Southside’s Counselling Service offers free one-to-one sessions with a specialist counsellor trained to listen with empathy who helps individuals to deal with negative thoughts, difficult feelings and find their own solutions. Our counsellors help their clients to find their own solutions.

Our Counselling Service can help individuals to cope with challenges such as mental health problems, impact of domestic abuse and relationship difficulties, upsetting or traumatic experiences, difficult emotions and life events, and long-term health problems.

Coaching creates space to facilitate positive shifts in individuals/families in their behaviour, self-awareness, and wellbeing. Our Family Support team includes qualified coaches trained to build supportive relationships focused on future gain, not past pain. Coaching is a collaborative process and can help all members of a family set goals and take action – so that they can find solutions for themselves.

Southside workers identify people we support who could benefit from counselling or coaching, and work with the individuals to enable them to access this specialist service as part of overall support through Southside.