Counselling (Worthing)
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Worthing College Counselling Service is open to all staff and students registered in the Chichester College Group. This is a free and confidential service.
.We offer a safe environment without judgement, to express feelings around any topic. We aim to help support individuals in their own journey, to help promote growth, personal progression and individual success.
Location
Worthing College, Health and Wellbeing Centre, Room G100
Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays
All sessions are offered by appointment only .
To contact the counsellor email:
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Counselling is a safe space to explore any difficult emotions, your worries, thoughts, anxieties, and feelings of distress or when facing any difficult decisions that you are trying to make sense of and seek some resolution for. Counselling can also help you gain an understanding of yourself in relation to others and that may then help you to form better relationships.
Counsellors work with a wide range of issues that impact young people and adults. Below are just some of the difficulties you may want to talk about with your counsellor.
- Anxiety and panic disorders
- Low self-esteem or confidence
- Bereavement and loss
- Bullying and social pressures
- Gender identity
- Sexual identity
- Low mood and depression
- Relationships
- Understanding anger
- Harming behaviours
- Miscarriage and stillbirth
- Suicidal thoughts
- Life changes and transitions
- Health worries
How it works
Due to the coronavirus we are currently offering remote counselling via Microsoft Teams and telephone. We understand that this might not be a suitable option, in which case please contact the counsellor by email so we can explore other means of support.
If you decide that you would like counselling remotely, email counselling@worthing.ac.uk to request a self-referral form. Once you have completed and returned your referral form, you will be offered an initial appointment. The initial appointment is an opportunity for us to work together so you and the counsellor can understand more about the current difficulties you are facing as well as your goals for counselling.
Our Counsellors
Counselling is provided 1-to-1 by a qualified and experienced counsellor. Our counselling service works to the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP ethical framework, 2018
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Supporting YP Mental Health, for families
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When you're not ready to talk to someone, self- help books can offer information and skills to enable management.
Self help books and guides are available from our campus library.
Examples....
All these and more are available from our library.
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There are apps you can download to your mobile phone to help you anywhere and at any time.
There are many free apps, here is a brief description of what they offer.
Wellmind
A free NHS mental health and wellbeing app designed to help you with stress, anxiety and depression. The app includes advice, tips and tools to improve your mental health and boost your wellbeing.
Stay Alive
This app is a pocket suicide prevention resource, packed full of useful information to help you stay safe. You can use it if you are having thoughts of suicide or if you are concerned about someone else who may be considering suicide.
What's Up?
What's Up? is a fantastic free app utilising some of the best CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) and ACT (Acceptance Commitment Therapy) methods to help you cope with Depression, Anxiety, Anger, Stress and more! With a beautiful, modern design, simple heading and easy-to-follow methods, you can get to what helps you the most in seconds.
SAM: Self Help for Anxiety Management
SAM is an app to help you understand and manage anxiety. The app has been developed in collaboration with a research team from UWE, Bristol.
SAM will help you to understand what causes your anxiety, monitor your anxious thoughts and behaviour over time and manage your anxiety through self-help exercises and private reflection.
The "Social Cloud" feature will enable you to share your experiences with the SAM community while protecting your identity.
Stress & Anxiety Companion
The Stress & Anxiety Companion app gives you the tools you need to manage anxious feelings and identify their triggers so they won’t trip you up in the future. It can help build your mental muscles to make you stronger and happier.
Calm Harm
Calm Harm provides tasks that help you resist or manage the urge to self-harm. You can add your own tasks too and it’s completely private and password protected.
What does it do? The four categories of tasks target the main reasons for why people self-harm. Distract helps to combat the urge by learning self-control; Comfort helps to care rather than harm; Express gets those feelings out in a different way and Release provides safe alternatives to self-injury.
Happier
Relax Melodies
Relax Melodies is a relaxation and sleep app that allows you to select sounds and melodies that you like and combine them to create a mix. Lay back, listen, and enjoy falling asleep. This app can also be used in many other situations aside from sleep; perfect during some of your favorites activities such as relaxing at the spa, exercising in your yoga or relaxation classes, massaging sessions, or even when taking a nap! For parents, the ideal to help your baby fall asleep!
☆ FEATURES ☆
- 50 High quality ambient sounds, including 2 binaural beats frequencies for brainwave entrainment.
- Mix your favorite sounds together with different volume to create your own personal melodies and get infinite possibilities!
- High quality Retina graphics
- Include 8 off the shelf favorites for easy startup
- Create, Save, Name, Sort and Replay your favorites easily
- Multiple Alarms & Timers system. Use your own favorite as alarm to wake up slowly.
Many more available through your app store
