Congratulations and a huge thank you to several trainee counsellors who leave us next month having completed their core training. As a dedicated counselling training college, we regularly host trainee counsellors within our community counselling agency who are in the process of completing their final year of training.
The Workshop provides job seeking advice and career and development support to people aged 18 and over living the Surrey Heath area. Since the launch of our partnership with The Workshop in May, three counsellors from the Mindspace team are now providing regular free counselling to jobseekers in the area. We caught up with The Workshop to find out more about the new partnership and the importance of providing free counselling to jobseekers.
One of our Mindspace counsellors, Joanne, shares her experience of supporting Sarah who sought help to cope with her debilitating anxiety. Both Sarah and Joanne’s names have been changed to protect their privacy.
Exam season can be a particularly stressful time for young people. What can we do to support ourselves when things become too much?
Would you like to practice as a counsellor, either within a counselling organisation or as an independent counsellor with your own practice? We have a few last remaining places on our part-time Level 4 Diploma in Counselling and Level 5 Diploma in Counselling Children & Young People, beginning in September this year.
Loneliness Awareness Week (12-18 June) is organised by the Marmalade Trust, the UK’s leading loneliness charity, and is dedicated to raising awareness of loneliness. Will you join us this Loneliness Awareness by starting a conversation with someone you know about when you’ve felt lonely yourself? Together, we can break the stigma.
This month is Pride Month and we’re celebrating LGBTQ+ communities around the world. Counselling can provide a safe and non-judgemental space for LGBTQ+ people to work through experiences regarding sexuality and gender identity without judgement, often for the first time.
We’re committed to providing affordable community counselling that is LGBTQ+ informed and our counsellors are trained around LGBTQ+ identities and issues.
Trauma is an emotional and psychological response to a distressing event or experience that overwhelms our ability to cope or process what has happened.
Lisa Mathurin is a Trauma-Informed Therapist and Counselling Tutor at Mindspace. We caught up with her to find out more about trauma and the impact it can have on our lives.
Are you a trainee counsellor or an qualified counsellor looking for training in a specific area? We’re introducing a series of single and multiday online CPD workshops covering a variety of topics including: Working with anxiety. depression, grief. gender and sexual diversity, suicidal ideation, risk, self harming behaviours and trauma. For counsellors thinking of practicing as independent counsellors, we also have a workshop on setting up in private practice.
Next week is Mental Health Awareness Week and the official theme is anxiety. Anxiety can be crippling and be triggered by issues that we face every day; financial worries, job insecurity, peer pressure, exam stress, ill health and more. According to the Mental Health Foundation, anxiety is one of the most common health problems we can face. A recent survey carried out by the Foundation about anxiety, stress and hopelessness around personal finances revealed that they felt so anxious that it stopped them from doing the things they want to do some or all the time.
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