counselling Services
Counselling Care (CC) is a service that offers you a space to explore difficulties you may be having in your personal life. We specialise in five areas:
- Supporting bereaved children »
- Supporting bereaved parents »
- Helping children build self-esteem »
- Supporting those experiencing post-traumatic stress »
- Educational support and training »
Supporting bereaved children
Children experience grief just as much as adults. It can be caused by a variety of separation experiences. Children tend to move in and out of their grief. This means that adults can often fail to relate the child’s behaviour with their loss.
Children can find that they are having to handle powerful emotions, often for the first time. They have to keep on thinking through their loss as they progress through physical and emotional development into adulthood. Supporting bereaved children can also be challenging, especially if the caregiver is also having to handle their own grief.
CC offers individual or group support to children of all ages who have been bereaved. This is offered in schools, children’s homes and in appropriate counselling rooms. CC follows the guidelines of the Childhood Bereavement Network.
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Supporting bereaved parents
When parents experience the death of a baby, child or young adult they can find that their world is turned upside down. The world seems to move on while the parent still has many issues to resolve. It can seem unbearable for a parent to have tasted the bond of love and affection only to lose them before they reach adulthood.
CC offers short and long term support to parents. This might be when the child is terminally ill, soon after death or months and years later.
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Helping children build self-esteem
CC offers a programme of support to individual children or in group work, helping to build confidence and self-esteem.
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Supporting those experiencing post-traumatic stress
CC offers counselling and support both to individuals and organisations on copying with stress, particularly after traumatic events.
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Educational support and training
CC provides workshops and short training courses for school teachers, youth workers, Connexions workers, counsellors and care workers. Support is also offered to assist schools in producing bereavement or disaster policies.
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