The Student Counselling Centre provides counselling help to students who are experiencing emotional or psychological difficulties. It also aims to promote emotional well-being by offering a variety of activities designed to enhance students' coping skills during potentially stressful situations, with an increasing emphasis on using preventative measures.
The Centre offers therapeutic consultations, individual counselling, a drop-in service, a meditation group and workshops. In addition, it provides a variety of training programmes and workshops based within the University.
The Centre holds service accreditation by The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
All the counsellors* are fully qualified and extremely experienced in working with a wide variety of problems. All the core team and most of the sessional workers are either British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) Registered Counsellors or United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UCKP) registered practitioners and abide by their ethical frameworks for practice.
Further information and details of codes of ethical frameworks can be found on the BACP (www.bacp.co.uk/ethical_framework/) or UKCP (www.psychotherapy.org.uk/) websites.
* With the exception of the one or two trainees on placement.