Children's Counselling

We offer free counselling to children and young people aged 4 to 19 who are affected by family breakdown.

More and more children each year are involved in family separation and divorce.  For some this can be a fairly short transition period from one family setting to another.  For others it may be a more painful and difficult experience and they may have very mixed feelings about what is happening - feelings perhaps of confusion, fear, anger and guilt. It may not be easy, or even possible, for parents and children to talk freely to one another about these things and it might be helpful for children to have the chance to talk to someone outside the family.

Our Current Service

We can offer children the opportunity to talk to a trained and experienced counsellor about the issues raised by parental separation and divorce. This will always be in a confidential setting with each session lasting about 50 minutes, depending on the child's age.

We aim to provide short-term counselling, with children being seen for 4 sessions following the initial meeting.  We also support a small number of children who require longer term counselling.  The sessions are 'child centred' and younger children may choose to use toys, art materials, books or games to express their feelings. The counselling service is free to families, but limited to 12 hours per week and financed by money raised from Charitable Trusts and other sources.