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How Welfare & Counselling can help

Working with a counsellor may help you to see your problem with greater clarity, get some insight into its origins, and think about how to move forward.

It provides a safe, confidential space to explore any problems you may be experiencing. These include anxiety, stress, loneliness, homesickness, relationship difficulties, loss of confidence, family crisis, sexuality and sexual orientation, abuse, depression, academic problems and identity issues.

Counselling can also help with concerns such as adjusting to university life, dealing with dilemmas, making difficult decisions or choices, and more specific problems such as addictions, self harming and eating disorders.

Whatever your concern, we can offer support and understanding in a non-judgemental, non-critical way. We will respect your values, choices and lifestyle and help explore your feelings, enabling you to find a way forward. Our professionally qualified counselling team is diverse and offers different approaches. This, along with our associate counsellors, enables us to provide a greater range of help.

The counselling service is free and confidential.  All our counsellors abide by their professional bodies ethical framework for good practice in counselling and psychotherapy. We abide by the Data Protection Act.

Welfare & Counselling services

Welfare & Counselling offer:

Single session therapy

From the 19th September this year – we will be launching a new model of counselling called 'single session therapy'.

This is a solution based approach to problems.  The process starts with a self-referral form that you can access on line. This is an extremely valuable tool in allowing you to reflect on the issues concerning you and how you manage them, and for us to help you in the way that best suits you.

The counsellor who receives your questionnaire will see you for a 90 minute ‘therapeutic consultation’ during which you and your counsellor can develop a clearer understanding of your problem and think together about how you might move forward.   This can be accomplished in a single session; many students feel that this is enough to help them get back on track.  We will then send you a follow-up email to see how you are getting on.

If you go on for further individual counselling we will aim to keep this as brief and focused as possible. Studies have shown that brief therapy for a large number of people, particularly those in the student age-group, it is a very effective way of working. 

Go to the self-referral appointment system.

Ongoing counselling

After having a therapeutic consultation some students maybe referred for on-going counselling.  We will aim to keep this as brief and focused as possible. Studies have shown that brief therapy for a large number of people, particularly those in the student age-group, it is a very effective way of working. 

Drop-ins

If you would like to talk to a member of Welfare & Counselling without necessarily registering for a full counselling appointment you may find the regular drop-in sessions that we run useful. These short sessions are ideal if you have a problem and are uncertain as to what the best way forward is for you.  Drop-ins times are listed on the news, workshops and drop-ins page.

Personal and self-development workshops

As part of the Personal, Employability & Academic Skills workshop programme (PEAS), Welfare & Counselling offer a number of workshops on personal development themes such as motivation, stress management and presentation strategies throughout the academic year. These can be booked from two weeks before the event. For a list of workshops taking place this year visit here.

Online multimedia support (CalmYou)

CalmYou is an interactive self-help multi-media inter-active programme, that is available online to all our students. It helps explore and address issues such as anxiety, stress, depression and insomnia. Registration only takes a minute and is free. Once registered, you can return to CalmYou as many times as you wish.