Counselling Services

Our counseling services are aimed to cater to your needs. Your mental wellness is our priority. These services will help you deal with and address any Tension, Anxiety, Academic Stress, Family issues, Loneliness, Frustration, Low Self-Esteem, lack of concentration, Sleeplessness or  Suicidal thoughts, and more.

 

Our Team

We have a team of competent and qualified counselors who will cater to your specific needs. This facility is completely free and dedicated to the mental wellbeing of the students. We are requesting you to make use of it whenever you need it without any hesitation whatsoever.

Counselling Services

Our counseling services are aimed to cater to your needs. Your mental wellness is our priority. These services will help you deal with and address any Tension, Anxiety, Academic Stress, Family issues, Loneliness, Frustration, Low Self-Esteem, lack of concentration, Sleeplessness or Suicidal thoughts, and more.

We have a team of competent and qualified counselors who will cater to your specific needs. This facility is completely free and dedicated to the mental wellbeing of the students. We are requesting you to make use of it whenever you need it without any hesitation whatsoever.

This Directorate has been providing the counseling services to the Students for the past 13 years. This facility is to help students to deal with their personal problems that affect their education and campus life. it may be fear, anxiety, learning difficulties, self doubts, low self esteem, problems due to comparisons, friendship and relationship issue and habits related issues. The counseling will help them to feel mentally at ease so as to pursue their studies effectively and also have stress free campus life. 

The Directorate is involved in almost all student related activities that help to promote the wellbeing of students by promoting talents at individual and group level. The department is conducts  cultural activities; sports activities in the campus for all disciplines. This is to give an opportunity to express their hidden talents and nurture them. It is also involved in maintaining discipline in the Campus.

The Department of Psychiatry, SRM Hospital, headed by Prof. Dr. M. Thirunavukarasu and guided by Prof. Dr. R. Arul Saravanan is the pivotal centre for mental health care.  With its team of eminent Psychiatrists and young enthusiastic residents who are available in the Hospital 24/7 for addressing any problem related to your Mental Health and Psychological wellbeing, we also offer individualized  counselling, therapy and training for Students and Faculty of SRMIST.

We have also created “Here For You” – the mental health app, which is a reliable, simple and quick solution to answer your worries and queries, conceived by a Psychiatry Postgraduate Dr. Manik Inder Singh, in liaison with students from Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors & Team Envision Aarrush from SRMIST.

The Department of Clinical Psychology, started in the year 2011, is in SRM Hospital, D – Block extension on the 5th floor.  The Department provides mental health services, such as psychological testing to understand the personality, evaluate the levels of intelligence of individuals. It offers psychological interventions like individual and group psychotherapy, supportive psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Solution Focused Behavior therapy (SFBT), Mindfulness Based Therapy, and behavior Therapy to manage anxiety, Sleep problems, Procrastination, depression, relationship problems, academic difficulties, addiction to substances as well as Smartphone and Internet addictions. Positive psychological techniques are also offered to improve self confidence, personality, problem solving and decision making, self-esteem and mental health.

We at SRM believe that there is a triad to a healthy lifestyle. That is "perfect medication, a healthy diet that does not spike one's blood sugar and a moderate, consistent exercise program".  Through a collaboration with doctors and dieticians, the wellness center, gives wellness and fitness routines to clients based on their level of fitness, aliments, and age. The wellness center believes wellness is an act to practice healthy habits on a daily basis, to attain better physical and mental health, and lead to a healthier lifestyle.

The  School of Public Health (SPH) aims to create public health leaders through interdisciplinary education and research. The University Wellness Program (UWP) launched by SPH aims to achieve wellness of all students on campus. We look at factors that affect students’ wellbeing and ways to address them. 

Counsellor's Profiles

Dr Bhasi Sulumaram

Professor & HoD

P. Pangajam

Assistant Professor

Nayanthara.S

Assistant Professor

S.Dinesh

Assistant Professor

Srinivasan Jayaraman

Assistant Professor

Here For You - App (YourDost)

For online counseling, YourDOST offers a platform for students, adults, basically all individuals to seek help anonymously from trained professionals, for all kinds of mental disturbances. With a round-the-clock service, YOURDOST is a platform that encourages you to call or talk at any time with their certified professionals about any and all problems that plague you. YOURDOST offers both video and audio calling sessions for a more comfortable and interactive experience

 

Student Wellness

It’s important that we know that there shall always be people who care for us and love us, and want the best for us. It is essential that we talk to these people, and also seek help from individuals who are non-judgemental and rational. SRM wishes the best for each and every one of its students and hence is offering counseling by trained professionals.
 
 

University Wellness Program

The University Wellness Program (UWP) launched by the School of Public Health aims to achieve wellness for all on campus, through active students and faculty participation. Promoting mental wellbeing of students is an important agenda of UWP. The UWP projects provide an opportunity to understand the factors affecting student’s wellbeing and find ways to help address them.  SPH also conducts awareness campaigns and training programs on key public health issues like ‘Eat right’, ‘Healthy Lifestyle’, Healthy Mind Healthy Body’. 

Students! Please join us help each other. Contact: jennyars@srmist.edu.in 

Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

-Barack Obama

Wellness Center

We at SRM believe that there is a triad to a healthy lifestyle. That is “perfect medication, a healthy diet that does not spike one’s blood sugar and a moderate, consistent exercise program”.  Through a collaboration with doctors and dieticians, the wellness center, gives wellness and fitness routines to clients based on their level of fitness, aliments, and age. The wellness center believes wellness is an act to practice healthy habits on a daily basis, to attain better physical and mental health, and lead to a healthier lifestyle. 

 

Wellness looks at several different aspects of one’s lifestyle. The wellness center aims to work with several departments on campus to provide a holistic and integrated approach to campus health, for both academic and personal growth.

For questions and inquiries regarding the Health and Wellness Framework and Strategy, kindly contact me, Joseph Julian and my E-mail ID is: josephpj@srmist.edu.in

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