This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About us
We are a counselling centre in the heart of Birmingham. We are dedicated to providing a low cost first class face to face counselling service for adults from Birmingham and the surrounding area, who can travel to meet a counsellor here. We are also able to provide a telephone counselling service. Through counselling, we can assist you with a range of issues and have been helping in this way for over 50 years.
We provide one-to-one counselling to adults (aged 18 and above), either face-to-face, or by telephone, on a wide range of emotional and behavioural problems, including anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, abuse, loss and bereavement, low self-esteem, difficulties in forming or maintaining relationships, anger, guilt, jealousy and procrastination.
Our service can be categorised as a primary care service, providing counselling for problems such as those listed below. Persons struggling with serious or more complex mental health needs (for example, psychosis, anorexia, schizophrenia, chronic alcohol or drug addiction) who require the support of a specialist on that issue, would not be suitable for counselling at this counselling centre.
Training, qualifications & experience
Our counselling service is accredited by the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP).
The Volunteer Counsellors at Carrs Lane Counselling Centre are supervised and managed within CLCC Ltd and work within the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy Ethical Framework. Most of our counsellors are qualified but some are in training and work to the same high standards as qualified counsellors.
Member organisations *
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred).
Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision.
Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training.
All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Areas of counselling we deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
Up to £10.00
Additional information
Carrs Lane Counselling Centre is a registered charity funded by donations. The cost for private counselling sessions in Birmingham can start from £35 upwards. We understand that for many this makes the service inaccessible.
We therefore ask all clients to make a contribution where possible, of £5 per counselling session if unemployed, and £10 per session if employed. If you are able to give more than the minimum contribution, this will greatly help us continue to deliver our much needed service, especially to those who cannot afford the cost of private counselling services elsewhere.
Assessment Consultation Fee: For the first meeting with your allocated counsellor, there is a set consultation fee of £10.00. Thereafter, for each counselling session, we ask you for a donation, as explained above.
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