This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About us
Trust Links is an independent charity for mental health, wellbeing and the environment in Essex. We offer counselling sessions.
We’re committed to building stronger communities and transforming lives.
TLC - Trust Links Counselling service offer
- A free initial assessment
- 12 further counselling sessions of 50 minutes (telephone, online, or face-to-face) with either a student counsellor or qualified therapist
- Fees per session are £20 with a student counsellor, £30 with a qualified therapist
Training, qualifications & experience
TLC are a dedicated team of qualified volunteers and qualifying counselling students. We have male and female therapists within the team.
All team members apply for the role, are interviewed and have an induction into the charity and TLC training delivered by Trust Links' Therapeutic Service Lead who monitors and supports the project including completing all TLC Initial Assessments and Allocation. All of our student counsellors have been signed off as Fit to Practice by their training provider and are in regular supervision.
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
£20.00 - £30.00
Free initial in-person or online session
Additional information
As per the Service Agreement that clients sign, repeated non-attendance or non-payment could result in termination of sessions. Clients are able to pay for sessions individually via online banking (invoiced the week following a session), or pay in cash. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer further concessions or free counselling.
When we work
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The latest start time for sessions is 5.30pm (face-to-face), 6.30pm (online and telephone).
Further information
Our face-to-face sessions are facilitated at one of our many therapeutic gardens, Trust Links Westcliff, in the City of Southend-on-Sea.
We have male and female therapists within the team.
