Counselor

Counseling Psychology is a specialty within professional psychology that maintains a focus on facilitating personal and interpersonal functioning across the life span. The specialty pays particular attention to emotional, social, vocational, educational, health-related, developmental and organizational concerns.
The requirements to become a licensed psychologist are:
Clear the 10+2 exam preferably with psychology as one of the subjects.
Complete a Bachelor (BA or BS) in Psychology degree (the curriculum of which focuses on personality development, psychotherapy, stress management and neuro-psychology).
Specialization at the postgraduate level, where one can get an MA or MSc in psychology, social work or counseling.
Further specialization at the doctoral level is available as well via PhD or M.Phil.

Counselling is: The process that occurs when a client and counsellor set aside time in order to explore difficulties which may include the stressful or emotional feelings of the client.
There is a big difference between a professional counsellor and a person who uses some counselling skills as part of their role, for example their role as a friend or colleague.
Counselling is Not:
1) Giving advice.
2) Judgemental.
3) Attempting to sort out the problems of the client.
4) Expecting or encouraging a client to behave in a way in which the counsellor may have behaved when confronted with a similar problem in their own life.
5) Getting emotionally involved with the client.
Looking at a client's problems from your own perspective, based on your own value system.
So, if you have these skills - Go for it. All the best.