Geraldine Franciscus
Geraldine Franciscus joined Cornerstone Christian College
in 2001 as a lecturer in the Psychology department. She
completed her Masters in Counselling Psychology, with a
thesis in the area of Child Sexual Abuse disclosure,
exploring teachers’ attitudes and responses to disclosure.
Prior to teaching at Cornerstone she worked at the
Institute for Child and Family Development (UWC) on the
Child Protective Services programme as an Administrator
and Trainer, and completed an internship at the Institute
for Counselling (UWC). Her training includes a Higher
diploma in Education.
She has been involved in training lay counsellors and
running psycho-educational workshops in communities. She
has a particular interest in the Solution Focussed Brief
Counselling Approach and has been involved in the training
of Health Department mental healthcare workers,
occupational therapists, psychiatric nurses and social
workers in this approach.
Geraldine has been involved in developing student
counselling services, providing counselling services,
referrals and emotional support to students. She is
passionate about community upliftment especially in the
area of emotional well-being.
Since joining the college Geraldine has led several
student teams on short-term mission weeks and community
service initiatives in Thailand (OMF), Malawi (World
Vision) Mozambique (Healing Wings Drug Rehab) and with
local churches and NGO’s.
She also supervises many of the final-year psychology
students in their counselling fieldwork in communities and
schools, which forms such a key part of our programme in
the psychology department.
Another area of interest for Geraldine is that of
“Christians and depression” and she has presented talks on
radio and at conferences on the topic.
Geraldine is married to Mervyn and they are both involved
in their local church as home cell leaders. They have also
been involved in the development and training of youth
leaders and providing counselling. They enjoy the outdoors
and motor biking across the country.
