The COUNSELLING CENTRE provides mental health services to all stakeholders of the Educational Institution, including students, parents and faculty at the School and Degree College level. The vision of the Centre is to provide superior quality of services to our students, parents and teachers towards achieving our goal of overall Positive Mental Health and Inclusion.

The mental health services of the Counselling Centre include a broad spectrum of assessment, prevention, intervention, counselling, consultation, training, referral activities and services. Through these services, the Counselling Centre aims to: ensure a safe and healthy learning environment for all students; prevent and respond to crisis; address students’ social-emotional needs; initial screening and observation of specific children at the time of admission; diagnose and respond to a serious mental health conditions in children.

The Centre aims to maximize inclusive support for students with special needs who are either diagnosed or at risk.  In this regard, the Centre works in partnership with teachers, parents, students, management and external multi-disciplinary professionals towards achieving positive outcomes for all.  Remedial education by the Centre’s Special Educators includes providing individualized basic skills instructions to students who have identified deficiencies in reading, writing and math and designing lesson plans to cater to their individual learning needs with the primary aim of integrating them into mainstream learning.

    KYC – Know Your Counselling Centre

    The Counselling Centre has 8 professionals this academic year; 3 professionally qualified Counsellors/Psychologists and 4 Special Educators and 1 Occupational Therapist, who work under the guidance of Senior Psychiatrist Dr. Harish Shetty.   Parents and Students can contact their Teachers/Coordinators/HM’s/Prinicpals if they wish to get in touch with any of our team members for academic and or/ Behaviour issues. We can also be contacted directly on our Instagram account @smscounselling and facebook account Thecounsellingcentre Bssmsei Powai

     

     

    Dr. Harish Shetty
    Senior Psychiatrist

    Bharti Purswani – Incharge of Counselling Department
    M.A Clinical Psychology
    B.Ed Special Education
    CBT (Beck Institute)

    COUNSELLORS

    Unnati Doshi
    Unnati DoshiCounsellor
    M.A Counseling Psychology
    Adishri Shetty
    Adishri ShettyCounsellor
    M.Sc Wellbeing Psychology
    Foram Shah
    Foram ShahCounsellor
    M.A Clinical Psychology
    Aira Singh
    Aira Singh Counsellor
    M.A Clinical Psychology

    SPECIAL EDUCATORS

     Pallavi Vairagade
    Pallavi Vairagade Special Educator
    M.Sc Biotech, B.ed in special education
    Remya Menon
    Remya MenonSpecial Educator
    M.Sc Human Development M.Ed Special Education
    Kanishka Jain
    Kanishka JainSpecial Educator
    B.Ed Special Education
    Ms. Twinkle Malik
    Ms. Twinkle MalikSpecial Educator
    M.Sc Physics, B.Ed Special Education

    Occupational Therapist

    Dr. Prathana Sunil Utekar
    Dr. Prathana Sunil UtekarOccupational Therapist
    Bachelor of Occupational Therapy