Upcoming Events
The Institute organises different events from time to time to engage, train, sensitise and inform individuals, professionals and organisations on Understanding Mental Health Counseling. Most of our events are free and professionally designed. Kindly scroll down through this page to read about the event of your choice and click the button underneath to complete your registration.
SCHOLARSHIP MONTH!
If finance has always been your challenge, now you can take this opportunity to begin your journey of discovering yourself to discover others.
We are excited to walk you through this journey of becoming a professional counselor. The journey just got easier as we present the VMHF Scholarship program sponsored by The Victoria Mental Health Foundation ONLY FOR NOVEMBER 2024 STUDENTS.
Terms and conditions are applied, and you can start by filling out the enrollment form below.
Unbutton 17.0
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.
Annual Professional Counselors & Therapists Conference
The Annual Professional Counselors & Therapists Conference is a professional event packed with amazing networking opportunities, cutting-edge insights, and career-boosting sessions. The conference is a yearly rejuvenating initiative, dedicated to helping counselors, therapists, psychotherapists, and everyone in the helping profession grow in professional development, personal wholeness, healthy relationships, counseling effectiveness, and professional networking among like-minded.
The Conference offers a rare and valuable venue for practitioners to Network, and seek healthy refuge from the fast-paced lifestyles prevalent in contemporary society. At these relaxing and empowering retreats, counselors can nourish and revitalize bodies, minds, and psyches away from work, to attain or regain high levels of personal and professional wellness. It also offers opportunities for continuous professional development with enriching and educative conferences.
We shall be having trailblazers in the field of mental health and helping professionals from all over the world to lead our panels and speaking sessions. They shall be talking taking us through a professional ride on all the latest innovations, theories, interventions, and developments in the field of counseling and psychotherapy.
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 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 9th of February 2024
Time: 9:30 am – 12:00 pm
Venue: The Institute of Counseling in Nigeria
Professional Counseling Training for NGOs
Non-governmental 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: 22/06/24
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 Church Leaders, Counselors & Workers
The correlation between the work of ministry and counseling cannot be over-emphasized. 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 practical demonstration, and 30 minutes for Questions & Answers.
>> Admission is free and breakfast will be served
Date: Saturday 14th of September 2024
Time: 9:30am – 1:00pm
Venue: The Guiding light Assembly Ikoyi Lagos
NOTE: Kindly click below to register
