Guidance and Counselling

Mr Thoman Olingo
The Head of Guidance and Counselling
Contact Information
- Phone: 07xxxxxxxxx90
- Email: guidance_counselling@mawegopoly.ac.ke
- Office location: Mawego Polytechnic Main Campus
- Website: www.mawegopoly.ac.ke
Message from Office of Guidance and Counselling
The department offers the following services to the TMNP community:
- HIV/AIDS attitude change training to trainees and staff members
- Achieve new and more relationships with peers
- Achieve masculine or feminine social role
- Accept one’s physique and use the body effectively
- Accept emotional independence from others
- Group and individual counseling sessions held to address alcohol and drug-related issues
- Develop intellectual skills and concepts necessary for civil competence
- Desire and achieve socially responsible behavior.
- Counselling services to individual trainees and staff
- Organize and carry out training on counseling skills for both staff and trainees
- Guidance and counseling services in addressing the management of stress and burn-out.
- The guidance and counseling office observes the guiding principles in counseling at all times.
Why counselling
- Counselling stimulate your personality growth and development and help you more effectively with problems of living with inner conflict and crippling emotions.
- Counselling helps in resolving interpersonal tensions or relating to one another and assists persons whose life pattern are self-defeating and causing unhappiness.
- Counselling provides one with an interactive relationship where one is helped to understand oneself in relation to present and future decisions.
- Counselling consist of a definitely structured permissive relationship whip allows one gain an understanding of oneself to a degree of taking a positive steps in the light of new orientation.
- It also helps in clearing away the entangling and hampering tentacles for one to be what he/she really is and contribute more both to self and others