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About SCTC

We are a small counselling charity in Southampton, established for 20 years, providing counselling and therapy to residents of Southampton and districts well as Eastleigh Borough and Winchester. Our primary objective, as stated in our Articles & Memorandum of Association, is:

"to preserve and protect good health, both psychological and emotional, of persons in the community, in particular by the provision of counselling, workshops and support".

SCTC staff support our 2006 Integrated Service, which is Psychodynamic in approach. Our aim is to provide counselling and therapy of appropriate duration for adult clients. When funds are available we subsidise this work when clients are disadvantaged by inability to pay for the help they badly need.

SCTC also facilitate the Jan Craig Annual Memorial Lecture on major counselling issues,

History

Southampton Counselling & Therapy Centre has been established as a counselling charity since 1986 and has a reputation for providing high quality services. The organisation began as a Well Woman Centre, (Registered Charity) giving advice and information on health issues, particularly those of women. Client demand and user feedback showed that many women were really looking for a safe place to express and explore their feelings. In response the organisation took on a new name and new focus of activities. The Counselling & Therapy Centre for Women (Registered Charity, Company Limited by Guarantee) was launched in Northam in 1994 and began to provide counselling services for women in several venues around the city. The Centre developed a reputation for excellence and took on the challenge of helping to establish counselling as an ethical professional activity. In 2000, again as a response to feedback, another name change was undertaken and the organisation became Southampton Counselling & Therapy Centre – opening its doors to male users for the first time, thus further integrating our commitment to Equal Opportunities, an embedded part of our philosophy.

Mission statement

We believe that:

• Mental distress prevents individuals and the communities they form from flourishing
• Where it damages the ability of parents to nurture their children it is being passed into succeeding generations
• That the provision of affordable accessible therapies should be part of the way that a society addresses its own dis-ease

Aims of the service

• To provide affordable, accessible psychodynamic counselling of appropriate length, to men and women in the Southampton area
• To work with other organisations in raising awareness of the social consequences of mental distress, and generate discussion through conferences and workshops
• To demonstrate the efficacy of good counselling by monitoring the response of service users, and improving links with referrers
• To maintain high standards of ethical practice, and to promote this through contact with training organisations and supervised placements

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