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Counselling

What is the counselling service?

We are a specialist domestic and sexual violence service offering counselling to women age 16 + who have been affected by domestic violence in a personal relationship.  Through counselling women have the chance to work through issues around domestic and/or sexual violence that might be causing anxiety and holding back their lives.

Counselling provides a space to explore your issues in order to find a more fulfilling way of living. Once things are looked at in counselling and are brought into the open in a safe way they often become more manageable and have less power to negatively influence or hurt.

 Who is it for?

 We work with women who have experienced domestic/sexual abuse now or in the past as children. We offer an assessment session followed by up to 16 free weekly sessions of 50 minutes each.

 Who are the workers? 

The counselling service is run by the Counselling Manager, the Counselling Co-Ordinator and a team of volunteers working in our target boroughs. The counsellors are all volunteers either qualified or in their final year of training. The service offers a valuable placement opportunity to new counsellors providing supervision and training. In turn we can then draw on a diverse and varied pool of counsellors. Several of our counsellors speak community languages and we continually work to expand this group. 

How do I contact the service?

The service is based in Islington and we deliver the services from a variety of bases in Haringey, Islington, Enfield, Barnet and Newham. There is a referral process and an assessment prior to starting with a counsellor. We do endeavour to see women without delay and do operate a waiting list.

For further information please contact 

Phone: 020 7272 0980

To make a referral

Phone: 0808 802 5565