Upcoming Events
Counselor Half Hour
Counselors Half Hour, CHH is our weekly webinar where the alumni of the institute of counseling in Nigeria. Our past and current students who are already changing lives in their different fields are the speakers in this weekly webinar. CHH is like a “Sunday-Sunday” medicine for everyone who wants to become the best version of themselves.
Time: 6 pm Every Last Sunday Of The Month
Location: Zoom
Guest Speakers: ICN ALUMNI
Simply click the button below to register and an invitation will be sent to you.
Professional Counseling Training for NGOs
Nongovernmental organizations are the first responders in society and the need to get it right in the area of mental health counseling cannot be overemphasized. From the definition of the problem to psychoanalysis to determine triggers to understanding the application of theories to situations as well as professional application of the right interventions are all necessary skills any NGO requires to deal with psychosocial issues of clients, especially women, and girls.
All these and more are what we are offering NGOs in our upcoming training for FREE, this is part of our CSR to equip responders to be able to professionally help survivors and vulnerable clients.
Time: 9:30 am
Date: 24/06/23
Location: The Institute of Counseling in Nigeria 2A Lalupon Close Ikoyi Lagos.
Simply click the button below to register and an invitation will be sent to you.
Teen Summer Leadership & Mental Health Awareness Program
As an organization saddled with the responsibility of helping society to be better, we organize a yearly summer program for teenagers and young adults between the ages of 13 and 19. This program exposes these young ones to first-hand information on how to be the best version of themselves in this ever-changing world. They are also trained with leadership abilities and vocational skills, in order to be assets and not liabilities to society.
Also, with a focus on the obvious vacuum in the area of proper awareness of sexual and substance abuse in our society, the Institute of counseling has decided to take the bull by the horn by taking the awareness to teenagers. We believe that capturing teenagers and young adults will go a long way in solving these societal ills.
>> 2 weeks: 10am to 2pm
>> Join Saturdays Physical & Creative imagination classes
>> Breakfast & lunch shall be served
>> Possible mental health struggles being faced by teenagers & How to deal with them.
>> Bullying,
>> Self-esteem
>> Peer Pressure
>> Sex Education
>> SGBV & Abuse
>> Making the right career Choice
>> How to develop the right Leadership Skills
>> Behavioural reorientation & its implication
>> Cognitive resetting & its implication
>> One-on-one counseling
>> Group counseling
>> Games & Creative activities
>> Mentoring session
>> Meditation & Mindfulness
>> Self-affirmation (Specially created for the event).
>> Jotter
>> Pen
>> Book
>> 50,000 Naira
Batch 1: 18th July – 30th July
Batch 2: 1st August – 13th August
Batch 3: 15th – 27th August
Breakfast Meeting for School Counselors & Administrators
Professional Clinical Counseling Training For School Teachers/Counselors. Every institution of learning that wants to create and maintain a culture of excellence must pay quality attention to the emotional and psychological needs of students and staff members in order to prevent various factors that can hinder excellence in an academic environment through the work of a professional counselor.
>> Increase the confidence of the students and parents in the skills and professionalism of the counselors.
>> Ensures that children don’t seek wrong counsel outside their peers.
>> Improve the counseling competencies of counselors/teachers in the area of mental health counseling.
>> Ensures that counseling produces the desired result and thereby happy and more productive students.
>> Could even be a means of creating employment for the trainees. etc.
The Institute of Counseling Nigeria. The first Professional Counseling institute was founded in 2010 as a Christian-based, not-for-profit independent educational charity. The passion to help people achieve their dreams of becoming professional counselors birthed this vision; the aim is to fill the vacuum of lack of access to standard education and the inability to acquire a professional certificate in the field of Clinical and Pastoral Counseling and Psychotherapy in Africa.
>> You are required to send a given number of delegates especially the school Counselors, administrators, teachers, and school owners (Not more than 5).
Date: Saturday 11th of February 2023
Time: 9:30 am – 12:00 pm
Venue: The Institute of Counseling in Nigeria
Breakfast Meeting for Church Leaders, Counselors & Workers
The idea for the breakfast meeting was necessitated by the positive feedback and responses from the Guilding light assembly workers after the training on The Mental health impact of covid-19. There is no better time to take mental health awareness and professional counseling seriously among Christian brothers and sisters than now because the mental health impact of Covid-19 on human functionality, if not taken into consideration, could be worse than the pandemic. We recognize the importance of getting it right in the area of counseling as a crucial tool that the church requires to correct the ills in society, and Applying professional skills and proper counseling ethics to Pastoral Counseling will help the church a great deal.
The correlation between the work of ministry and counseling cannot be over-emphasized. The church is the only correcting factor that can save the world from the current negative situation. Because Counseling is not just an act, there is a need to have the required knowledge and skills needed to help people. It is therefore imperative that every church has a counseling ministry being run by professionals who understand how to apply biblical principles to situations through proper pastoral counseling skills.
Biblical counseling is a raft for people caught in a river of emotions and turmoil. However, people must know that such a ministry exists or they will seek help elsewhere if they seek help at all. If such a ministry does not exist in a church, people, like sheep, will wander astray. They will seek to solve their problems without even thinking about consulting scripture. With the blending of Pastoral Counseling & professional Counseling Skills, Members will begin to have more confidence in Counseling and the church.
