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If Serene Hour Counselling & Career Advice Consultancy had to be described, I would say Serene Hour feels, understands, and empathizes with the concerns and worries of every client that reaches out to it.

OUR FOUNDING BELIEF

Everyone needs to reach out to a counsellor/therapist during some season of their life. Sometimes one can also reach out to a counsellor often. The season or reason could be many, some of them being – a major life change that feels unsettling or overwhelming, need for a perspective, need to challenge negative thoughts or behaviours, need to heal trauma, need to help you understand yourselves and to be understood.

OUR MISSION

To create a lasting value in the lives of our clients. You could be someone who’s spirit is mired because you feel helpless or hopeless about your life’s situation. You could be dealing with a personal or professional setback and need to talk about it without feeling judged. You could be going through unhealed and unidentified trauma that is coming in your way of feeling happy.

WHY TAKE THERAPY WITH SERENE HOUR?

Therapy or counselling can help and encourage you to identify, challenge and change troubling thoughts, emotions, and behaviours. Therapy is a safe space where you will feel heard, understood, helped, and healed.

WHY TAKE CAREER COUNSELLING WITH SERENE HOUR?

There are so many children who could do wonders with the right career counselling and guidance at the right time. So many children who as adults wouldn’t reach to the peak of dissatisfaction and distress with their careers only if they had made the right education choices A career and education path must be based on an individual’s aptitude, personality, aspirations, learning abilities, learning styles, learning disabilities or neurodevelopmental disorders (If any). Serene Hour Counselling & Career Advice Consultancy was founded with all these core values at its foundation. I sincerely hope that Serene Hour becomes the guiding stone in your journey. You and I together will work towards helping you reach your therapy, career or education goals.

FOUNDER & PSYCHOLOGIST

Skills & Qualifications

Member of the British Psychological Society, UK | Membership No. – 756547
Masters in Psychology – IGNOU
Masters in Personnel Management – University of Pune.
International Graduate Diploma in Counselling Skills – Banjara Academy (Bangalore) Reg. No. 18IG-101493
Certified Psychometric Assessor – EFPA (European Federation of Psychological Associations) Certificates at Levels 1 & 2: Assistant Test User (ATU/BPS Test Administrator)
Test User Ability (TUA/BPS Level A) & Test User Personality (TUP/BPS Level B) – Psytech International (www.psytech.co.uk) Certified in the use of a range of psychometric tools for selection, development, training and coaching with extensive experience with 15FQ+, MBTI, FIRO-B, and 360 Degree feedback.
Certificate in Depression: A Compassionate View, University of Derby, UK.
Certificate In Understanding Autism, Asperger’s & ADHD – University of Derby, UK.

I believe that I am a warm and empathetic counsellor/therapist and an applied psychology practitioner. I apply the tenets of psychology to the areas of Counselling and Therapy, Education, Industry and Careers.

CAREER COUNSELLING FOR ADULTS

I follow the tenets of psychological observation, application of counselling techniques, and if required psychometric assessments to help clients figure a career or occupation path that is the best suited to them in their current situation in life. The session aims to leave you with insights and perspectives along with a workable course of action.

THERAPY FOR ADULTS

I use a mix of (CBT) Cognitive behavioural therapy (DBT) – Dialectical behaviour therapy, Interpersonal therapy (IPT) and Psychodynamic therapy (PDT) techniques to reach out and connect with people looking for counselling and therapy. To resolve various issues that could include depression, anxiety, marital, relationships & family, emotional loneliness, self-esteem, motivation, stress etc. I give one-on-one sessions as well as group workshops that focus on sex education for women ages 18 years onwards (Ask for our sessions) These sessions focus on education, awareness and debunking unhelpful myths related to sexual health.

PSYCHOLOGY FOR COPORATE‘S

I help organizations, understand their employees, and integrate them with ease into their systems. I support organizations organizing employee engagement programme with workshops and one on one employee counselling sessions and conduct psychometric assessments for employee selection and hiring.

PLAY THERAPY / COUNSELLING FOR CHILDREN

Play therapy is a powerful technique which gives psychologists great insights in understanding children and connecting with them. I used a combination of CBT and play therapy to understand the inner world of children. Play therapy helps me to connect with them and CBT helps me to challenge negative thoughts and behaviours. I specialize in working with children. Group 1 – 3 to 4 years old, Group 2 – 5 to 8years old Group 3 – 9 to 12 years old, Group 4 – teens My other areas of work include conducting ‘parent-child bonding sessions.’ (Ask for child-parent bonding sessions). These sessions focus on connection, communication, fun and discovering each other.

CAREER COUNSELLING FOR CHILDREN

I help children to understand how education works for them, what learning styles best suit them, what kind of career paths are suited to them, by integrating psychometric testing tools and observations based on psychological evaluations.

ARWA ABIZER

OPERATIONS & COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER

I smoothen the operations and I am the creative behind the communications at Serene Hour.I’d be found chugging on coffee, creating and executing branding strategies, simplifying psychological jargons from the founder’s desk into simple messages for our audience and followers, and maintaining the smooth flow of operations at Serene Hour. I am a graduate with an Honor’s degree in Media specializing in Advertising and Public Relations from Middlesex University, UK.

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