service
Paid
Flourishing Minds aims to provide high quality, affordable and accessible counselling and psychotherapy services for children, young people and their families.
Key information
Eligibility
Disability
- Anyone affected by chronic illness
- Cancer
What is this service?
Individual Counselling
The Mulberry Centre offers 6 sessions of individual counselling to patients, their carers and those bereaved through cancer. Anyone with a life expectancy of less than one year will be offered counselling for that period. There are regular support groups for patients, carers and the bereaved.
All our counsellors meet the standards laid down by either the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), or the British Psychological Society (BPS) and they have the certificate to practise. Our counsellors all volunteer their time free of charge.
Support Groups
The Mulberry Centre support groups provide a safe and confidential space where you can have regular contact with others to share experiences. Groups are facilitated by counsellors and may have up to 12 members. The aim is to provide somewhere you can talk about issues that you may find difficult to express elsewhere. The following groups are currently available:
Patient Group: – Runs weekly.
Bereavement Group: – Runs fortnightly.
**Carers’ Group: – **Runs fortnightly.
Coaching
Coaching is a process which enables a person to see their challenges, decisions or problems from different perspectives, to achieve greater awareness and to gain new insights. It provides space in which to think things through and time to talk in a non judgemental context, often about priorities, visioning for the future, feelings and values. Coaching starts from the here and now and looks to the future and how things might be different – it will revisit the past only to inform future action.
Contact us to ask for more details or book a session with our Coach. We offer up to 6 sessions spread across a 6-month period.
What we offer?
- Individual counselling
- Support groups
- Coaching
Good to know
- Cost: Free
- Signing up: Due to the current lockdown, The Mulberry Centre has once again had to close its doors but we are still offering support between 10am and 4pm, Monday to Friday. We continue to provide some of our services online or over the phone, click[ remote services here ](https://themulberrycentre.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/The-Mulberry-Centre-Remote-Services-Leaflet-020221.pdf)for further details.
- Additional information: Non cancer-related cases the patient/carer must live or work in Hounslow or have been a recent inpatient at the West Mid Hospital to use our services.
- Parking: There is very limited parking available at the Centre for our clients. Please use the hospital car park and allow extra time for your journey.
