Urgent support & guidance
Your safety and well-being are paramount. Counselling is not a crisis service. If you are experiencing a mental health crisis and immediate risk of harm to yourself or others, please do not hesitate to seek urgent help. Visit your nearest A&E department or call the emergency services on 999.
If you are not at immediate risk but require support and advice, please contact your GP. You can also reach out to these services, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week:
- NHS Helpline: 111
- The Samaritans: 116 123
- NHS Urgent Help for Mental Health: www.nhs.uk
Other resources:
- https://www.mind.org.uk
- https://www.nhs.uk/every-mind-matters
- https://www.adultchildrenofalcoholics.co.uk
- https://www.carerssupport.org.uk
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Specialist areas I can support you with:
Adult Children of Alcoholic/Dysfunctional families (ACAD),
Anxiety,
Bereavement,
Dementia,
Depression,
End of life,
Life transitions,
Managing chronic illness (self and others),
ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS),
Menopause,
Relationships (with self/others/a power greater than ourselves),
Self-confidence,
Spiritual abuse/trauma,
Suicidal thoughts,
Surviving the childcare system,
Trauma/PTSD,
Unpaid carers.
Inspirational quotes:
"To meet the shadow is not to search for darkness. It is to soften towards what has been waiting. To turn slowly & with kindness, toward the places that once learned to hide in order to protect the heart. The shadow is not what is wrong with you. It is what loved you enough to wait." Matt Licata
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” Carl Jung
"Awareness leads to acceptance,
Acceptance takes us to surrender,
Surrender brings power & peace."
Melody Beattie
"Forget transcendence.
Come home.
Be human.
Be fully present in your life.
That's the real 'spiritual practice'.
Jeff Foster