Professional Family Counselling and Therapy

in Merseyside and throughout the UK

Seek professional mental health support with expert family counselling and therapy services at About You UK. At our charitable organisation in St. Helens, Merseyside, we provide accredited counselling for children aged 5 to 16 years old and adults aged 16 and up. All of our qualified DBS-checked counsellors have received additional specialist training for family therapy. Contact us today to get started.

Children & Family Referral

Why Choose Family Therapy?

Family is an important part of all our lives. When you and your family openly communicate so that you can negotiate your priorities and individual preferences, you’ll be better placed to make decisions all day, every day.

When communication is disrupted, family counselling can help. Getting off track doesn’t mean that you’ve failed, only that you need to make some course corrections.

Strategies and Routines

As in business, applying good strategies – such as vision casting, team building, delegating, and leading by serving – will foster healthy relationships and effective home management. Time management is really about self-management, as learning to value your time and deciding what’s most important will improve your family life.

Somewhere between perfection and chaos, every family needs to find common ground about what makes home a good place to be for all.

Working together to make your house a home and devising a fair and efficient way to care for your home and belongings will reduce stress—both now and in the years to come.

Life Skills

Everyone who lives under the roof of a home should contribute to its upkeep. This is not the job of one or two people. As soon as children are able, they can learn regular life skills by helping around the house. Even a two-year-old can tidy away toys.

Toddlers won’t fold the towels as neatly as you’d like, but that’s okay. It’s more important that they learn to be productive and see themselves as active contributors to the welfare of the home.

Hundreds of activities are required to keep a family going. Create routines to make everyone’s life easier. Once you decide how, when, and by whom something should be done, you eliminate lots of frustration. Plus, when your children grow up and leave home, they will be well-equipped for modern-day living and challenges.

Family Management

The family is the most important structure that we will have in our lives. Building loving, lasting relationships is the most important job you’ll ever have. When you make this your priority, other things seem to fall into place.

The ultimate goal of family life is to create an environment in which human beings love one
another so they can grow and flourish together.

A successful family doesn’t just happen. It results from a passionate commitment to shared values and from family members who invest their love, time, and energy into helping each other.

What You’ll Learn

It’s never too late to begin making changes. Following an honest and direct approach with the whole family, the end goal of Family Management is to make sure you have time for the things that matter most.

Even sharing meal time is the learning centre of family life. There’s something about sitting down and eating together that fosters communication and closeness.

Working with About You UK counsellors, you will learn and discover new strategies for your day-to-day life with your family making the best of your time together and dealing with situations as they arise in an appropriate calm manner.

Children’s Services

We also work with children who have various issues that may be helped with counselling. Response time in therapy varies from person to person, so we offer counselling in blocks of 8 sessions to maintain the integrity of the service provided.

Children and Family Therapy is available at the following centres:

St Helen’s Counselling Centre: 63 Park Road, St. Helens, WA9 1DS
Southport Counselling Centre: 419 Lord Street, Southport, PR9 0AG

How It Works

The child is invited with their parent/guardian to an initial session. Once the counselling agreement is in place the parent leaves the room and returns at the end of the session to collect the child.

Our therapy room is full of toys and other objects. Children resolve their difficulties through play, with the counsellor’s support. Older children may prefer to talk for some or all of the time. A session lasts from 30 to 50 minutes, depending on the child’s age and attention span.

About Our Counsellors

Working with children aged 5 to 16 years old, our qualified counsellors have additional specialist training for child and family counselling. What’s more, all our staff have passed a DBS Enhanced check. At About You UK, we aim to help all who need it, using Clinical Governance to assess emotional issues before, during, and at the end of therapy.

Our counsellors can help children, young people and families deal with a range of issues, including:

About Our Counsellors

Anger
Anxiety
Bereavement
Bullying/Being Bullied
Communication Difficulties
Identity
Loss
Low Confidence
Mild Depression
Panic
Poor Self-Esteem
Socializing Issues
Trauma

Please Note

About You UK is a charity and receives no funding from any agencies. As a charitable organisation, we work on a purely donation basis for each session.

To cover our operating costs, we request a minimum donation of:

Children’s Services – £30.00 per Session
Family Management – £45.00 per Session

There will be an initial payment when the assessment is placed and then payments will be a week in advance of the appointment.

If you have the ability to Gift Aid, the charity will also benefit from this as we can claim an additional 25% of your total donations. It will not cost you any extra.

Specialising in Family Counselling

Our family-friendly services include child and adult therapy and counselling solutions.

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