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Counselling
Marches Counselling Service
Marches Counselling Service (MCS) is a charity offering professional, confidential and affordable counselling and psychotherapy. MCS aims to help people based in Hereford, across and near Herefordshire, whose mental wellbeing is suffering and feel that working with a counsellor or psychotherapist would help them to manage challenging times in their lives.
Affordable
MCS was founded to make to make counselling and psychotherapy accessible to all. We are a not-for-profit charity and rely on session fees to provide our service. We fundraise to keep costs low and help subsidise those on low incomes. We ask those who can pay the full cost of counselling to do so, but we understand this isn’t always possible. Being a small charity with low overheads, a good financial ethos and much needed funding support, we keep our costs as low as possible whilst providing a professional service.
Your needs
An initial assessment enables a deeper consideration of your situation where we discuss possible ways forward which will meet your needs. We then match you to an appropriate counsellor and therapeutic approach. We appreciate you will want to be seen as soon as possible so we don’t have a waiting list. You are not limited to how many sessions you have. We offer both short and long term therapy.
How counselling can help
Counselling is an opportunity to work with someone you can trust in a safe place. Together the you and your counsellor look at how the you reached your present situation, what it means for you, how your could look at things with a different point of view and what you might want to change about how you react to thins. Through counselling, you may develop fresh coping skills, discover new perspectives, change unhelpful patterns and feel better in yourself.
Coping
To find different and sometimes new ways of coping with situations, or other people, in a safe, non-judgemental environment.
Understanding
To help you understand yourself, your thoughts, your feelings and your behaviours. To also gain insight into how you got to where you are. To have a better understanding of others which in turn, should help your reactions to situations and your relationships.
Support
To gain support managing harmful emotions, behaviours or situations. Help make decisions, resolve conflict, build your confidence to assist you in making changes in your life.
Direction
To help you identify what you want, what is getting in the way, or what is stopping you. To help you find who you are again, give you a sense of purpose and either get back on track or gain a fresh sense of direction.
Medication
To sort things out while taking medication or as an alternative to it. Medication can help manage symptoms. Therapy provides a space to process emotions and understand the causes of your mental health issues. They can work together.
Individual Therapy
To help you discuss and explore your mental health challenges. What they are, what causes them, look at them from a different perspective and ultimately feel more comfortable in your own skin.
Counselling Can Help Lift the Clouds
Counselling provides a safe place to talk and work on many issues such as:
- Abuse
- Anger
- Anxiety
- Bereavement
- Compulsions
- Confidence
- Depression
- Fear
- Food
- Phobias
- Relationships
- Self-esteem
- Self-harm
- Trauma
What counsellors say
It was life changing for me. Things I had taken for granted in myself, about the world were challenged, but gently, so I became much more confident
Mode of counselling/therapy
One to One Counselling
This includes approaches where you focus with your counsellor or psychotherapist on coping techniques, as well as those which look more in depth at present or past patterns in your life and relationships. The aim is to help you understand and deal with where you are now, so your relationship with the future can be different.
Group Therapy
This is when a group of people who share some common difficulties come together with each other and a counsellor to consider where they are in their lives and think about ways forward: sometimes using specific techniques like mindfulness, sometimes in a more open way.
Remote Therapy
Remote or online therapy includes counselling appointments over the phone or using audio-visual platforms such as Zoom. These have been introduced during the Covid pandemic to ensure one-to-one counselling can still continue when it hasn’t been safe to meet in person. They will continue for those for whom it is a preferred method, or in situations where illness or transport create difficulties in meeting in person.
Couples Counselling
This allows two people to work together with a counsellor on their communication. It can help you understand one another better, change patterns in how you relate and find more satisfaction in being together. This is not always about keeping the old relationship, but about finding a positive way to live differently.
Tools : A Self Help Mind Kit
The resources on this page are intended to offer some ideas about how you can help yourself.
These resources are not a replacement for therapy, but might be helpful if you are not currently seeing a counsellor, whilst you are thinking about contacting us or in the brief period before your assessment or appointment.
Who Am I?
We all experience different parts of ourselves at times, according to who we are
Taken for granted
Resentful at being taken for granted? Over time, many couples begin to take their
Please get in touch to find out more
Phone
Office open 9am – 1pm. A confidential answer machine operates outside these hours.
Appointments
Available M-F during daytime, in person or online.
There is limited evening & weekend availability.
