The Foundation’s Business and Commercial Manager, Ruth Hutchinson has been selected to receive an award from the St Albans Charity Cycle Ride in recognition of her fundraising achievements for Rotary charities. Ruth participated in the annual SACCR back in May and will receive the private cup trophy as a thank you for the impressive £721 she raised. She has been...
Where’s Your Head At? is a six week initiative which launched on 14th May 2018 to change health and safety law so it protects mental health in the same way as physical health. Mental Health Foundation England have teamed up with Bauer Media and Natasha Devon MBE, mental health campaigner and Youth MHFA instructor, to launch a petition asking the government to change the...
Financial anxiety is on the increase. Half of Britons fear for their mental health as figures show financial anxiety is reaching alarming levels as individuals struggle to keep debt from spiralling. Following Mental Health Awareness Week in May, research has shown financial anxiety is on the rise as personal debt levels continue to increase throughout the UK across all age...
You shop – Amazon gives! The Foundation has now joined Amazon Smile so that 0.5% of any item purchased goes directly to helping people access low-cost counselling in our centres. Amazon Smile offers exactly the same products and prices as the usual Amazon site. Remember always click smile.amazon.co.uk and choose The Counselling Foundation as your charity and start shopping! Every time...
Recommended listen for our Foundation Certificate students studying Psychodynamic counselling. Psychotherapist Susie Orbach on BBC Radio 4 explores the private relationship between therapist and patient. All of the clients are played by actors, but these are not scripted scenes. Each client profile has been carefully constructed by therapist Susie, director Ian Rickson (former artistic director at the Royal Court, and director of...
We know that Father’s day can be tough if your Dad has died or if you know someone who is missing their father, or is a father grieving for their child. It helps to accept that when grieving there are always going to be challenging times. We share Cruse Bereavement on their tips to provide some much needed support: ...
Father’s Day – Not always a Celebration This Sunday 17 June some of us will be celebrating Father’s Day. For some of us the day can be a painful reminder of loss or estrangement of a family member who is no longer around and part of our lives. When Carolyn Puttnam lost her father, she struggled to find a book...
This week is Carers Week 2018. Supporting others can be mentally and physically exhausting as carers often put their own health and wellbeing last. Stress and depression can affect anyone, but the pressure and expectations of caring can make carers particularly vulnerable. You are a carer if you provide (unpaid) support and care for someone who has an illness, disability, mental...
The exam season is now upon us and since the introduction of GCSEs 30 years ago, they have become a whole lot tougher with old-style assessments replaced with end of year exams which have been designed to be more challenging. With an estimated 20-50% annual increase of university students seeking help for studies-related mental health issues, it’s clear that all...
It was a pleasure to welcome Dr Aaron Balick to The Counselling Foundation on 1 June where he delivered his fascinating one day workshop, Dealing with Digital, exploring the psychology behind our use of social media. The workshop enables our students to think about both their own and a client’s use of digital media to better makes sense of it...
