ICHARS Support Foundation is a non-profit arm of ICHARS, Institute of Clinical Hypnosis And Related Sciences, focusing on promoting the mental health CASE – “Bringing about Change through Awareness, Support, and Education.” Our work is based on the belief that by raising public awareness, educating communities, and equipping every person with the right tools, we can foster optimal mental health.
We have weekly Support Groups, namely: The talk it out Support Group, a safe space for people to vent out their emotions, and the Psychologist Support Group, a peer learning space where practitioners from the field of Psychology meet every week and have case discussions, share tips, and techniques with the fellow members of the group.
ICHARS Support Foundation has also initiated “The VisitMHP challenge”, an initiative that focuses on requesting people to seek help for better mental health before it’s too late.
INTERNSHIPS
60 hrs internship/ Eclectic Approach to Psychotherapy:
A free 60-hour (6 weeks) online internship program on conceptual understanding of the eclectic approach to psychotherapy program is offered monthly for psychology students and aspiring practitioners. As a part of this online internship program, the interns understand the concepts of 50+ techniques to address any presenting problems by clients. This is a self-paced internship program with pre-recorded videos and a weekly live Q&A discussion with the lead mentor, the CEO and Founder of ICHARS – Mr.Nitin Shah. 28 interns successfully completed this internship program.
Program – Free online internship to a conceptual understanding of the eclectic approach to psychotherapy
No of interns – 28 interns between the period of 1st January 2024 to 15th February 2024.
Duration – 60-hour internship program (i.e., for six weeks). We have new batches that are commenced during the first week of every month.
VISIT MHP
Visit MHP is an initiative to Spread awareness about the importance of visiting a mental health practitioner even before reaching the stage of disorders and offer Peer Support to Practitioners with free training programs, structured mentorship & a lot more.
Support group Case discussions
We, as an institute, strongly believe that our role as a trainer does not end when the training session ends. Often, practitioners need help with certain clients, and to help our trained professionals on that front, we have case discussion meetings twice every month.
This platform enables our students to get in touch with us, discuss the various cases they have been handling, and clarify the
Topic – Case discussions (doubts and session flow details clarified for coaches & therapists who seek help with their ongoing cases)
Conducted By: Mr. Nitin Shah
Beneficiary – Practicing psychologists and coaches
No of participants – 20 participants
No. of sessions – 1
Date – 9th January 2024
Duration – 1 – 1 & half hours (monthly one session
Webinar
A Webinar is a presentation, lecture, workshop, or seminar that is transmitted over the web using video conferencing software. The main objective of the webinar is to instruct, demonstrate, or educate.
Since Visit MHP is a learning platform where we give opportunities to psychologists to present their knowledge on various topics with fellow practitioners, this monthly webinar is a platform for them to talk on various topics like anxiety, relationship counseling, sleep counseling, fear phobia etc. And impact knowledge on the various ways of dealing with clients who approach them with these kinds of issues.
Topic – Scheduling tasks for mental health professionals
Conducted By: Uma Maheshwari
Beneficiary – Practicing psychologists
No of participants – 15 Participants
No. of sessions – 1 (per month)
Date- 23rd January 2024
Duration – 1.5 hours (monthly one session)
In partnership with CareerNaksha, who serves as our collaborator course providers for career counseling, we host bi-weekly YouTube live sessions.
These sessions take place on both, their platform and the ISF platform, as part of the VisitMHP initiative, every other Wednesday
- Topic – Legal Literacy For Mental Health Professionals
Platform- Youtube Career Naksha
Conducted By: Shivani Yadav
Beneficiary – Practicing psychologists and psychology students
Date- 10th January 2024
Duration – 1 hours - Topic – Breaking the cycle
Platform: ICHARS youtube channel
Conducted By: Ranjit kaur
Beneficiary – Practicing psychologists and psychology students
Date- 24th January 2024
Duration – 1 hours
Project RAINSHINE
Project Rainshine is an initiative by ICHARS Support Foundation which is in collaboration with Healing Dove Foundation.
Project Rainshine- Where we train and mentor staff of NGOs with skills to provide mental health first aid to their beneficiaries and connect them to mental health practitioners (trained by ICHARS) to offer advanced mental health support where required. For more details click here
As a part of this initiative there were a series of online workshops conducted, in the month of January, on mental health and mental well-being.
- Workshop conducted for Kshamata:
Session 1: On 6th January 2024:
Session 2: On 13th January 2024:
Session 3: On 20th January 2024:
Session 4: On 27th January 2024:
Session Conducted by: Jyoti Gujaran & Nidhi Roy
The workshops were well received by the participants and provided them with valuable information and tools to help them manage their work-related stress which were discussed during the session.. The ICHARS Support Foundation is committed to continuing to provide these types of workshops to the members of the Kshamata and other organizations in the future.
Topic: Empowering caregivers certification workshop
Participants: 10 Beneficiary of kshamata
Duration: 16 hrs (each session)
INSTA LIVE
ICHARS Support Foundation (ISF) is a non-profit organization dedicated to creating a holistic system that connects, supports, and enables all stakeholders in the mental health landscape.
The Healing Dove Foundation (HDF) works towards achieving and establishing sustainable strategies that facilitate the psychosocial and economic reformation and rehabilitation of marginalized communities in India and across the world.
To spread awareness about mental health, both organizations jointly started a series of Insta Live, every alternate Saturday at 10 am.
As a part of this initiative, there was a series of “LIVE” conducted, in the month of January, on mental health and mental well-being.
- Live Topic : Bullying/Cyberbullying
Date: 14th January 2024
Time: 10 AM
Host: Nitika
Guest for mental health : Nidhi Pandey
Live platform : HDF - Live Topic : Workplace Mental Health
Date: 28th January 2024
Time: 10 AM
Host: Ranjit Kaur
Guest for mental health : Arsshi Singh
Live platform : ISF