About
Academic Counselling
Academic counselling is an opportunity to explore the psychological and contextual factors affecting a student's performance and to develop practical strategies for healthier academic functioning. Sessions are online, confidential, and paced to the person in the room — often a student, and sometimes a parent seeking to understand what is getting in the way.
Support may include understanding barriers to performance, addressing procrastination and avoidance, developing study and organizational strategies, exploring motivation and goal-setting, supporting attention and concentration, and managing performance-related anxiety. It can also help with academic transitions and realistic academic planning.
The aim is not to promise higher grades. It is to identify what is interfering — including emotional and psychological factors — and to build skills and routines that are more sustainable.
Understanding barriers to academic performance
Addressing procrastination and avoidance
Developing effective study and organizational strategies
Exploring motivation and goal-setting
Supporting attention and concentration
Managing performance-related anxiety
Navigating academic transitions
Identifying psychological factors affecting academic functioning
Supporting realistic academic planning
