Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy.
As integrative counselors, we recognize the value of various therapeutic approaches and understand that no single method suits all clients or situations. Our integrative approach allows us to draw from a wide range of theories and techniques, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Gestalt Therapy, to tailor our interventions to the unique needs of each client.
While we appreciate the depth and focus that specialized training in CBT or Gestalt Therapy can offer, our training programs are designed to provide a holistic understanding of multiple modalities. This equips our counselors with the flexibility to integrate different strategies and adapt to the evolving therapeutic landscape.
Our goal is to foster counselors who are versatile, adaptive, and prepared to meet their clients where they are, using the most effective tools available from the entire spectrum of therapeutic practices.
The objective of course is to train people on how to provide counselling for others. It may be useful to improve your mental health. However taking a counselling/therapy session will be more useful to take care of your psychological issues while comparing with joining this course.
Most of our training programmes are hybrid and so you can choose to come in person or attend online. We have been doing online courses from April 2020.. We take lots of efforts to bridge the gap between the in-person training and online training due to which we got lots of good feedback saying there is no big difference. We believe it’s not whether in-person or online training, it’s your involvement and our involvement that make the course successful.
It will be interactive just like the direct class. The prime reason behind requesting the participants to keep the video switched-on all the time is that the facilitator will give personal attention to each and every participant and answer all their queries then and there. He will check with participants whether they understood the concepts at the end of every topic. Unlike many other online training programmes, you will be able to see the other participants in programmes and you can interact with them too. Online Participants are allowed to mute and unmute themselves.
You may check the latest feedback given by the participants in google review page from April 2020. Two reviews are given here for your perusal : https://goo.gl/maps/F57x5JWr2DG824WaA and https://goo.gl/maps/x4fnumpHkZyr1oX36
Our online live courses through Google Meet is 99% like in-person training. Moreover you don’t have to travel. You can get the complete training from the comfort of your home. It just requires little bit open mind and non judgmental attitude about online trainings.
If you think you will not be able to sit for a long period of time in online training or you think all the above are marketing gimmick or the reviews are fake, you may join a webinar conducted by the facilitator and get the first hand data to decide.
If you have issues in the internet connection/mobile data, please consider the following.
1. Go to Google and type “Internet speed test”. It will show a button “Run Speed Test”. Click on it and run it and take the screen shot. Go to at least 3 locations of your house and test where the uploading and downloading speed is better and choose to sit in that place when you are attending the training. Usually open space or near window has better data connection. It’s ok even if the place is going to be little noisy as your voice will be muted by the facilitator and whenever you want to talk, you can un-mute and talk.
2. Close all other apps and keep only Google meet app open. Other apps such as Facebook or Twitter can consume more data. Background data consumption should also be disabled for all other apps. Please read this article fully. https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/speed-up-slow-mobile-data/ It will give you very good tips.
3. Minimum of 2 GB will be required for the 6 hrs training. If you are using a plan which provides lesser data than 2 GB, please recharge only data plan that gives more data.
4. If you have 2 sim cards, check which ones internet speed is better and which ones data per day is better and make it as SIM no. 1 or go to settings and allow data connection through that specific sim card.
5. Please monitor the mobile data usage during the break time and decide whether to purchase extra GBs or switch off your video.
Even after these explanations, you still have doubt on the effectiveness of the training, please let us know what is your exact difficulty. We will try our best to address it.
For most of our long term courses, you are eligible. For PG Diploma, upon registering for the course, you will receive a reading material on Basic Psychology. Please read it thoroughly before attending the course. For GLOCAL University course, the basic psychology topics will be taught. So it is better to join Advanced Skill Diploma – the one year course.
For our PG Diploma course, 2 viva voice examinations will happen. The first one will be after completing 16 chapters and the second one will be at the end of the course. If missed due to unavoidable circumstances, it can be attended on the viva day of another batch/course. In any way, viva should be attended within 30 days from the last day of the course.
For GLOCAL University partnership course, there will be 3 viva voice examination as part of internal assessments.
It is a private one-on-one viva voice examination. For online mode students, it will happen via WhatsApp video call/google meet.
Since counselling is an art like singing, learning from different people at the same time may confuse you. Every counselor has his/her own style and approach. In our experience, we have seen the trainings are effective if there is only one facilitator and just 2. The students also find it easier to get along with the style/approach of the facilitators. In unavoidable circumstances like the main facilitator is not well or something, we introduce the 3rd facilitator.
