Counselling

Everyone experiences times when they feel anxious, sad, or depressed. If your problems are getting on top of you, it can help to talk to someone who has the time to listen.

Counselling can help you to explore your feelings and look at the reasons why you are feeling this way. Counselling aims to help you find your own solutions, without making moral judgements or pushing you in a particular direction.

The service is provided by Mind's counsellor and trained and supervised volunteers. Mind believes that counselling should be available to everyone irrespective of ability to pay; so there is no charge for this service. However, the number of sessions is limited to twelve (each one hour in length).

Counselling is available to anyone (age 17-65) who lives in the borough of Solihull. Appointments take place at the Mind office between 9-30am and 5-00pm Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday; on Tuesday and Monday evenings; Saturdays; and on Friday mornings. If there is a reason why you cannot come to the office, where possible we will try to make arrangements to see you at home. Unfortunately, due to the great demand for counselling, there is a waiting time of about three to four months for the first appointment. If our counsellor is for any reason unable to help, we will try to put you in touch with someone who can.

Solihull Mind's services are provided according to our policies on equal opportunities and confidentiality. All information is confidential to Solihull Mind and no written records are kept. We will only consider breaching confidentiality when there is serious and immediate risk of harm to a third party. Details of our policies are available on request

Funded by Solihull Care Trust