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

The founding belief of Serene Hour is that everyone needs to reach out to a counsellor/therapist during some season of their life and 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. Which makes our mission to create a lasting value in the lives of our clients, become much dearer to us.

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

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. I hope you and I together would work towards helping your reach your therapy, career, or education goals.

ABOUT Sherene Aftab Chaz

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.

To simplify,

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 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. I help children understand themselves and help their parents understand and connect with their children by using counselling, psychometric testing, and CBT/DBT/IPT/PDT techniques.

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.

Skills & Qualifications

  • 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.