Your Counselling Service
Guernsey Counselling Service offers general counselling services across a wide spectrum of needs including:
Stress at work or due to life events
Anxiety
Depression
Breakdowns in relationships and the consequences
Isolation
Rejection
No person requesting counselling will be turned away because they cannot afford to pay.
Guernsey Counselling Service is an independent charitable organisation. It relies on donations and charitable gifts to continue to support clients.
Clients will need to pay £15 for their initial consultation, payable before the session.
After that, clients are expected to make a contribution for each session where they are reasonably able to do so. The amount will depend on your means and ability to pay. Apart from supporting the work of Guernsey Counselling Service, enabling it to continue, making a regular payment places a value on the service. To find out more, please read this document.
Appointments
All clients are seen as soon as practically possible after contacting us. The purpose of this initial consultation is to identify the client’s issues, so that we can allocate the most suitable counsellor. At the initial consultation, the basis upon which we work with you is explained, including confidentiality, the cancellation of appointments, and the best times and location for your appointments.
Sometimes we may feel that a client may be better served by another more specialised counselling service and if so, we will discuss this with you. This may arise where there are underlying more complex issues.
Please note: The initial consultation costs £15, payable before the session.
Our counsellors
Safe and confidential.
All our counsellors work to a recognised Code of Ethics. They also receive continuing professional development training. Counsellors are drawn from a variety of backgrounds with different experiences and expertise.
Professional.
Our Counsellors are all volunteers who have undergone several years training and have successfully been awarded the Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling by the Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body, a leading counselling accreditation organisation, which is based in the UK.
On occasions, and where appropriate, clients may be offered a trainee counsellor who is in the final stages of their qualification. As part of their training and before being awarded their Diploma, all counsellors must have completed a minimum number of hours of working with clients.
Supported.
In accordance with the Counselling Code of Ethics, your counsellor is required by their professional body to undertake supervision. Please be aware that during training, our trainees may talk about their work within the context of group supervision, a small group of two or three others, plus a tutor. Although client issues are discussed within supervision, confidentiality is maintained, and your identity will not be revealed.
This process enables a counsellor to share with an experienced practitioner, who is trained as a supervisor, issues that have been identified in the counselling room on a confidential and no names basis. This operates for the benefit of clients and also maintains the wellbeing and objectivity of our counsellors.
