Burton & District Mind Direct services provide counselling independently through our Low Cost Counselling service.
The Low Cost counselling is part subsidised through a small fund which is why you will be asked to contribute per session based on your salary as below, with an upfront deposit of 1 session.
The rest of the costs to our charity are met through donations and community fundraising. Availability is dependent on funding available.
- Salary scaling
- Welfare benefits or pension credit: £15 per session
- £19,999.99 or below: £15 per session
- £20,000 to £29,999.99: £25 per session
- £30,000 or over: £55 per session
What is Counselling?
There are many types of counselling but all aim to:
- Give you a safe and secure space to talk to someone who won’t judge you.
- Help you make sense of things to understand yourself better.
- Help you resolve complicated feelings or find ways to live with them.
- Maintain your confidentiality (unless you disclose you are being abused and it becomes a matter of safeguarding). All sessions are one-to-one.
- Help you recognise unhelpful patterns in the way you think or act and find ways to change them (if you want to).
Counsellors will not
- Refer you to other services without your consent.
- Give you advice or tell you what to do.
- They will keep professional boundaries and won’t meet with you socially.
At Burton & District Mind, most of our counsellors practice Integrative Counselling, which means they will bring a range of psychological practices into your counselling sessions.
All of our counsellors are fully qualified and experienced with ongoing professional development and receive regular clinical supervision. Most of our counsellors are registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and those that aren’t are registered by other professional bodies. You can request details upon allocation.
To arrange your Free assessment, please either:
Complete the online form using the ‘Register’ button here
Following an assessment, you will then be placed on a small waiting list to see one of our counsellors.
The assessment is to take down the necessarydetails regarding suitability and goals of therapy and to help match you with the most appropriate counsellor.
Once allocated the counsellor will contact you to arrange your sessions matching your availability as discussed on assessment.
The sessions available are face to face or remote via Telephone and Video.
For counselling to be beneficial it is important to attend regular weekly appointments.
If you are unable to attend an arranged appointment it is essential that you give us as much notice as possible.
A message can be left at any time on our voicemail facility.
If you fail to cancel in good time you may lose that session and if you miss two appointments without contacting us we will assume that you no longer wish to continue with the sessions.
