Counselling Service

Please note our Christmas closure dates: LAST WORKING DAY WILL BE Friday 20th December and will be RETURNING TO THE OFFICE ON Monday 6th January 2025.

What is Counselling?

Counselling is an opportunity to talk confidentially to a trained helper who will listen without judgement and help you to gain a deeper understanding of your behaviours, thoughts and feelings. By doing this a lot of people find they begin to make sense of things and to feel better.

Counsellors don’t not tell you what to do, but work with you to reflect on whatever you are finding difficult and help you to find a way forward.

Our Service

Our volunteer counsellors are here to help you through difficulties in your life including anxiety, depression, bereavement and relationship difficulties. We are a BACP accredited service and our counsellors include students at an advanced stage of their training in integrative, psychodynamic and person-centred counselling approaches.

We offer 20 weekly counselling sessions. These last 50 minutes and can be held at times during the week that suit you. Counselling is delivered face to face at our counselling rooms in West Norwood. We have a very limited number of spaces for Zoom or telephone counselling for those unable to work face to face but there can be a long wait for these. For those looking specifically for remote counselling we would advise contacting local low-cost counselling service One Vision Counselling.

We are able to offer counselling to those aged over 18 who live in Lambeth or our surrounding boroughs.

How to access counselling

We have currently reached full capacity; therefore we are temporarily suspending all
applications for counselling.

Please keep checking this space for updates. Thank you for your understanding.

Our Wellbeing Services and resources are still running - please follow the links below https://centre70.org.uk/counselling/wellbeing-service/
https://centre70.org.uk/counselling/wellbeing-resources/

We also have a number of services that maybe useful to you
here https://centre70.org.uk/useful-contacts/

Client Feedback

"I felt listened to and understood in a counselling situation I could relax in, rely on, and start to understand my problems and how to tackle them."

"I would especially like to thank my counsellor. He listened, provided perspective, encouraged me to talk and helped me better understand myself and my issues. He was a wonderful facilitator of the start of my journey back to confidence and mental good health."

"I have had a very positive experience. I found my counsellor to be a very skilful and understanding person. They allowed me space and time, which I think was the right approach for me. I’m in a much more positive position in my life now."

"My counsellor was very supportive and helped me to see things from another point of view. I left my sessions feeling a lot more positive about the future."