Please whatsapp text to +91 9840 31 0536 with your name and educational background. You will be added to broadcast message list and communicated when such a course takes place. You should have saved the number to receive broadcast messages. Whatsapp does not deliver broadcast messages if the receiver has not saved the number from which it is broadcasted.
You will be added in the whatsapp group where the Google Meet Link will be sent.
Things required:
1. Mobile or Tablet or Laptop or Desktop with Internet Connection via Broadband/Fibernet/High Speed Mobile Data with at least daily usage of 3 GB. For safety, please have two sources of internet connection. Keep your mobile phone in full charge in case you use your phone. Avoid charging it during the meeting.
2. Ear phones or Head Phones with extended microphone to prevent Echo and external noise. If you don’t use headphones or ear phones it would be a big disturbance to others. So pl buy or borrow one if you don’t have. This is very important. Many minutes were wasted in the past trainings due to non usage of headphones/ear phones asking the participants to mute and unmute several times. If you have never used to ear phones or you are allergic psychologically to ear phones, at least use them whenever you talk.
3. Print out/PDF of the material opened in another device such as another mobile or laptop. (The material will be sent the day before the training’s starting date) The other device can be another phone or laptop for viewing PDF of the material. Do not keep many other apps open during the training time in the device where you use google meet.
4. A notepad and a pen
5. A private room without any distractions. No one else should be present in the room. If people are going to be present in the room, you should use headphones/earphones and change the background..
6. GMAIL address that shows your official name in English as registered in the course page of our website. If you join with some other name, your invitation to join the meeting will be rejected and you won’t be able to join the class.
Steps:
1. If you use mobile or tablet, please make sure that you have the updated GMAIL App, give all permissions and keep it logged in with your gmail id which displays your registered name in the meeting.
2. Please check whether your app is working well by having a trial meeting with someone else via Gmail app. If you don’t give all permissions to the app for accessing microphone, you won’t be able to interact with the facilitator and fellow participants. Have a trail Meeting with someone on Google Meet well before the programme to understand the environment. These videos will help you Desktop/Laptop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx_TGpifopo Andoroid Phone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPnJVizqe5c&t=2s iPhone/iPad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-XTMJdWze8
During the trail meeting pl check whether it shows your official name. If it is not showing your official name, please watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5pV8LHPAt4 and change it.
3. CCS Academy will not be responsible if your app/phone/laptop/PC/internet connection/microphone is not alright.
4. You will be receiving an invitation link to join the meeting in this Whatsapp group 15 minutes. Just click on the link and it will open in gmail app. If you use Laptop or Desktop, you may open https://web.whatsapp.com and click on the sent link. It will open in your browser. If you use iphone/ipad, the last part of the meeting link is the meeting code. Please press “Ask to join” button. Facilitator will accept and you would join the meeting.
Ground Rules for the training:
1. Please keep the video on. Facilitator would like to give personal attention to each participant. This is done to ensure that the online training is just like direct training Moreover in the past, non registered participant was also attending the training in the same screen. The registered person did not come in video at all so that we wouldn’t notice it. When we called the person’s name, he would never answer. When we found the truth, we had to cancel that person’s registration. In order to avoid any such thing, we want you on the screen. We want the participants to be fully involved in the training to improve the effectiveness of the training.
2. Facilitator will usually give some time after each topic/section for you ask questions. Except during the time of you asking questions, you should mute your microphone to avoid any noise disturbances. You should unmute when you interact with the facilitator. When you complete talking, please mute it again.
3. Avoid attending phone calls when the training is happening. When the calls come, please cut the call. If possible, please remove the SIM Card if you are using the mobile for the programme.
4. If it is an emergency call, please attend. If using mobile app, it will automatically go to hold mode. Once the call is over, you can rejoin by clicking on the invitation link or by pressing rejoin button.
5. For our PG Diploma course, the invitation to join will not be accepted after 5 minutes of the starting time and absent will be marked. First day is compulsory.
6. We will not be able to send the material again if you miss it. If you change your phone or delete this group, the material may not be available. Please transfer the material pdf to your Gmail or Google Drive or Dropbox.
Material will be sent in the whatsapp group the day before the class. The students may opt to print it. You may transfer it to your google drive or send to your own email id for safe storage of material. If you change your phone or delete the group, the material may not be available. After the programme gets over, candidates should not contact the facilitator to send the material again saying it was missed. Participants can choose to keep the material open in some other device such as laptop or another phone or print the material.
