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Adult Counselling

Adult Counselling for Individuals

You may be struggling with something that is creating turmoil in your life. You might have lost someone dear to you, or have a broken relationship that has rocked your world. Or you may simply have a niggling sense of life being not quite the way you want it to be.

Whether you are stressed at work, struggling with your self-esteem, or wondering if this is all there is, North East Counselling Services offers a confidential space, to work through problems and issues with a trained and qualified professional who can help you to find solutions.

Some people believe you have to have hit rock bottom before coming to counselling – but that isn’t true. Whether things are just starting to feel bad, or you feel lost and in a place that you don’t even recognise anymore, we can work with you to find your way again.

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Counselling can help you to:

Improve relationships

Understand yourself more deeply

Manage your emotions

Recognise your needs and how to communicate them

Feel better within yourself

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Types of issues that we work with:

North East Counselling Services sees clients with a wide range of issues, such as:

  • Stress
  • Low mood, depression or persistent sadness
  • Feelings of anxiety, panic or worry
  • Work related issues
  • Worries about health, or money
  • Family strains or friendship issues
  • Troubling memories from childhood
  • A loneliness that is difficult to explain
  • Issues around sexuality and gender
  • Struggles around self-harm
  • Self-esteem and confidence issues
  • Loss and Bereavement
  • Using alcohol or drugs to cope
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Private Adult Counselling from North East Counselling Services

Counselling Locations, Times and Prices

Face to Face Sessions

Sessions with your counsellor would take place at our main office in Blaydon, or at our counselling rooms in Pelaw.

Telephone Counselling & Online Therapy

We also offer remote therapy, in the form of telephone and online counselling.

Pricing

Counselling for individuals, both in-person and online, costs £65 per session.

Appointment Times

We offer counselling appointments Monday to Friday (including evenings) and on Saturdays. If you require changes or flexibility, we will find times that work for you.

Appointment Length

Our face-to-face counselling, telephone counselling and online counselling sessions each last 50 minutes.

Confidentiality

North East Counselling Services provides safe, confidential and ethical counselling – giving you the space to talk openly and freely.

FAQs about our Adult Counselling Services

Still got a question? Find out everything you need to know about our Adult Counselling services below, from taking the first step, to pricing and how we handle your data. Alternatively, please contact us if you would like more information.

Our face-to-face counselling, telephone counselling and online counselling sessions each last 50 minutes.

Sessions can be face to face, over the telephone, and online.

Face to face sessions with your counsellor would take place at our main office in Blaydon, or at our counselling rooms in Pelaw.

Our online therapy is via Microsoft Teams video calls. If you opt for online counselling, then before each session your counsellor will send the Teams link for your session to the email address that you have provided to us. You will need access to a Microsoft Teams account in order to obtain your counselling in this way.  If you don’t currently have access to Teams, then you will be able to download the Teams app, using the information that we send to you before your counselling session.

The number of sessions will vary depending upon your needs.  At intervals, your counsellor will review with you how you feel things are going. If additional appointments are needed, the counsellor will explore this with you.

You can discuss with your counsellor the number and focus of your sessions at any time, and can choose to pause or end the counselling whenever you wish.

Counselling for individuals costs £65 per session.

We also offer some reduced-cost counselling sessions, priced at £35. These are with counsellors who are returning to the profession after a career break, or who are undertaking a supervised placement with us whilst completing their academic counselling qualification.

Availability of reduced-cost counselling varies at different times of the year and:

  • is suitable for many emotional issues including depression and anxiety, or specific issues that are impacting in the short-term
  • is only for individual adults (not couples or children)

If you are interested in our reduced-cost counselling, please let us know when you contact us.

When you fill in our online referral form or call us, we will ask you for some basic information, including your address, date of birth, and the name of your GP Practice.

We will also ask you to let us know:

  • The reason you are seeking, or considering, counselling.
  • How you would prefer us to contact you
  • The days of the week and times of day when you will be normally be available to attend counselling.
  • Where you would like your counselling to take place (Blaydon, Pelaw, by telephone or online).

