Counseling Certification

To feel for others and to have an insight into the suffering of others is a rare gift. A counselor tries to mitigate this suffering. With increased complications in your life, there are times when you may often feel confused and low. The situation become too much for you when your life gets out of control. Herein arises the need for a counselor, who can help you through these challenges and complications. If you love to interact with people, are able to put in efforts to know more about an individual’s traits, and easily empathise with people, then counseling is the right career path for you. Once you complete counseling courses, you can choose from several job profiles in India. Trained personnel can opt to work in marriage counseling agencies, schools and colleges, old age homes, counseling centers, welfare departments of governments or remain self-employed. In western countries, counselors are held in the same rank as other medical practitioners. Their remunerations are thus higher than that in India. Counselors can opt for practicing abroad in the same fields offering counseling jobs in this country. There are several universities and private institutes offering counseling certification courses. Some of the institutes that offer these courses are:

• All India Institute of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation in Maharashtra
• Annamalai University in Tamil Nadu .
• SNDT Women’s University in Maharashtra .
• University of Madras in Tamil Nadu
• Basaveshwar Engineering College, Karnataka.
• Rani Durgavati Vishwavidyalaya in Madhya Pradesh .
• Regional Institute of Education in Madhya Pradesh
• Regional Institute of Education in Karnataka .
• The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in Gujarat .