The Secret Ingredient has deep concern and interest in education and is committed to working for students’ academic and mental wellbeing. To that end, we offer various psychologically informed solutions to help students become self-aware and empathetic human beings with well-rounded personalities. Having a founder with first-hand teaching experience along with team members specially trained in child and adolescent psychology gives us a uniquely broad perspective on issues faced by students and techniques to help them.

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Aptitude Testing & Career Guidance: Based on decades of existing research in vocational guidance and counselling, TSI has handpicked tests for intelligence, aptitude, personality and interest that provide a holistic report of the child’s vocational inclinations. Our counsellors work together with the student, parents and teachers to come up with the best suggestions for his/ her career path ahead.

Counselling: School age children face issues that significantly differ from adults in terms of nature and manifestation. TSI believes that it is equally, if not more, important to address them. With an understanding of children’s developmental stages and behaviours, respect for the child and his/ her views, and an insight into their social reality, counsellors at TSI take the most gentle and sensitive ways to find the roots of their problems, make them feel safe and help them overcome any hurdles.

Art Engagement: Children may find it harder than adults to articulate and express emotions. Our expertise in Art Therapy ensures that they can do so through creative activities enjoyable to them. TSI organizes workshops using art therapy independently as well as in collaboration with schools.

Self Exploration: When it comes to personality, TSI assigns importance to emotional literacy, resilience and self-esteem, and not merely to confidence or public speaking. Through positive interventions, we aim to help build their emotional capacities of empathizing and expressing, inculcate virtues such as humility, responsibility and gratitude, and build skills to withstand failure or peer pressure. Our efforts are towards helping them become sincere and well-informed citizens.