Counselling
Carers of West Lothian can help you work through your role as an unpaid carer or disabled person. Open to all our adult service users, counselling can be an important tool to protect your wellbeing.
What is Counselling?
Counselling aims to support someone in expressing their thoughts and feelings about what is happening in their life.
By exploring your thoughts and feelings, counselling can help you to understand more about yourself and about the situations in your life.Counselling is not about telling you what you should be doing. It is an opportunity for you to talk about and reflect on what is happening in your life.
You may need counselling when you find yourself in situations where for many reasons you are unable to talk to your family and friends about how you are feeling.
Talking to someone in confidence outside the situation can be extremely helpful.
How could counselling help me?
The first thing a counsellor will do is listen to you and what you have to say about your situation. They will try to understand things from your point of view.
They can then:
Help you explore your feelings and thoughts about your situation
Help you look at how to cope with and manage your feelings
Help you to explore how you might deal with things differently in the future
Who are the counsellors?
The counselling service delivered by CoWL is provided by trainee counsellors. All trainee counsellors are undertaking a minimum of a Diploma in Counselling and have been assessed as being skilled and experienced to a level acceptable by their education establishment to be on placement working with ‘real people’.
Our trainee’s work to the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy Ethical Framework of Good Practice and the COSCA Statement of Ethics and Code of Practice.
In line with good practice, all trainee counsellors receive the adequate level of clinical supervision.
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What happens now?
If you would be interested in receiving counselling, please book a consultation (above) or call our team.
There is a minimum donation request of £5 per counselling session. This allows our charity to continue offering our counselling service to as many people as we can.
Carers of West Lothian is a COSCA Member Organisation (Counselling & Psychotherapy in Scotland) supporting COSCA’s aims and working within COSCA’s Statement of Ethics and Code of Practice. If you’d like to know more about COSCA, click here to visit their website.
You can download a copy of our Counselling Service Standards by clicking here.