I.M.P.A.C.T. Northeast C.I.C

About us

I.M.P.A.C.T Northeast provides early intervention services and are a bespoke Counselling, Family Support and Training enterprise business which is driven by local and wider community needs. We were initially set up to fill a gap in provision for people who were unable to get support due to not reaching threshold for statuatory services or found that long waiting lists meant that they could not access support when the issue arose. However, with half of lifetime mental illness starting by the age of 14 we wanted to provide support to all ages at the point of need.

We offer a variety of therapeutic services which we provide from our head office in Sunderland as well as within schools and organisations across the North East. These include;
Private 1 to 1 Counseling for children, young people and adults.

Our counselling service is provided for individuals 4+ and uses a mixture of play therapy, talking thereapies and intervention based modalities. The service provided is dependant on the needs of the individual being supported.

Schools and organisation packages

These are provided on a bespoke basis, and tailored to the needs of the specific service. However, can include; counselling, intervention work, drop-ins, workshops, group work, staff and parent workshops and multi-agency working.

Friends resilience groups

Friends programmes use approaches drawn from Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and the Positive psychology movement. They teach participants how to recognise and cope with their feelings and help increase social, emotional and psychological wellbeing alongside increaseing resilience and levels of coping.

Bespoke Workshops and Training

We offer a variety of training programmes and worskhops for individuals, schools or organisations. All our programmes are based on psychoeducation aim to give participants the tools to help themselves and others improve their wellbeing. They are bespoke and tailored to specific needs of the group taking part.

Support Groups

Each group is based around a specific issue and ran by a team of volunteers who have lived experience of mental health.