People run to their spiritual leaders believing they have all the solutions to their problems, this could sometimes result in disappointment as a result of extraordinary expectations. Creating a professional counseling ministry backed with biblical principles, whether a counselor is a pastor, a leader or a member of the church will help people to be more open, knowing that counselors are not perfect and will never have all the answers. This helps in making sure that the counseling session does not end in hopelessness.
Again, People do not want their business discussed with others or talked about on blogs or Facebook. Talking to a professional Counselor gives the assurance the person needs to know that what they say will be kept private between them and the counselor. People have a variety of problems such as alcoholism, pornography, drug addiction, infidelity, unemployment, death of a child, eating disorders, and bankruptcy to name a few. This is serious business. A professional counseling ministry within the church has the opportunity to give sound biblical advice while helping people conform more to the image of Jesus Christ, at the same time, make use of professional Counselling skills, ethics, theories, and therapeutic interventions.
The purpose of putting this program together is to help orientate and brief participants about the need to incorporate professional counseling competence and clinical counseling skills into church counseling and ensures that a given number of church heads possess the basic skill of counseling as this will help in a long way to help members of the ministry in resolving their problem without going to seek help elsewhere.
Within a church context, the pastor’s task is much greater than the counselor’s, which is why the needed skills need to be acquired by ministers to fill this vacuum. It will be a great idea if church members could go to the one who was both a skilled counselor and also the pastor. Someone who was trained in professional pastoral counseling skills, at the same time committed to pastoring church members and is readily available to them in the church.
>> Increase the confidence of the members in the skills and professionalism of the counselors.
>> Ensures that members don’t seek wrong counsel outside the church.
>> Improve the counseling competencies of counselors/workers in the area of pastoral counseling.
>> Ensures that counseling produces the desired result and thereby a happy and more productive congregation.
>> Could even be a means of creating employment for the church members. etc.
The Institute of Counseling Nigeria. The first Professional Counseling institute was founded in 2010 as a Christian-based, not-for-profit independent educational charity. The passion to help people achieve their dreams of becoming professional counselors birthed this vision; the aim is to fill the vacuum of lack of access to standard education and the inability to acquire a professional certificate in the field of Clinical and Pastoral Counseling and Psychotherapy in Africa.
>> You are required to send a given number of delegates such as Pastors, Ministers, Church counselors, Marriage counselors, Sunday school teachers, Youth Leaders, Children pastors, and Church Workers (Not less than 5 and not more than 10).
>> Sessions shall be for 90 minutes, 60 minutes for the briefing, and 30 minutes for Questions & Answers.
>> Sessions shall be divided into three:
– Session 1: 9:30am – 11:00am – Pastors & Ministers
– Session 2: 11:00am – 12:30pm – Church Counselors & Workers
>> Admission is free and breakfast will be served
Date: Saturday 24th of September 2022
Time: 9:30am – 1:00pm
Venue: The Guiding light Assembly Ikoyi Lagos
NOTE: Kindly choose a suitable Saturday out of the two.
Unbutton 10.0
Unbutton is a quarterly 30 days free counseling session put together by the Institute of Counseling as part of our CSR to improve society as a whole. Mental well-being is essential for optimal human functionality and it is not surprising that a lot of people are not functioning optimally because of various mental health challenges they are dealing with on a daily basis.
Sometimes, all you need to do is to talk and get some issues out of your chest. We have more than a hundred professional counselors who are trained in different areas of intervention. We know so many people need help but cannot afford the fee, this is why ICN is making this easy for you to access the service of a professional Counselor at no cost.
Take advantage of this opportunity and unbutton it to unburden, life is worth living and you deserve to be happy.
ICN Quarterly Free Webinar
The world is now a global village and no one in the helping profession can reach their desired potential and audience without leveraging technology. Covid-19 has made the reception of Tele counseling so rapid, that it will be unwise to stay in one own little corner without taking advantage of the internet.
Unfortunately, understanding how to position yourself online required some skilled expertise, beyond your professional counseling skills, you need to be tech-savvy to some extent in order not to lag behind. The good news is that the institute is bringing one of the highest tech compliant gurus of our days to break to help you navigate this crucial aspect of your career.
The seminar is worth $100 per participant but the Institute is giving it out at NO COST! Are you a coach, counselor, therapist, spiritual leader, business executive, motivational speaker, etc, struggling with putting yourself out there for your client to see you? Register now and be a part of this life-changing seminar.
DATE: 25TH JULY, 2022
TOPIC: UNDERSTANDING VIDEO & PHONE COUNSELING
TIME: 2 PM
LOCATION: ZOOM
ATTENDANT IS FREE BUT REGISTRATION IS COMPULSORY!
2021 Victoria Mental Health Scholarship VMHS
VMHS is a bi-annual scholarship based on the need to have more mental health Counselors in Africa, considering the rate of mental health issues in our society.
Twice in a years, certain percentage of the tuition fee are being paid for by VMH foundation to help people who are passionate about the helping profession but are not able to afford the training fee.
Register by filling the form below to be eligible for the May 2021 VMHS.