North East Counselling Services provides safe, confidential and ethical counselling – giving you the space to talk openly and freely.

The content of your counselling sessions will be kept private and we would only breach confidentiality in the following situations:

  • To protect you or someone else from serious harm – including safeguarding commitments.
  • Where there is a legal obligation to disclose information.
  • To prevent a crime.
  • Child protection.
  • If you have given your consent for confidentiality to be breached in order to share information with other parties.

We are committed to keeping safe the data you share with us. You can expect that we store your data securely and that we process your personal information in ways that are lawful, fair and transparent.

Before you attend your first counselling session you will be sent some documents to read. One of those will be our Privacy Policy, which explains:

  • How we securely store your data
  • Other important information about your rights – in relation to the gathering, processing and storing of your data (under the GDPR regulation).

After you've read the Privacy Policy, if you have any questions about data privacy at North East Counselling Services, please contact us.

Sometimes counselling is about finding how to change things, sometimes it’s finding a way to accept what we can’t change – and sometimes people don’t want anything to change, they just don’t want to feel alone with it all anymore.

When people first come to counselling – sometimes called talking therapy – it’s common to feel unsure about what exactly you need from the process. And that is okay; your counsellor can help you uncover this as you go.  At North East Counselling Services, you can start from exactly where you are now, working with a counsellor who will keep to your pace.

Your counsellor will listen without judgment, helping you explore your thoughts and emotions. We might also use some creative ways of tapping into your feelings, such as mapping things out on paper, or using objects and resources in the room.

Depending upon your needs and the counsellor’s approach, the counselling might focus mostly on one main issue, or could explore more broadly how you're feeling. If appropriate, the counsellor might also offer you information, or suggest a different perspective.

Whatever methods the counselling includes, our counsellors will tailor the process to fit your needs, to help you find a way forward.

There are some situations in which we might not be able to help.

At your first meeting with one of our counsellors, if we feel that the issues that you have come to us with (or some other background factors) mean that you would benefit from a different type of therapy or service, which we do not provide, then we will discuss that with you. In addition, we do not diagnose neurodiversity, or specific mental health conditions.

You can make a request for counselling on behalf of someone else, but in order to do that, you first need to follow these steps:

  1. Speak to the person concerned and explain that we are a counselling service.
  2. Check that you have their permission to give us their details and to ask North East Counselling Services to contact them.
  3. Clarify with them what they would like to get out of accessing some counselling for themselves.

Once you’ve completed the three above things, click here to send an online referral or telephone us on 0191 4661314.

You can enquire about coming to counselling in any of the following ways.

1) Complete the referral form on our website

2) Telephone us on 0191 4661314

3) Email us at info@necounselling.org.uk

What Our Clients Say About Us

It truly has been an enormous help to us all

These sessions have been a godsend to me at a time in my life when I thought my whole world had fallen apart. It has allowed me to rationalise what has happened and help me to come to terms with it. My counsellor used amazing metaphors and facts to explain what was going on in my head as well as repeating what I had said in his own words which allowed me to reflect on a lot of things both in and out of the sessions. I would not be at that stage of my journey and development if I hadn’t have gotten the counselling at such a critical time. My development has also allowed me to help my 2 children in their trauma and coming to terms with what has happened. It truly has been an enormous help to us all.

My counsellor was brilliant

Both the consistency and availability of appointment times is excellent.  The level of interest and care that my counsellor offered was brilliant.  My counsellor created a safe space in which I felt totally able to be.

Counselling has changed my life!

This is my 3rd time attending North East Counselling Services. Twice on my own and once for couple’s therapy. I just wish this service was closer to home and readily available to everybody. Counselling has changed my life. I’d do it every week forever if I could!

Thank you for being there for me

Thank you for being there for me, and helping my through some of the hardest times in my life.

I never thought I would be feeling so much better today

Thank you to NECS for the amazing support I received, it has helped me get back to and stay in work, to look at myself a positive way and feel valued, before the sessions I never thought I would be feeling so much better today.

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