Lewes Low Cost Counselling Service
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About us
We are a not-for-profit service available to all members of the community in the Lewes area on a low income. Our mission is to provide affordable, good quality counselling. We believe that everyone who would like to have counselling should be able to access it.
We aim to provide a confidential and safe therapeutic space where clients who have emotional and psychological issues affecting their lives can explore them openly and are empowered to take control.
The duration of the work can be short medium or long term according to the needs of the client. In committing to a term of counselling we ask that clients are consistent in attending sessions unless unforeseen circumstances prevent them from attending.
We provide individual counselling for adults over 18 years old. We work in accordance with the Ethical Frameworks of our professional counselling organisations.
We are an independent organisation without regular external funding.
If you would like to register your interest in our service, please complete our Client Information From (https://forms.gle/RsV1LoidvgA6jo3k6) and we will be in touch with you as soon as possible.
Training, qualifications & experience
Counsellors at Lewes Cost Counsellor have a range of experience and come from a variety of modalities including integrative, humanistic, person centred and transactional analysis. The services offers placements for students from local training providers including Brighton University and Link Centre, Plumpton/Crowborough.
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
Fees
£5.00 - £25.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Our sliding scale is £5 to £25.
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Further information
SESSIONS
Assuming you are eligible for our service (see below) you will offered weekly sessions with a counsellor, who will work with you on a range of issues. Where you state a preference for working with a male or female counsellor this will be accommodated. Some counsellors may have knowledge or experience in a specific area. If possible your needs could be matched with their specialised experience. However, all of our counsellors have a breadth of knowledge and experience and are able to work with a range of issues. You will be offered fifty-minute weekly sessions, which are reviewed after six weeks. and you are encouraged to commit to this time period. Once the six weeks are over, further work with a counsellor can be short, medium or long- term depending on what you need.
MATCHING YOU WITH A COUNSELLOR
Contact us by email (lowcostlewes@hushmail.com), by telephone (07445 509825), or by filling out our client information form (https://forms.gle/RsV1LoidvgA6jo3k6). Once we know what days and times you can manage we will then match you with a counsellor who has vacant slots at the time. If the counsellor is a trainee then we will tell you. Your preference for a male or female counsellor will also be taken into consideration. We do take into account particular issues where we can, and these can be discussed; however generally taking a vacant slot is recommended. All of our counsellors have very broad counselling knowledge. There is generally a short waiting list, but if you are able to be flexible around days and times that will help.
AM I ELIGIBLE?
Our service is committed to providing affordable counselling to people who cannot otherwise afford private counselling. (This is typically £45 + per session). We aim to offer a service to people who have low income, are on benefits, or are otherwise in difficult financial circumstances. There are many excellent private counsellors in our area and some will offer lower fees.
We are a small charity and must use our resources of counsellors and counselling space to best effect therefore , so we need to have a conversation with you about money. We understand that life is complicated and that merely ticking a band of annual income may be misleading. We have a series of questions therefore that will help us decide together if you are eligible.
Information about you will be used only for the purpose for which it is collected; that is in order to decide if we can offer you a service.
CONFIDENTIALITY
Confidentiality is at the core of counselling. There needs to be safety and trust between counsellor and client for successful therapy. All our counsellors will keep your issues confidential within certain limitations. All counsellors have supervision. This is intended to help the counsellor help you, but the supervisor will not have any identifying details about you. Exceptions to confidentiality are generally related to risks to yourself or others. There may also be exceptional legal requirements. You will have a chance to discuss these matters with your counsellor at the beginning of counselling because the law is complex and the ethics equally so. There might be other rare circumstances under which we might need to break your confidentiality; these will also be discussed at your first session.
GET IN TOUCH
If you would like to register your interest in our service, please complete our Client Information From (https://forms.gle/RsV1LoidvgA6jo3k6) and we will be in touch with you as soon as possible.