Before almost all the batches, we update the material with new content and re-arrange the chapters based on the feedback given by the earlier batch. That’s why we take time to update the material and send it one day before the programmes.
If you are interested in counselling and have plans to take it up as your career or utilize it in your profession or do it as a service, then this course is for you and we help you to become skilled in counselling.
When you want to take counseling as a career, we request you to be sincere and allot enough time to attend almost all the classes. Yes, we provide videos. If you miss some classes, you can note down the missed topics by calling your batch-mate on the missed day itself and watch the videos for those topics before the next class and ask your doubts in the next class itself. Personal improvement session is also there in which you would meet the facilitator on 1 on 1 basis where you can clarify the doubts personally. (Applicable for PG Diploma and Advanced Skill Diploma only)
If you want to use the personal improvement session to get personal counseling related to your psychological issues, it should be used when you undergo the course or within 1 month from the last class. Please note that this session is intended for the enrolled participant’s personal and professional development and cannot be used for any one else such as a friend or a family member of the participant.
Our training approach is dynamic and responsive to the needs and interests of our participants. We do not strictly adhere to the order of topics as listed in the course material. Instead, we allow the natural flow of discussion to guide our teaching, addressing topics as they arise and when curiosity is piqued. This method ensures that the learning experience remains engaging and effective for everyone involved.
For PG Diploma Courses, 70% attendance is required to appear for viva. 1st day is compulsory for the participants of PG Diploma course.
For all other programmes, 100% attendance is required to receive the completion certificate.
No refund /no change of batch/no adjustment with another programme is possible. Please read https://counselingchennai.com/refund-and-cancellation-policy/ before registration.
There are scenarios where we have told people that seat is not available and they could not join. If anyone cancels at the last minute, we will not be able to fill up that seat as the enquired people would have planned something else for the dates. So it will be a loss for us. That is why we give the option to bring in another eligible participant by the candidate who requested cancellation so that he can get the full money from that new participant.
When people enquire over call and get the details, they are not able to remember the specific details such as date, timing and fee for the course. Since it is just an oral communication, they sometimes get confused with other institutes’ course details. In order to avoid these, we prefer written communication via whatsapp text. When you enquire via whatsapp text, you will be given answers through text messages and webpage links which can be stored as a screenshot and checked any time.
Please enquire whether Indian Educational Certificates are accepted by the authorities in the country where you want to practice and then join our course. If they accept Indian educational qualifications, they would accept our certificates too.
If you are going to study abroad later, please enquire with the Educational Consultants or the university. It is better you do the course which offer in partnership with GLOCAL UNIVERSITY as it is a UGC recognized university.
Sorry, we do not provide any accommodation. We have found the below from google map with good reviews mostly related to our T Nagar office as many courses happen there. The distance is given in the brackets. Please read their reviews and contact them directly for further details. We do not know any of the hotel/ hostel admins personally. Please use your discretion before deciding.
Star Hotels:
- Hotel Benz Park – 4 Star Hotel (3 min by walk) – https://maps.app.goo.gl/DNDwevhM7dq5YTMCA
- Quality Inn Sabari – 3 Star Hotel (5 min by walk) – https://maps.app.goo.gl/SLGh2RvFKdBprsLp9
- The Residency – 4 Star Hotel (6 min by walk) – https://maps.app.goo.gl/ViNZ8dsc3aWdtiyo9
- The Accord Metropolitan – 5 Star Hotel (10 min by walk) – https://maps.app.goo.gl/et2exx6AF13gSEj3A
Budget Hotels: - FabHotel Skyry – Hotel in T Nagar, Chennai (10 min by walk) – https://maps.app.goo.gl/ArheLntkSDxv3MjQ8
