Facing academic, personal challenges?

Student experience many challenges in both their academics and personal lives. Many new and important decisions are made these days. Change is constant, and stress often accompanies these new experiences.
The Office of Directors of Students Services provides a place for students to discuss these multifaceted changes in a private and confidential setting. Counselling helps students cope with various challenges and make sound decisions. Students experiencing serious emotional difficulties or requiring specialized or long-term treatment can receive referrals to professional services where an interactive session between students and professional counsellors can be conducted to share their day-to-day challenges.
IRDP periodically organize counselling workshops at campuses where students get a chance to interact and share their journeys to mentor and guide fellow students who may be going through the same
Counselling services are free of charge. Issues addressed in counselling include but are not restricted to:

• Relationships
• Family issues
• Stress management
• Behavior change
• Financial issues
• Grief (death of loved ones)
• Sexuality and family life planning
• Career guidance and counselling
• Life skills
• Managing peer pressure
• Loss of self-esteem
• Conflict management
• Emotional and psychosocial problems
• Study skills and examination-taking techniques
• Drug and substance

The staff follows strict professional codes of confidentiality. Counselling records are not part of the institute's records