Taking time to meet your Individual Needs
Counselling can help with many problems, such as:
- Stress in relation to work, life transitions and specific crises
- Bereavement and loss
- Relationship and family difficulties
- Childhood and adult trauma
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Chronic illnesses eg CFS / ME
- Depression and anxiety
Taking the first step towards Weekly Counselling
If you live locally and want to discuss an issue that you feel may benefit from counselling:
- Telephone us on 01892 863637 to arrange an initial appointment. This will help you to decide if you want to proceed with a full counselling programme, you are under no obligation - it will also help us to evaluate your needs.
- Consultations will normally last 50 minutes and following your first visit and by mutual agreement, a series of weekly appointments will be arranged, either short or long term.
- The cost is £37.50 per session and for those of limited means, we invite you to apply for Care Grant assistance to help defray this cost. Counselling for couples costs £50.00 (per couple) for a 50 minute session.
- There are dedicated, purpose built counselling rooms in St Peters (Outpatients Department) and they are comfortably furnished to provide a reassuring, confidential environment.
- In addition to self-referrals, we invite referrals from the caring professions such as your own GP or Church Minister.
Also available:
- Counselling supervision;
- Training seminars for local counsellors;
- Group work.
Taking the first step towards Residential Counselling
A percentage of Burrswood Hospital beds in individual rooms are set aside exclusively for counselling and stays are normally for 2 weeks to allow for short-term intensive therapy.
- Telephone Admissions on 01892 863818 who will provide you with an admission pack and advise about Care Grants.
- Counselling in this context allows emotionally charged personal stories to surface and to be held safely within our multidisciplinary care team which includes doctors, nurses counsellors, physiotherapists and chaplains.
- Burrswood Residential Counselling can be a powerful boost to ongoing counselling and can work effectively alongside long-term therapy.
- Shared confidentiality is our normal practice and for this we seek informed consent.
- We aim to liaise closely with professionals from the home environment, GP's counsellors etc, so that there is a smooth transition of care.
The Counselling Team
Our experienced, qualified team have an excellent record of care and the lively-skill mix ensures that we are able to meet the personal needs of those seeking counselling in an atmosphere of trust and reassurance.
Burrswood Counselling Service is a member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and the Association of Christian Counselling (ACC). It is bound by their code of ethics, practice and complaints procedure.
Please note that counselling for young people, couples, families and specialist areas, e.g. for mentally handicapped adults, is only available according to current counsellors' training, experience and availability.
