WILLIAMS INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE

Counseling Cell

VISION

To help the students transform all life challenges into opportunities for maximum academic achievement and optimal personal growth so that in due course of time, they become valuable assets to the society.

MISSION
Promoting the student’s development in all aspects of personal (mental, emotional, social, physical) well-being and academic growth. Enabling the students to gain the maximum benefit from the facilities provided at Williams.

What is counseling?
Counseling is the process of enabling a person so that she/he can make the right choices and decisions in life. Only in some conditions does counseling bring about quick, dramatic change. Usually, it takes some time. The counseling process works by forming of a unique, therapeutic relationship between the counselor and the student.

What is Student Counseling Centre?
The Student Counseling Centre is where professional, confidential counseling service is available to all students of the college.

Counseling may provide a chance to find a new perspective on the problem and often to become more accepting of oneself in the process Counseling is generally offered on a one to one basis, is short-term in nature, is strictly confidential and is provided free of charge.

Who is Eligible for Counseling?
Counseling can help anyone who needs a safe space to vent psychological pain. Counseling can help those who need to change their beliefs, value systems, behavior patterns when these are unfavorably impacting their goals or quality of life. In the college environment, the enhancement of academic performance and well-being on the campus are the ultimate counseling goals. These can be impacted by any issues in the student's family, social or college environment. Help in dealing with these issues will result in student performing better. Any student exhibiting unusual or undesirable behavior or a significant change in behavior should be referred to the counselor.

Why is counseling required in Educational Institutions?
As more and more families are becoming nuclear with both parents working, the growing child/adolescent finds him/herself increasingly isolated. With rapid proliferation of technology, addictions like social media, gaming, and texting are becoming increasingly common. In these conditions, many students lack a sense of direction or purpose which makes them prone to distraction and leads them to indulge in undesirable activities. They are deflected from the primary goal of acquiring academic excellence and skills essential for their upcoming professional life. Transitioning from school to the college environment necessitates adjustment on many counts. Adjusting to the fast paced semester system, the hostel environment, homesickness, lack of language proficiency etc. The student also needs to adapt to the pressures of the academic workload. Techniques like time management, stress management are of significant help in this regard. Many students also face personal/ family related problems which impact motivation level. All these factors indicate the need and importance of college counseling services.

Counseling Cell
Students can avail various types of counseling services at College:

A) ACADEMIC COUNSELING:
The College provides counseling related to academic choices during the admissions process to enable students to decide upon their course of study.

B) CAREER COUNSELING:
The College organizes talks with experts from various fields for the students to learn about prospective careers. We also provide students with career counseling, aided by assessment techniques, in order to help them to take decisions regarding their career.

C) PERSONAL COUNSELING:
The College employs a qualified Counselor who visits the College two times in a week and helps students with their psychological and emotional problems.

The Counseling Cell renders unwavering services in the area of guidance and counseling. Its services have been availed of by a number of students, parents and staff of the college.

Our counsellor has experience in handling issues like interpersonal conflicts (family/ friends), relationship management, anger management, emotional disturbances, depression and value-based conflicts etc.

Below are the members of counseling committee

Sl.No	Name	Designation	Committee
1	Dr. Sridhar D	Principal	Chairman
2	Prof. Shabeena J K	Student Counselor	Member
3	Prof. Dorathy Manjula	Student Counselor	Member
4	Prof. Fatima Farhat S	Student Counselor	Member