About us
Life Changes Counselling is a community-based counselling charity offering counselling to adults (18+) in Southampton and the surrounding areas. We are a general service working with clients experiencing a wide range of issues, including depression, anxiety, bereavement, relationship, abuse, trauma, stress, financial, self-esteem, self-harm, panic, sexuality, mental health, gender, and more.
Through counselling, you will have the opportunity to gain more insight into yourself, your situation and the way you relate to others. You will be able to explore different ways of looking at your life and the choices you make. Your counsellor will help you in this, and in your move towards making your own decisions, and perhaps taking more control over your own life. He/she will support you, but will not judge you, give you advice, or tell you how to lead your life. Counselling is not a treatment that you undergo, but a process in which you take part.
Training, qualifications & experience
Counselling is delivered by volunteers who are experienced qualified counsellors and counsellors in the final stages of their training. All our currently active counsellors have undertaken additional training to work safely and ethically with clients remotely. All our counsellors receive fortnightly clinical supervision to help them work safely and effectively with clients.
All our volunteers are members of the BACP/UKCP/NCS professional bodies and Life Changes Counselling is an organisational member of the BACP.
Some of our counsellors have undertaken our internal training to work with victims of domestic abuse.
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
£35.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Life Changes Counselling is a charity. In order to keep Life Changes running, we ask all clients to make a donation for each counselling session.
We ask for a donation of £35 per session.
Concessionary rates may be available from time to time as we MAY have grant funding for a limited number of low income clients.
The Counselling Coordinator will discuss and agree this with you on the first point of contact.
We offer a free initial phone consultation for all clients.
When we work
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Further information
We are a short-term service, offering 6 sessions as standard. If you and your counsellor think it will be useful, you may be offered further sessions. Additional sessions may be offered at referral to clients presenting with domestic abuse issues.
Sessions are 50 minutes long and take place weekly. Daytime and evening appointments are available.
We have recently set up new rooms in Southampton and have plenty of face-to-face sessions available across the week Mon to Sat, morning, afternoons and evenings.
