Options Guidance and Counseling
Dr. Soniya Golwelkar and Dr. Sameer Golwelkar started their venture in the field of applied psychology in 1998 called Options Guidance and Counseling . A venture floated with the shade of philanthropic interests, Options offers counseling services at par with the best professional practices worldwide. Dr. Sameer and Dr. Soniya have served as psychologists & counselors at various educational institutes including the IIM.
About Us
Dr Sameer Golwelkar is a qualified Mechanical Engineer, an MBA in Finance, a Master's in Philosophy, a relationship counselor, and a psychotherapist for REBT. He has also been awarded a Doctorate in Philosophy. He is a licensed practitioner for Psychometric tools from Consulting Psychologists Press of the USA. He is an associate member of the IACP. He has also been awarded a Doctorate in Philosophy.
Dr Soniya Golwelkar is a qualified Electronics Engineer and a Master’s in Child and Clinical Psychology. She has also been awarded a Doctorate in Psychology. She is a trained and certified Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, a qualified psychometric specialist, and an international affiliate of the American Psychological Association.
Services
In this venture, Options offers guidance and counseling services in the areas of:
Career Mapping for students
Scholastic and non-scholastic parameters are plotted for students and their aptitude, intelligence, and other testing is conducted. This is primarily focused on drafting a career path for an individual and correcting behaviour and other personality parameters, wherever needed. This process assists in subject selection in class X along with educational guidance for future studies is offered. Children from class VIII onwards are suitable for a career mapping session. Dr. Sameer and Dr. Soniya also assist in Branch Selection for Engineering aspirants and the selection of PG courses.
Career Mapping for Professionals
As a person grows, Interests sometimes change and psychological personality plays an important role in their life, personal relationships, and professional growth. We conduct Personality Tests for adults.
Individuals of all ages who are seeking a change of career are invited to explore possibilities.
Child and Adolescent Development
Teenage adjustments, problems and many more personal issues faced by person and family issues like learning difficulties, academic discomforts, issues related to child development, etc are addressed.
Relationship Conflicts
We all thrive for meaningful relationships in our life. One deserves to be happy in his relationship with his own self, partner, parents, children,neighbours, boss, subordinates, colleagues, relative and so on....
Sometimes only good intentions are not sufficient. You need the proper skill to resolve the conflict.
Counseling will help you understand the healthy differences between people, will enhance your communication skills along with problem-solving skills to help heal your relations.
Relationship Strengthening
Value can be added to an existing healthy relationship. Bonding is improved with such sessions and relationships can be enriched with counseling.
Marriage Counseling
Marital conflicts leading to discomfort in the husband-wife relationship are addressed. Couples considering or heading for a separation or divorce through legal channels are offered counseling sessions.
Pre Marital Counselling
Counseling sessions to understand the marital relationship are held with the couple seeking nuptial knots. How to adjust to the new environment remains a challenge for the newlyweds and counseling sessions on this front ease the anxieties. Compatibility checks are also on the cards before committing into a relationship for the educated men and women of this era.
Psychological Problems
Area of discomfort includes depressive tendencies, phobias, fears, anxieties, and other issues are addressed in the counseling sessions.
Corporate Sector
Assistance in recruitment, training, and restructuring are offered to corporate setups. Sessions are conducted to understand and manage stress and realising one’s true self.
Eductaional Institutes
Schools and Colleges are helped to recruit and train the faculty. Students may seek help in mapping the career and orienting themselves.
Psychotherapies (CBT and REBT)
We offer psychotherapy sessions confirming models of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy (REBT) and Logic-Based Therapy (LBT) for anger, anxiety, depression, guilt, obsessive behaviours and so on.
Career Counseling Process
Let us acknowledge the fact that students of Class IXth to XIIth are at a crucial junction of their life, when it comes to taking turns on a career path.
From the perspective of an educationist & counselors, we realize the long-term responsibility of placing the student in an admirable & comfortable position, decades down the time. In light of this long-term vision, the career decision & its mapping becomes an important aspect of development at this junction.
This objective assessment would help students take informed decisions about their career.
The process involves the following steps:
Step 1
Psychometric Testing of students. This would include testing Intelligence, Aptitude, Motor movements, Interest patterns, Adjustments & personality profiles. It takes roughly three hours for the complete testing process.
This can be done Online or Offline in person.
Step 2
An individual counseling session with each student & his parents to address all issues related to career mapping, development & education as a whole. The parents are invited to attend the given time slot with the student for a personal counselling session with the counselors. This would be planned after the testing session. Parents would be handed over a complete report along with the career map & suggestions related to potential pitfalls & scopes for development
Follow-up
A follow-up facility is available free of charge for queries over emails for the next 2 years, based on original reports. If the participant calls for a personal conversation & repeats or follow-up a counselling session in person, the same would be available at a nominal fee.
This process would help the student to
Select Subjects of study in Higher Secondary. Select the field of Study for Undergraduate and Graduate studies
Understand his suitability for levels of education on state, national and international levels.
Shortlist the group of colleges and universities for higher studies.
Chalk out the entrance process for these target places.
Identify a field of work for the next 20 to 30 years of life.
Work on areas where there is a potential for development.
For general/ specific counseling, psychotherapy sessions can be held once a week and usually last for one hour.
We suggest the number of sessions required depending upon the case.
Contact Us
Near Pipliyahana / World cup square,
Indore MP, India