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Email hapsychology@gmail.com
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Phone (040) 2784 7755
Duration: 6 months, Jan 2025 to June 2025
Frequency: Two classes/group meetings per month
Dates: Jan 7th (Tue) onwards, followed by every second and fourth Tuesday of each month from Jan to June 2025
Timings: 4 pm to 6 pm online via zoom
On demand supervision/consultation: Individual clinical supervision/one on one consultation as requested by students (charged separately as per usage)
Building your Counseling Practice: A Counselor/Therapist Consultation, Mentorship & Supervision Program is designed to assist counselors/therapists in the field who are looking for advice and guidance on practical and business aspects of managing their counseling practice. Many counselors feel uncertain or overwhelmed with various aspects of business management in counseling. In addition, they often find that the theory is difficult to practically apply in terms of documentation, record keeping, answering phone calls, queries of potential clients, confidentiality issues, safety issues, etc. If you are looking for guidance on how to establish and grow your counseling practice, then this is the right program for you.
The program will consist of in class group meetings (online) where an experienced professional conducts sessions on a series of important practical and professional aspects of running a counseling/clinical practice. This regular meeting allows a senior psychologist to be a professional advisor like a mentor and a source of information to the mentee, answering questions and addressing their professional concerns. The goal of this innovative program is to encourage new or returning professionals in the field of counseling and psychology to work towards building their own practices. This is done with the necessary hand holding required at first, guiding the participants towards their own independent practice.
The benefit of joining this program is to allow clinicians to tap into the breadth of knowledge of experienced professionals and to learn the steps to build a private practice, build a reputation based on integrity, sound skills and ethical practice.
Format of program: Online via zoom
The program will consist of online group meetings twice a month. Each group meeting will be focused on multiple aspects of practicing psychology. These will include but not be limited to learning about:
Rs. 36000/- inclusive of 18% GST for six months (paid in full in one installment)
Fees can be paid in two installments of Rs. 19000/- each
First installment is due before course begins, Second installment on or before Feb 28th 2024
This program fee covers the in class online meetings for six months, readings, materials and other relevant information that will be shared with the participants.
Participants may choose to schedule paid individual clinical supervision/consulation as frequently as required. Supervision will consist of discussing clinical work (clients seen) and consultation is provided to facilitate professional growth as a therapist. It will be conducted in half hour or one hour slots as scheduled. Participants who choose to have one on one meetings with the supervisor can schedule it as per their need (30 min or 60 min) and will be charged accordingly on a session by session basis as and when it is scheduled.
Dr. Diana Monteiro is the senior psychologist conducting this program. Dr. Monteiro is the Founder-Director of the Hyderabad Academy of Psychology. She obtained her PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Southern Mississippi, USA in 2005 and is a licensed psychologist and health service provider in Tennessee, USA.
Dr. Monteiro returned home to Hyderabad in 2008 and has since kept her US Psychologist license active to stay abreast of current psychological practices and to ensure she is always up to date with psychological science.
When Dr. Monteiro returned to India, she did not have any guidance and found that most professionals in India were unwilling to share their journey with her. From simple things about how to decide how much to charge clients for counseling, to setting up an office, to rules and regulations about counseling- she began her journey from scratch. In 2009, she singlehandedly began The Hyderabad Academy of Psychology, a counseling and training center designed to train students in advanced psychological practice and to enable people in the Hyderabad community to receive professional and ethical counseling services.
Over the last 15 years of practice in India and her earlier practice in the US, Dr. Monteiro has become known for her integrity in the professional practice psychology. She is known for her command of ethics in counseling practice and her clear and sharp thinking which allows her students and mentees to get immediate answers as well as learn how to think about ethical, legal and professional issues in counseling.
Dr. Monteiro is uniquely positioned with experience and skills that cannot be acquired elsewhere as a result of growing her own counseling practice from the ground up, working with corporates providing counseling and training services, working with schools and colleges, starting counseling centers and providing workshops and talks for the general public, etc. Dr. Monteiro is known to be an excellent teacher and trainer and she will be the main mentor for this program.
Bona Colaco is a Clinical Psychologist licensed in India with fourteen years of clinical experience in counseling. She completed her Masters in General Psychology from Osmania University, and M.Phil Clinical Psychology from Sweekaar Academy for Rehabilitation Sciences. She also pursued basic and advanced courses in counseling skills from The Hyderabad Academy of Psychology. In India, she has worked with academic institutions conducting trainings in suicide prevention, stress management, study skills, and has provided individual counseling and psychotherapy. She has also worked at the Hyderabad Academy of Psychology as faculty, supervisor, and counselor .
Bona moved to the U.S. in 2015, where she received her Masters in Counseling at Palo Alto University (PAU), California. She also worked on a Stanford Medicine project at Stanford University, Palo Alto. The project researched internet-based interventions to make mental health services accessible and affordable to college students and to help them deal with anxiety and stress. During, and post Masters, she worked at the Community Health Awareness Council (CHAC), a community mental health agency. It included working at an Elementary school as a school counselor and providing psychotherapy at the in-house clinic, working with families, couples, adolescents, and individual adult clients. She returned to India during the pandemic and is currently working with HAP as a Clinical Psychologist/Supervisor/ faculty member. She provides online counseling/psychotherapy to children, adolescents, adults, and couples.
Anyone who is wanting to learn how to start a private counseling practice (AND has the necessary qualifications for doing so). The qualifications required at a minimum is a Master's degree in Psychology or a closely related field. Those currently enrolled in a Masters degree in Psychology or a related field can join as well.
To join: Complete the registration form by following the link below:
https://forms.gle/4Q5cwrRzLDipFmed7
For More Information, Please Whatsapp 94939-75140 or email hapsychology@gmail.com