About us
Nottingham Women's Counselling Service / CounsellingXtra is situated in a quiet location in Sherwood Nottingham convenient for car, tram and bus travel and parking.
We provide comfortable, warm and confidential counselling rooms within a secure building designed to create an atmosphere of safety and calmness. Our administration staff, supervisors and counsellors are friendly and approachable and are here to help you through what may be a very difficult time in your life.
It is our policy to see clients as soon as possible to avoid stress and anxiety and our waiting lists are kept to an absolute minimum.
Clients in crisis may be offered an emergency appointment on the same day of calling.
Counselling extra is a low cost counselling psychotherapy service providing support for people regardless of gender, sexuallity, ethnicity, etc. we operate an anti discriminatory practice and welcome any person who requires the services of a well established, highly recommended, ethical, proffessional counselling service.
Training, qualifications & experience
Our service supports twenty counsellors, all of whom are qualified to diploma level and above and are either accredited by the British association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists or are working towards the qualification
We have worked in partnership with The University of Nottingham in developing procedures for monitoring outcomes for clients in order to ensure the maximum possible effective results.
All counsellors are supervised by fully qualified supervisors. The service is also a placement provider for counsellors in training. Counsellors on placement are expected to be in advance training, are clinically supervised, fully insured, abide by the ethical guidelines of the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists, are CRB checked and have ongoing professional development training.
Student counsellors are supported by an experienced management team with over 16 years experience of working in the voluntary sector supporting people to access counselling who would not otherwise do so.
Member organisations *

British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)
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
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Fees are charged on a sliding scale according to family income and range from £15.00 per session (50min) up to £40.00 per session depending upon family income.The sessional charge is decided at the initial assessment by yourself and the assessor.
Couples counselling is charged at forty pounds per session to fifty pounds per session depending on family income.
Fees decided at initial assessment.
When we work
Counselling Service Hours 8am - 8pm Office hours 10am - 4pm immediate response available-minimum waiting time for sessions.
Further information
Counselling service also provides counselling for Males, children, families and couples.
Please visit our web sites. www.counsellingxtra.co.uk and www.nottswomenscounselling.org.uk
We also provide a comprehensive continuing proffessional development program designed to provide counsellors with ongoing support and training.This program includes a certificate/diploma in clinical supervision, details on the web page.
Counsellingxtra also offers an employer assisted program at very competitive rates see web site for details
An introduction to counselling skills is a new innovation for 2014 details of which are soon to be added to the web page.