Mrs. Salony Priya is a renowned counseling psychologist working in the area of Education Management, Human Development & Training, student & teacher empowerment, parental guidance & comprehensive counseling for nearly 18 years and her interventions have reached out to several educational institutions, corporate and social organizations. She is founder Director of Ummeed Counselling & Consulting services, a multispecialty positive psychology institution based in Calcutta where she empowers, enables and energizes populace with therapies, workshops trainings and individualized sessions. Mrs. Salony Priya is also Trustee of UMEED FOUNDATION an organization that works for underprivileged children in field of mental health.

She is advisor for Mentor, Educational Initiatives, recognized as progressive voice in field of education. She has done more than 1500 training programmes at state education boards, at Administrative Training institutes for civil servants, CBSE schools and ICSC schools on key areas of Life Skills, and positive mental health in more than 18 states of India. She believes in power of positive psychology and feels it has much larger role to play in educational and social psychology. Her interventions in the education sector have been instrumental in developing organizational vision in various institutions, involving management, executives, Heads, teachers and parents, particularly her path breaking work on gender education, sexuality, addiction, aggression, abuse and adolescent health. She is consultant to more than 30 educational institutions & groups and believes and advocates working with all stakeholders.

She has been responsible for planning, developing, implementing, coordinating and managing interventions and programs encompassing all aspects of Human Resource Management in the education sector and has been closely associated with ‘progressive schooling wave’. Her powerful insights and ability to motivate people have made a profound difference in the lives of all who have come in contact with her. Her work not only inspires people to reclaim their power, she also teaches the step by step process to put it into action. With simple, clear techniques she is able to show her clients how make long lasting, progressive changes.

Her commitment, focus, high energy are the qualities that you will experience with each encounter. Her programs challenge you to take a good look at yourself and support you in every step you take towards creating an empowered life, business or community. The One on One counseling sessions, Relationship Building Program and Teen and Young Adult Empowerment Program she offers are absolutely transformational!

She also teaches a wide variety of empowerment workshops, speaks to groups and businesses interested in bettering themselves, and publishes articles on a regular basis. She has been recognized by MENTOR MAGAZINE as a leading voice in education in the country and is on their advisor board.

She has been the contributor to Progressive educators magazine starting the positive psychology humanistic wave.

She has addressed Heads of schools in the AISC Odisha and Chattisgarh chapter in September 2013, invited to address Heads of Army schools at FDRI, Delhi and AISCAP at Vigyan Bhawan.

Changing role of counseling psychologist

For past eighteen years she has been associated as a counseling psychologist, with the progressive schooling set ups. The role of a guidance counsellor has changed drastically during this period and it has evolved as a dynamic, multifaceted support system that caters to varied needs emerging in the school systems.
Mrs. S. Priya has strongly advocated for evolving SCHOOLS AS LEARNING ORGANISATION. Learning organizations are schools where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and creative patterns of thinking are nurtured and where people are continually learning and growing together. For continual improvement to take place, everyone needs to know what is expected of him or her.

Teachers must understand their role in the larger context of the system and be aware of how these roles change as quality improves. There can be no innovation through continuous process improvement without research and no research without adequate trained staff and educated employees. Her workshops and consultancy with school management have addressed these core issues in a very need based model for the school based on its culture, vision and goals.