Counselling Links
Other Sources of Information:
- BACP (British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapy)
- UKAHPP (UK Association of Humanistic Psychology Practitioners)
- UKCP (The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy)
- National Counselling Society (a not for profit counselling professional organisation)
- Sussex Counselling (Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists in Sussex)
Low Cost Counselling Services in Brighton:
- Brighton Women’s Centre (Counselling services for women)
- YMCA (Counselling services for children, young people and parents)
- Mind(Counselling services for people affected by mental health difficulties)
- Brighton & Hove LGBT Switchboard (Individual or Couples Counselling for LGBT clients)
- CRI (Therapeutic and practical services for people affected by substanse misuse, domestic abuse or homelessness)
- Patched Freephone: 0800 085 4450 (Counselling services for families, friends and carers of substance misusers)
- Rise: (Counselling services for women, children and young people living with the effects of domestic abuse)
- Survivors’ Network: (Counselling services for female survivors of rape and sexual abuse and their family)
- Mankind: (Counselling services in Newhaven for male survivors of sexual assault or sexual abuse and their family)
- Federation of Disabled People: (Counselling services for people affected by disability)
- Alternatives Pregnancy Counselling Centre: (Individual or couple counselling services for people facing an unplanned pregnancy)
- Cruse: (Free counselling service and group support for people affected by bereavement)
- Threshold Women’s Counselling Service: (Free to low cost counselling services for women on low income and to women who are refugees and asylum seekers, with interpreters where requested.)
- Samaritans: (Free face to face emotional support for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which could lead to suicide)
- As You Are Centre: (Low-cost counselling and group work for depression, stress and anxiety)
- Rock Clinic: (Low-cost counselling and other psychological, physical and complementary therapies to the community of Brighton, Hove and Sussex)
- 360B Counselling Service: (Affordable Counselling & Psychotherapy for individuals, couple and families)
- New Road Psychotherapy Centre: (Affordable Counselling and Psychotherapy Centre in the heart of Brighton)
National Help Lines:
- Samaritans: 08457 90 90 90 (24 hour helpline to people experiencing despair and emotional distress)
- Childline: 0800 11 11 (24 hour free helpline for children)
- Beating Eating Disorders (Beat): 0845 634 1414 (Helpline for people effected by eating disorders)
- RASASC: 0808 802 9999 (Freephone helpline for survivors of rape and sexual abuse and their supporters)
- SANELINE: 0300 304 7000 (Helpline for people affected by mental health problems)
- Alcoholics Anonymus: 0845 769 7555 (Helpline for people affected by alcohol related problems)
- Cruse Bereavement Care: 0844 477 9400 (Helpline for people affected by bereavement)
- Rights of Women: (Free legal advice for women by women re. abuse, sexual or domestic violence, divorce, lesbian parenting, etc.)
- Women’s Aid: 0808 2000 247 (Free phone 24 hr National Domestic Violence Helpline)
- Talk to Frank: 0300 123 6600 (Information about drugs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week)
- OK Rehab: 0800 326 5559 (International: 0330 333 8188) An over-the-phone assessment to determine if you require addiction treatment. Advice by staff members who are themselves in recovery.
- Helplines Partnership: Online search facility for specialist UK Helplines
Online Information / Self Help:
- www.selfgrowth.com (Online self-help articles about a wide range of personal difficulties)
- www.livinglifetothefull.com (Free onlie self-help course using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) techniques)
- www.llttf.com/free_booklets/panic_book/ (Free onlie self-help booklet for coping with panic attacks)
- http://sam-app.org.uk/ (Free onlie self-help app for your phone to help you understand and manage your anxiety.)
Alternative Therapies:
- Brighton Health and Wellbeing Centre & Hove (One of the first NHS GP practices in the UK truly integrating complementary therapies and healing arts)
- Revitalise Brighton & Hove (Alternative and complementary therapies in Brighton and Hove)
- www.haelan.co.uk (Online information about natural remedies, nutrition and complementary therapies)
- www.chisuk.org.uk (Online Complementary Healthcare Information Service)
- www.healers.co.uk (UK Directory of Healers and Therapists)
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