Healthy Mind Counselling Service
Due to the current pandemic, we are currently offering telephone counselling. We are hoping our face-to-face counselling begins again in October/November 2020.
Our easy to access weekly counselling service provides personal and confidential one-to-one support from our counsellors for anyone aged 18+. Counselling offers the space, with an impartial counsellor to explore issues that are presenting in life and are causing difficulties. These could be relationships, family issues, personal crisis, bereavement or other problems you may be dealing with.
Is it for me?
Counselling is a process people seek when they want to change something in their lives or simply explore their thoughts and feelings. A counsellor is not there to tell you what to do – instead they will encourage you to talk about what’s worrying you. Counselling does not come in a cookie-cutter format and each session is generally tailored to the individual.
My life felt like it was in crisis mode, coming to Mind was the calmness I needed. I cannot thank the service enough.
How can counselling help?
- To help you understand yourself better and the way you think.
- Offers you the space and freedom to explore your own thoughts with an unbiased party.
- Can help you understand other people’s point of view better.
Our fees
Please note this is a fee paying service and the cost per session is as follows:
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£45 per session – for those in full-time employment
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£30 per session – for those in part-time employment
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£22 per session – for those in receipt of benefits, full-time students or retired (with one state pension)
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If your counselling sessions are being funded by a third party the fee is £70 per session.
For further information or to self-refer please call 0300 111 6000 or complete our online referral form at the top of this page.
General info
HMC is fully confidential service and operates within the professional boundaries set by the BACP (British Association for Counselling & psychotherapy) and the law.
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2.6 Challenge (8)
Event Date: 26/04/2020
Take part in the 2.6 challenge to support Suffolk Mind. Anyone of any age and ability can take on the 2.6 Challenge, with a host of activities – from walking, running, or cycling 2.6 miles, to juggling for 2.6 minutes, or holding online workouts with 26 friends. The ideas and options are endless! -
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Carl Scott: Lands End to John O’Groats (1)
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Carl Scott will be biking the distance of Lands End to John O’Groats, 839 miles, for Suffolk Mind.
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Cheryl Pethybridge (1)
Event Date: 20/09/2020
Cheryl is taking part in the Brighton Marathon for Suffolk Mind.
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Emily Burrell (1)
Event Date: 23/08/2020
Approximately 1 in 4 people in the UK suffer from mental health problems each year. So I have decided to do a skydive in aid of Suffolk Mind to try and help local people in need of support.
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Fire Walk (44)
Event Date: 26/02/2020
The East of England Co-op are hosting a firewalk to raise money for Suffolk Mind, on Wednesday 26 February 2020 at Ufford Park Hotel in Woodbridge.
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Kelly Porter - Harwich half marathon (1)
Event Date: 05/04/2020
Kelly Porter is taking part in the Harwich half marathon for Suffolk Mind.
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Natasha runs the London Marathon for Suffolk Mind (1)
Event Date: 26/04/2020
Natasha Miles is our first ever Suffolk Mind marathon runner and she's running in memory of her partner, Nick Dinsdale.
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Oliver Southgate (1)
Event Date: 10/05/2020
This year, my new year resolution is to help raise awareness of mental health. So what better way than to raise money for a charity that is also personally very close to me!
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Simone Cotterill sings live (1)
Event Date: 15/05/2020
Simone Cotterill will be singing live on Friday 15th May for Suffolk Mind. -
Suffolk County Council Chairman’s Charity (5)
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We are delighted that the Chairman of the Suffolk County Council, Councillor James Finch, has chosen Suffolk Mind as his charity of the year, helping us in our aim of making Suffolk the best place in the world for talking about and taking care of mental health.
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Suffolk Food Hall (1)
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The team at the Suffolk Food Hall have chosen Suffolk Mind as one of their chosen charities of the year for 2019 and are supporting us with many events and activities throughout the year.
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The MEL Group brightens up the workplace (1)
Event Date: 22/05/2020
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TMJ Interiors was established in 1981, and has become a leader in specialist joinery and the interior fit-out industry. We manufacture and install quality joinery for the commercial, residential and specialist sectors, and we pride ourselves on our highly skilled and dedicated team. This year, we
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