Counselling

About Our Counselling Service

For those who may be at risk of suicide, or who may be experiencing suicidal thoughts we can offer access to subsidised or low cost counselling in a safe environment that allows you the space where, in partnership with your counsellor, you can explore your feelings and your situation.

Our service can work with up to 5 people at any one time, but there may be a waiting list to access the service. We will always respond to any request for assistance, to establish if we can directly help, or if we can secure help from another service.

We will initially offer you up to 6 sessions (although some people may need less), and then review your situation. We may not be able to offer more sessions, but will ALWAYS discuss next steps with you.

Once we receive a referral we will confirm if we are able to work with you and tell you how long you may have to wait. We will make 4 attempts to contact each referral, usually at different times and days, as we understand people may have other commitments. 

If you don’t attend a planned session with us and don’t let us know, we will usually give people the ‘benefit of the doubt’ on 2 occasions. After that if there is no contact with us, we will close the referral. This allows us to make best use of our limited resources and provide assistance to as many people as possible. 

At all times we will seek to actively engage with you, not just in relation to your counselling, but also about any steps in the planning of further sessions.

We are grateful for the continued support of the Daniel Jones Memorial Fund, in providing support to access counselling services