Student Counselling

What does “Student Counselling” mean?
Helping individuals face challenges that hinder their growth wherever they are, and maximize the development of their personal potential

What is the intended purpose of student counselling?
To help an individual progress in the direction of integrated development of all aspects of personality.

How can counselling services help me?
The student counselling specialist in the department can provide you with specialized counselling sessions at times you see fit. The role of the specialist is to help you learn how to help yourself in life, understand yourself better, recognize your different potentials, abilities and challenges, develop your ability to adapt and harmonize, and then achieve psychological and academic stability with the new life at the college and then achieve self-realization and mental health.

What are the services of the Student Counselling?

• Individual Sessions: Supporting the student through one-on-one counselling sessions, where students reveal the psychological, social, and academic challenges they face that affect their university life, while ensuring confidentiality and privacy.
• Group counselling: Supporting a group of students who share the same challenge through group sessions, ensuring confidentiality and privacy.
• Programs and Workshops: The department conducts workshops and therapeutic, preventive, and developmental programs to help students develop their skills and themselves throughout the semester.
• Student Support Team: College students who have completed their third year and above. Their main goal is to support and assist new students who are transitioning from school to university life and help them adapt in the university environment and overcome challenges.

What should you expect from student counselling?

• The counselling relationship is based on the principles and the Ethical Principles of Respect for the counsellor and maintaining complete confidentiality of the issues raised by the counsellor in the counselling session. Therefore, the counsellor is committed to not forcing the counsellor to disclose aspects that he may not want to talk about and not to disclose any information about him to any party without his consent.
• The counsellor will be a good listener and have patience for whatever the counsellor expresses in the counselling sessions.
• The counselling relationship is a specialized professional relationship that seeks to achieve specific goals for the counsellor.
• The counselling relationship is based on constructive interaction between the therapist and the counsellor through an atmosphere full of trust, unconditional acceptance, tolerance, and a sense of security, which provides the right atmosphere for the counsellor to talk about the difficulties he/she is experiencing without fear.