All of our services are confidential except if someone is in danger
Offender Counselling
Open Counselling have a scheme running through the Hertfordshire Probation Service, Focusing on counselling work via referrals from the ‘Integrated Offender Team’.
This service covers a range of personal issues that are specifically related to current offending behaviour, including anxiety and depression, low self-esteem, anger, relationship difficulties, abuse, grief and loss, trauma and addiction.
Open Counselling work to help offenders understand how their arrest and conviction have impacted on their life and how to create change.
Difficulties addressed:
- Having to learn to live together again, especially when children are involved
- Financial concerns
- Sexual anxieties
- Worry of re-offending
- Employment issues
- Worries about re-occurring drug or alcohol use
- Losing the independence gained while a partner was in prison
This service can offer offenders the opportunity to talk about how these kinds of issues may be affecting them and their families, offering strategies to help smooth the transition back into community life.
School Counselling:
In addition to Open Counselling’s Agency in Hertfordshire, we can also provide off site counselling.
We provide counsellors to work within the school setting. Open Counselling will guide the school through the process, and provide all the appropriate documentation to the school.
Our Director and lead counsellor provides ‘pro bono’ work, seeing five clients per week for ‘The Harefield Academy’.
For more information and to arrange a meeting to discuss costing etc. please telephone: 01923 510 017 or email cs@opencounselling.com
Open Counselling can provide tailor-made Counselling services to suit your requirements, for further information or to arrange a meeting to discuss this further please telephone: 01923 510 017 or email cs@opencounselling.com
How Many Sessions ?
For some clients very few sessions are needed and change and positive outcomes can happen very quickly. For others, longer term therapy may be desired.
For counselling clients the average number of sessions is around 8-12. But we do have the occasional longer term client where broader work is required. |