CrossReach Counselling provides specialist and generic counselling to children, young people and adults across Scotland. A clients' inability to pay for our services is never a barrier to access. £200,000 would allow us to provide 2,150 counselling sessions to 238 people over the next 12 months.
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Situation
Mental health difficulties affect many of us – 6 in 10 adults experience anxiety that interferes with their daily lives and 1 in 6 children aged 5-16 are likely to have a mental health problem. Many of us can overcome these challenges by talking with and getting support from family, friends, and colleagues. For others, without professional therapeutic support, these challenges may lead to escalating mental health difficulties for them their family and their wider community.
Solution
Provide those facing mental health challenges and unable to pay for counselling, access to specialist, non-stigmatising, high quality support from a known and trusted service. Focus on communities where there is limited access to therapy due to rurality, mobility, marginalisation, deprivation, discrimination, etc. Helping them improve their psychological and physical health; improve their relationships and overall quality of life. Counselling offered face to face, or via a secure video link.
