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Counselling
Anyone in Suffolk who is 18 or over can easily access our counselling service for one-on-one support from one of our counsellors.
Counselling provides you with the opportunity to talk about issues and any challenging emotions you have in a private, secure setting.
In addition to counselling, we offer other forms of therapy – including cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).
What is counselling?
Counselling is a type of talking therapy that provides you with a safe and confidential space where you can talk to someone who won’t judge you.
Our counsellors are impartial and understanding, they will help you explore your thoughts, feelings and behaviours so you can develop a better understanding of yourself and/or others.
Counselling can help with a variety of issues, including:
- Difficult life events, like a bereavement, a relationship breakdown or work related stress
- Difficult emotions like low-self-esteem or anger
- Past or present issues
- Helping you to make sense of things
- Resolve complicated feelings
- Helping you to finds way to change unhelpful patterns
- Helping you to find better ways to cope with your problems
Sometimes people think we should only seek counselling when things go really wrong in our lives, but that isn’t necessarily the case.
At any time in your life, regardless of your past or present, you may benefit from counselling.
Our trained therapists can help you to reflect on what’s happening in your life and stop things from getting worse.
What is CBT?
CBT seeks to address both the thought process and the resulting behaviour by combining cognitive therapy and behavioural therapy.
CBT is a practical therapy that focuses on the present and aims to break down problems into smaller, more manageable issues.
Because it addresses each emotion separately, this therapy is especially beneficial for those with at least three of the following presentations:
- Depression
- Specific phobias
- Panic disorders
- Anxiety
- Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
We can offer up to 20 weeks of counselling, or up to 23 weeks of CBT.
The number of sessions is entirely up to you. Once you are booked in, the appointment time/day is yours until you cancel your sessions.
We are a fee-paying service
Weekly session costs can be found below.
If you want to discuss any of the prices, please get in touch via 0300 111 6000 or email info@suffolkmind.org.uk.
Grant-funded counselling
We occasionally acquire grants that allow us to provide free counselling to some clients. To see if you are eligible, check the list below, or get in touch with us.
Suffolk Mind Counselling Service is an Organisational Member of BACP (British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy). Our membership number is 00106185.
The Professional Standards Authority accredit the professional organisations, including the BACP, UKCP and HGI, which all of our counsellors and psychotherapists are required to be registered with, to ensure that they are properly trained and qualified to practice safely.
Additionally, we are verified and listed in the Counselling Directory.
About our counsellors
The counsellors are volunteers, and are either on a placement working towards their professional counselling qualification or are fully qualified. The counsellors on placement in the service have been approved by their training institution to practise therapeutic counselling.
If you would like to join us as a volunteer counsellor, or through a counsellor placement, please contact us.
Meet our counselling team
Our Bury St Edmunds counsellors
Our Ipswich counsellors
Our Saxmundham counsellors
Our telephone counsellors
Our online counsellors
We value your feedback
If you’d like to let us know your experience of using a Suffolk Mind service, including ways we can improve, please complete this form.
Our team regularly reviews feedback to help us improve the support services that we offer.
