Free
Counselling Service for Carers
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| Our free person-centred counselling service is in collaboration with Moray College which we have recently expanded. It provides a confidential fully supervised and professional support to Carers who may find elsewhere they are faced with long waiting lists or fees they can’t afford. For the college it provides experience for final year students looking for final accreditation. Some continue to volunteer their services after accreditation so as well as new counsellors, some are very experienced. We also provide a venue for the Young Persons Alcohol Counselling service (YPAC) when they have appointments in the area. |
What is Personal Counselling?
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| The aim of counselling is to enable people to work
towards living their lives in a more positive and
satisfying way. The counsellor does not tell you what to do in order to achieve this but will help you to explore any problems in your thoughts, feelings and the way you behave. The counsellor does not present solutions, make judgements or influence your decisions. They are there to work with you and to help you explore the changes you wish to make. Careful listening is the largest part of what all counsellors do. The service offered is therapeutic counselling and the counsellors mainly use the person-centred approach. This means that the counsellors are committed to being genuine in their relationship with you, are accepting of you and your situation and have a wish to understand. The counsellors’ commitment to provide these conditions creates a safe, supportive environment for you to explore your problems and move forward in your life. Only you know what you are feeling. The counselling session is for one hour, private and confidential and is taken at your pace. The number of sessions required varies; our initial agreement is for 12 weeks with a review at the end of that period. |
Is Counselling For Me?
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| We all experience difficulties from time to time. If something is troubling you, it can be worth spending some time thinking about why this may be happening and exploring this or your feelings about it with a counsellor. |
Counselling May Be Of Benefit With The Following:
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| Perhaps you may want to look at the painful feelings following one of the above or any other difficulty: |
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All About The Counsellors
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| The group of counsellors offering this service
comprise both qualified counsellors and final year
participants on a Diploma in Person-Centred Counselling
Course at Moray College. The course itself offers a high
standard of training and demands quality and integrity
of its members who have prior experience of
counselling and related professions. The members of the course are either qualified or mature students who have typically worked in the fields of social work, social care, nursing, education and voluntary counselling agencies. The counsellors are members of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (B.A.C.P.) or Counselling and Psychotherapy in Scotland [C.O.S.C.A], and are subject to their Code of Ethics and Practice and their Complaints Procedure. Supervision is a requirement of the Code of Ethics and allows counsellors to discuss their work in order to look after the clients’ best interests. The regular supervision meetings are also confidential and clients’ names are not used therefore ensuring clients’ identities are protected. Supervision also ensures that the counsellor’s quality and integrity in their relationship with their clients are maintained. |
