St. Francis Counsellor Training Institute
Academics
SFCTI’s academic life integrates counselling, psychology, and education to nurture holistic human development. All programs are designed to empower learners with skills to transform their communities with dignity and compassion.
Teachers
Our teachers are dedicated mentors who model love, service, and professional integrity. They guide students using participatory methods that promote growth, responsibility, and genuine human connection.
Classes
Classes at SFCTI are learner-centred, interactive, and grounded in Liberation Education principles. Each session encourages students to build practical skills that uplift individuals, families, schools, and communities.
Events
SFCTI hosts events that enrich mental, social, and spiritual development. These gatherings foster dialogue, community building, and shared commitment to a non-violent, just, and empowered society.
Programs
Our programs in Counselling, Psychology, and Education equip trainees with the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed for meaningful social transformation. Each program is built to strengthen mental health, resilience, and participatory community engagement.
Teaching
Teaching at SFCTI emphasizes compassion, gender sensitivity, and moral responsibility. Educators empower learners through mindful instruction that nurtures dignity, integrity, and lifelong service.
Welcome to St. Francis Counsellor Training Institute (CTI).
We are a community committed to shaping counsellors who are compassionate, reflective, and grounded in the transformative philosophy of Paulo Freire.
At St. Francis CTI, we believe that counselling education must be liberating, humanizing, and rooted in dialogue. Inspired by Freire, we view every learner as a partner in knowledge-active, capable, and empowered to create change. Our training emphasizes critical thinking, empathy, respect, and the deep understanding required to support individuals, families, and communities.
As a director, my commitment is to nurture an environment where students grow into counsellors who bring healing, hope, and dignity wherever they serve.Welcome to St. Francis CTI-Where counsellors are formed to transform lives.
Departments of Learning
Counselling Department
The Counselling Department at SFCTI is dedicated to nurturing compassionate, skilled counsellors who promote healing, dignity, and emotional wellbeing. Rooted in the Institute’s values of love, service, and human development, the department trains students to support individuals, families, schools, and organisations with professional competence.
Education Department
The Education Department develops teachers who combine professional teaching skills with a strong counselling foundation. The department emphasizes child-centred learning, emotional development, gender sensitivity, and liberation-based teaching philosophies.
Mission & Vision
- Integral human development and the universal values of love and service
- Mental health of individuals, families and organisations
- Empowerment of trainees with the requisite knowledge, skills and attitudes which enable them to transform their own lives and the lives of the people with whom they work
- Capacity building in participatory development methods
SFCTI envisages having a non-violent society of dignified and happy people where poverty, ignorance, abuse and injustice are eradicated
school hours
M-F: 8am – 5:00pm
Address
Mbarara City (Uganda)
Phone
+256 774107990,
+256 788644001,
+256 752820267