Welcome
to the Gloucestershire Counselling Service, a British Association
for Counselling And Psychotherapy Accredited Service
GCS specialises in providing counselling and training counsellors
to professional standards. GCS was established in1980 to offer
affordable, open-ended, in-depth counselling to those on a
limited income. All clients are assessed at the Centre and
allocation considered carefully. There are now 60 part-time
counsellors and over 220 people use the counselling service
each week. All counselling is regularly supervised on a weekly
basis. Experienced senior staff, seminar leaders, tutors and
supervisors ensure the high standards of training and practice
with which GCS has become associated.
Who is counselling for?
The GCS provides a counselling service to people living in
Gloucestershire. People from all backgrounds and areas of
the community may find counselling helpful at particular times
in their life.
Why people seek counselling?
People seek help with a very wide range of difficulties. They
may be feeling unhappy, anxious, depressed or dissatisfied
with the quality of their relationships or they may be confused
as to why they react as they do to people or to events. Others
may feel unable to cope with the pressures and challenges
of life. For some it may be memories from the past, painful
events in the present or worries about the future that prevent
them enjoying life as they would like.
How counselling can help?
Counselling provides an opportunity to explore problems with
someone not involved in your personal life who is trained
to listen in a non-directive way and to facilitate the person’s
own resources for change and resolution of difficulties. It
aims to assist people to understand how past experience and
current behaviour may be linked and leads to a more creative
self-understanding. It allows space to explore in an individual
or couple setting, thoughts and feelings about oneself and
relationships with others.
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