What we offer
- A bespoke service for individual schools in terms of the kind of counselling support they may need and any documentation needed in establishing such a service
- Provision of counselling for children, parents or staff
- Full service back up including all consultation on practice, theory or individual cases
- Emergency / crisis assistance
- Group work (Self-esteem)
- Advice/Information resources at “listening posts” in secondary schools
- Good understanding and contacts in multi-agency working for referring on
- Minimal waiting lists
- User-friendly referral systems
- Training input
- Therapeutic consultation for schools, fostering and adoption services, children’s homes and all agencies working for Children’s Services
- Clinical supervision for therapists, counsellors, social workers, and all staff working with children and young people
Our clients:
- Individual primary and secondary schools
- Local Education Authorities.
- Children’s Homes
- Fostering Agencies
- Social Services
- The Children’s Fund
- Education Action Zones
- Excellence Clusters, or for specific projects working with, for example, physically disabled children.
Where we work
For children who need counselling, having to come out of school to go to a clinic or a private counsellor on a regular basis can feel disruptive and present parents with problems of transport, taking time off work, and perhaps feeling a little stigmatised.
Counselling in Schools sees children in their own school. This means they miss a minimum of their lesson-time and activities. We arrange with the school for a suitably private room for the counselling to take place in. We also arrange, with teachers, the most appropriate time for the counselling to occur. Sometimes teachers ask us if the process is upsetting and wonder if the child will need some “time out” after their counselling so they can recover sufficiently before returning to class. Our experience tells us this is not needed very often. In fact, we think that counselling taking place in school helps many children feel more comfortable and able to settle more quickly back into their school activities..
Our counselling work takes place in Kent, Essex, Sussex and Surrey, in primary and secondary schools and other appropriate organisations. Our consultation and training work is available internationally.