- Shilton Dee Cee (4 min by walk) – https://maps.app.goo.gl/9PPPMf7VwddFSFKx9
- Hotel Shri Devi Park (10 min by walk) – https://maps.app.goo.gl/hhsjg2kQhFiREfyG8
- Treebo Trip Majestic Inn (12 min by walk) – https://maps.app.goo.gl/fjJEEcm5XtZ2PGnt7
- OYO Flagship 321 T Nagar (12 min by walk) – https://maps.app.goo.gl/NEqPWHUvNdvxjMnW9
- UPAR HOTELS T Nagar (10 min by walk) – https://maps.app.goo.gl/9PiyvezAmGhmXKAD6
Hostels:
Shri Ladies Hostel (3.5 km)
https://goo.gl/maps/MspMWAPVPMyLVoA3A
St.Thomas Ladies Hostel (2.5 km)
https://goo.gl/maps/8PJAEEydmMCeLT3M7
KAIVALYAM ILLAM FOR WOMEN (2 km)
https://goo.gl/maps/y3WZdj8ju4NyPwQq6
Nellai Ladies Hostel (2.5 km)
https://goo.gl/maps/gjGydFyKuXkVWUu37
Thaai Women’s Hostel and PG (3 km)
https://goo.gl/maps/w4eYvWnr3fuREjKm6
Elegance Stay – Women (2.5 km)
https://goo.gl/maps/6CS2YgqH2VT33iyEA
Ladies Luxury PG (2 km)
https://goo.gl/maps/hj36eeiW45YS2FHz7
Adarsh Manor PG For Women (3.5 km)
https://goo.gl/maps/UpsEPu7hEvjDnvaN6
Vasantham PG – only for girls (3 km)
https://goo.gl/maps/xhuJA3UrtLsazMmbA
Emily’s Womens PG (4 km)
https://goo.gl/maps/DAxK6zJuHHasLc1V6
Sen Amman men’s hostel (3.5 km)
https://goo.gl/maps/pzqGVQ7zU2KBZtct9
Av Castle Mens Pg Accommodation (3.5 km)
https://goo.gl/maps/aHVnhBYbN9tss7QEA
SR Mansion – PG for Men (3.5 km)
https://goo.gl/maps/jyMcM8dpETc8N6WGA
Sri Vinayaga 2000 Men’s Mansion (1.5 km)
https://goo.gl/maps/mvkWXkW11zYyKDA69
Our T. Nagar branch is 900 Sq. Ft. place. It has a wash basin, air conditioners, an inverter, a sanitizer, a tissue box, a projector, a western toilet and a water purifier. You can see the photos and a video from https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16uJMJur4SSHl00dWheD-HvFkp_yTpG_E and under buildings section of Google Location – https://goo.gl/maps/YS8GcRFGMgJ2
Our OMR branch is 850 sq. ft. place. You can see the pictures from this link https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uE4SCwR-cdexSaAnthlyurInC_pP-_eH?usp=sharing check our Google Location photos under buildings section – https://maps.app.goo.gl/DLFEoWKvuVUsMNCF6
Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) is the licensing body for Special Educators, Clinical Psychologists, Rehabilitation Psychologists and few other professionals working for the disabled population which requires rehabilitation. Counsellors and Therapists who are working for normal population are not covered under RCI Act. Hence we did not apply for RCI Recognition for this course.
Source: RTI Response from RCI in 2011 (https://counselingchennai.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/No-RCI-700×1024-1.webp) given below,
No RCI registration needed for psychologists/Counsellors unless they are specifically clinical psychologists or rehabilitation psychologists or rehabilitation counselors who work with mentally and/or physically disabled.
“Further, it is to inform you that disability rehabilitation includes continuum of services like prevention, early identification, early intervention and inclusion of persons with disabilities including persons with mental illness. As informed earlier, clinical psychologists, rehabilitation psychologists and vocational counsellors are among the 16 categories of professionals allocated under the RCI Act. However, school psychologists and educational counselors working for non-disabled persons are beyond the purview of the Council. Similarly, sports psychologists, industrial psychologists, para psychologists, experimental psychologists etc. are also not covered under the RCI Act and therefore do not require registration with RCI. The RCI Act, 1992 & RCI (Amendment) Act, 2000, list of recognized universities/institutions, approved training programmes and other details are available on the RCI website” – Excerpt from RTI Response by RCI.
Medium of Instruction is English. The materials will also be in English. Only if you can understand English clearly, please consider joining the course..
All our courses are related to counselling and psychotherapy. Autism Spectrum, Developmental Delays, Intellectual Disability and Learning Disability are treated by Special Educators. Hence if you want to become a Special Educator, you need to join B.Ed Special Education or Diploma in Special Education in RCI approved Institutes. We do not offer any such course.
Sorry, we do not provide any free demo class. We have added 3 videos done by the facilitator related to counselling in English on our Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@ccschennai. The same are available on our website also. https://counselingchennai.com/youtube-videos/ You can check them.