Please note referrals for this service are currently closed due to capacity. We hope to reopen referrals later in the year and will update this page when we do.
Parents, carers or guardians with dependents aged up to 18 who are working with a local partner agency/Cluster, and are experiencing mild to moderate mental health issues.
Professional referral from a local partner agency/Cluster.
Someone with a mild to moderate mental health problem will have some symptoms that can make their daily life more difficult to manage than usual. They are generally able to manage everyday functioning but are negatively affected by their emotions/feelings/unhelpful behaviours. They would benefit from therapeutic support in learning how to manage these challenges. The service is not suitable for people in crisis or who have severe or complex mental health problems. Someone in crisis would not be able to manage the difficulties or challenges they face and may need specialist support.
An initial assessment to explore suitability for support followed by up to 12 weeks of one to one counselling support provided by a Counselling Student on placement who is supported and managed by a fully qualified and experienced therapist. The Well Being Wheel will be used during the intervention to help with goal setting and review progress.
As our Rediscover service is proving popular, we are running a waiting list of approximately 3 to 6 months to start sessions, after assessment. This is subject to change and we endeavour to offer counselling in a timely manner.
To help parents, carers and guardians deal with current or past emotional difficulties which impact them and in turn, their children and families.
Parents, carers and guardians can use their sessions to:
All our therapists that work within our counselling services are fully trained and experienced professionals, or supervised students in some instances, and work in accordance with the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP) ethical framework. The team utilise a range of modalities including (but are not limited to): humanistic, psychodynamic, cognitive behavioural, relational, integrative approaches, play and art based approaches.
Read the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists(BACP) ethical framework.
If you are looking for help for mental health support we have compiled a list of organisations that can help support you.
Alternatively, you can access information via Mindwell.
For more information about our counselling and wellbeing services, please email: counselling@barca-leeds.org
Related Impact and Innovation
The Barca-Leeds Reclaim counselling service has launched a mental health toolkit to help people manage and improve their mental health and wellbeing.
