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The YMCA Bournemouth counselling service offers low cost affordable one to one counselling to the residents of Bournemouth and the surrounding areas.
Counselling is provided with our trained counsellors and can be accessed at two locations in Bournemouth: Winton and Southbourne; there is also an opportunity to access this service remotely.
The YMCA Full Circle counselling service began in the summer of 2015 and has been operating in house for the last 6 years.
The clients who are already accessing support at the YMCA Bournemouth, who are often facing difficult life circumstances or events.
With this in mind, we have recently decided that our counselling service could also benefit the local community and we are excited to announce the opening of the YMCA low-cost counselling service.
To provide support for those dealing with mental health issues or challenging life experiences in our community through offering talking therapy.
To enable those that need help to access help when they need it.
Counselling is a talking therapy.
There are different forms of Counselling and depending on needs or suitability there will usually be a form of counselling which will fit your needs.
Counselling can help with Anxiety, Depression, Eating disorders, Bereavement, Relationship breakdowns, Low self-esteem and many more mental health concerns and life issues not exhaustive.
We currently offer counselling to Children (11+), Young people, and Adults.
This is a weekly face to face, online video, or telephone appointment.
After making a self-referral (via email please see the link below) one of the counselling team will be in contact with you to arrange a counselling assessment.
Once you have been assessed you will be placed with one of our counsellors.
Once assigned a counsellor you will meet weekly for fifty minutes.
The amount of session you need will depend on what you are bringing to counselling.
All counselling is confidential.
We are currently offering face to face appointments in either Winton or Southbourne.
The counselling sessions that I received helped me to make sense of the patterns in my life.
Being guided through it compassionately in a safe space allowed me to see things differently and now my life is changing positively.
I got so much more from this than I ever imagined.
Counselling has made me look at my life from a different perspective.