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Counselling

Suffolk Mind offer two counselling services:

1) The Suffolk Mind Counselling service. You pay for this and can refer yourself to it.
2) The IAPT Counselling service. The NHS pays for this and your GP refers you to it.

Suffolk Mind Partnership Counselling Service
Suffolk Mind Partnership offers an in-house, open access counselling service providing personal and confidential support from trained counsellors.

Our counsellors provide the opportunity for people to talk about day to day difficulties such as relationship and family problems or personal crises and, at the same time, help people to resolve their situations using their own insight and resources.

People can refer themselves to this service. We have consulting rooms across Suffolk, in Bury St Edmunds, Ipswich, Stowmarket, Felixstowe, Newmarket and Saxmundham and also in Thetford, Norfolk. Appointments usually last for 50 to 60 minutes and are offered on a weekly basis.

All information, both given and received during counselling sessions, is strictly confidential within professional boundaries and the law. This will be explained fully at the first session of counselling.

This service is fee paying on a sliding scale system. People on low income or benefits may qualify for the minimum payment.

Details of this service can be obtained by:

• Phoning the Bury St Edmunds office on 01284 764808.
• Emailing counselling@westsuffolkmind.org.uk
• There is also a confidential fax line at 01284 725868.

IAPT GP Referral Counselling Service
This is a free GP Counselling Service to all those patients referred to us direct by their GP. This Brief Therapy service provides personal and confidential support from trained Counsellors.

Our GP Counsellors provide the opportunity for people to talk about their crises, anxieties and depression whilst helping them find ways to resolve their situations using their own insight and resources.

We have consulting rooms across Suffolk. The course is 6 therapy sessions following one assessment session. The sessions last for 50 minutes and are usually offered on a weekly basis. We use the CORE system to help you and your counsellor make the best use of your sessions together and also to help evaluate the effectiveness of our service. Any information both given and received during counselling sessions is strictly confidential within professional boundaries and the law. This will be explained fully at the first session of counselling.

If you feel in need of one-to-one counselling, visit your GP and ask to be referred to IAPT. Following the referral, you will be added to our waiting list and subsequently contacted to arrange mutually convenient appointments.

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