We work with many local schools offering in house mental health, counselling and wellbeing support for both children and teaching staff.
CFC in Schools
Did you know ..... that we have an amazing team of 11 counsellors working in 12 schools supporting up to 122 children and young people per week during term time?
We are currently working in both primary and secondary schools, across Trafford, Manchester and North Manchester, but have also worked in colleges and universities.
We provide one to one counselling sessions as well as group sessions for children and young people in school settings, as well as counselling and supervision sessions for school staff and support for parents. In addition, we provide training for school staff to help them be better informed in supporting the young people they work with and in self-care and supporting colleagues too.
For example, we have delivered class sessions for students supporting them with coping with exam stress as well as online sessions for parents/carers to attend to help them support their children with exam stress.
We aim to be flexible to the needs of the schools we work in and can provide a bespoke service, for example, when a school has been particularly affected by bereavement, we have provided additional support in the form of extra individual sessions, group sessions as well as training and individual sessions for staff. We have also attended a revision event for yrs 7/8/9 pupils talking about the importance of sleep.
Our schools counsellors have all completed additional training to work with children and young people and they incorporate different age appropriate creative techniques such as sand tray, drawing, puppets and modelling to promote the safe exploration and processing of emotions in young people.
We're always working on extending our services in additional education settings and support more children and young people, so if you have any contacts who may be interested to hear about our schools services, please email sarah.barker@thecfc.org.uk.
Parents
In addition to our counselling services, we offer support groups and training to help you navigate all that being a parent throws at you including:
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Parenting teenagers course
I’m a Parent Get Me Out Of Here -
SEND parenting course
Starting Strong
In Focus: St Ambrose College
Counselling Service
The service provided by the Counselling & Family Centre has been invaluable at St Ambrose College. The counsellor worked with students presenting a huge range of issues and her calm and friendly approach has worked wonders. Boys who access the service always feel that the strategies and advice that the counsellor gives allows them to cope better with the pressures of their daily lives.
Boys who have accessed the service that CFC provides generally behave better in lessons, achieve more and are much happier and more confident. In particular, those boys whose anxiety makes it difficult to come in to school, look forward to their counselling sessions and will often come into school knowing they will have their counselling session. They know they can offload in a safe and non-judgmental environment, where their needs are put first, and ultimately their needs are met, with helpful strategies and coping methods.
Without the service provided by the Counselling & Family Centre, we would find supporting our boys much more difficult. The service is professional whilst maintaining its human touch. We could not recommend CFC enough.
Mrs Heather Burton
Pastoral/Wellbeing Manager
St Ambrose College
How can we help you?
1 to 1 therapeutic support to students within school working with issues such as anger, anxiety, problems with friendships, families and other important relationships, depression, bereavement and loss, self esteem, self-harm, bullying, problems with School, abuse & trauma. This is not an exhaustive list, simply an indication of some of the main issues we have encountered in recent times.
We are always looking for new ways to support and encourage children and young people. In addition to one-to-one counselling, we offer a range of group programmes, tailored and flexible to meet specific needs. Examples of these programmes include:
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Self-esteem workshops
If you would like to explore commissioning our service, please contact sarah.pipping@thecfc.org.uk
If we do not currently run a course you are looking for we are able to create programmes to meet other needs in your school.
This service is paid for by the schools themselves, and we are grateful to each school that has chosen to invest in their young people’s mental health and well-being.
