St John's Counselling

10/05/2025

01/05/2025

25/04/2025

IT’s official! Here’s the line up for next Saturday thank you for those who are willingly giving up their time in support of the community!

✨ A bit of a background on one of our special guests at the opening day. Since starting own Time & Space I have met many people who share their personal experiences, and Angus was one talented individual who I felt had to be at our event………..he’s is giving up his time on Saturday to make a guest appearance.

“Angus Baskerville, our magician for the day, is an award winning Magic Circle accredited magician & mentalist from Stratford upon Avon. Angus diagnosed with ADHD & Asperger’s when he was 15 performs all across the country and has harnessed his journey on the spectrum into his act. He is about to embark on a 15 date warm up tour across the region before a second full run at this years Edinburgh Fringe in August”

It’s going to be an awesome opening!!

25/11/2024

🌟 Our Christmas Campaign Launches Today! 🌟

This Christmas, we’re opening doors for young people at risk of homelessness – and we need your help. From today until 25th December, we’re aiming to raise £10,000 to provide vital support like counselling, food parcels, and skills workshops to young people in our community.

💛 Last year, your generosity funded over 400 hours of life-changing support. Together, we can do it again.

🎥 Over the coming weeks, we’ll be sharing heartfelt stories from our team and the young people we’ve supported. Keep an eye on our page for powerful videos showing the difference your donations make.

🎁 How you can help:
👉 Donate today at https://ow.ly/NmlL50UbWF9
👉 Share this post to spread the word
👉 Follow us for stories and updates throughout the campaign

This Christmas, let’s give the gift of hope. Together, we can change lives.

19/11/2024

Looking for a therapist, and prefer to talk to a man? With more than 75% of therapists being female, it can sometimes be tricky to find a male therapist to work with. That's why we're really pleased to have Kish with us at St John's, completing his training as a counsellor in our Low Cost Service (£20 per session).

If you'd like to work with Kish, or any of our qualified male therapists, please get in touch!
07399 519 876
counsellingstjohns@gmail.com
counsellingstjohns.com

11/11/2024

A behind-the-scenes peek of Kelly from the The Basement Project at St John’s last week, working hard on their Christmas campaign - we’re really pleased to be a small part of it, looking forward to seeing the finished results! 😀🎄

30/10/2024

Congratulations to Practice Manager Judith, who's just added "author" to her list of accomplishments! She's written a chapter in "How to grow a fiercely successful business", a collection of the stories of local female entrepreneurs and how they either started or grew their business. It's also the story of the recent history of St John's Counselling, and how much has changed (or not) since 2020, when she and Dave Latham took over St John's after the sad loss of the previous manager, Debbie Reed.

Well done Judith on taking on the challenge of doing something different, and pushing the edges of that comfort zone! 🌟🌟

If you' like to work with Judith (or any of our other therapists) on pushing beyond your current comfort zones, please get in touch!

07399 519 876
counsellingstjohns@gmail.com
counsellingstjohns.com

"As it says in my chapter, I don't particularly feel like an entrepreneur, but as we often talk about in therapy, it sometimes takes a while for for the way we think about ourselves to catch up the way we are in the present - and that applies to therapists too! I think it'll be a similar experience before I can say "author" without it feeling weird, but hopefully over time, that will change too!"

28/10/2024

Monday’s job this week - finding all the clocks that haven’t automatically adjusted themselves over the weekend, then working out how to change them! ⏰🕣🕰️

How’s your Monday going?

25/10/2024

Did you promise yourself last year that Christmas 2024 would be different?

The festive season is fast approaching (2 months to the "Big Day" 🙈) - are you already worrying about getting it all done, managing family and friends, and making sure everyone but you has a good time?

The good news is that there's still time to make some changes - 2 months to go means there's time to fit in up to 8 counselling sessions between now and then.

Up to 8 chances to have time for you to vent, pick up some coping strategies, to discuss ways to manage those awkward family relationships and generally work at making this Christmas one you can enjoy.

And with session fees starting from £20, it could be the best present you give yourself this year!🎁🎁

07399 519 876
counsellingstjohns@gmail.com
counsellingstjohns.com

16/10/2024

Are you sitting comfortably? I'm not!

Everyone has their own comfort zones, those situations where we're confident and generally ok. And sometimes we need to slightly push the limits of those safe places, to do something different, and to challenge ourselves.

So I've just done something a little on the edge of my comfort zone - although a year or so ago it would have been so far outside that it wouldn't even have been an option! It's part of a bigger project - again, something, way outside my usual comfort zone - but taking small steps, one at a time, has meant it's becoming a reality (and talking about what that larger project is will be another step for a different day! 🤫🙂)

So if you've taken some small steps recently - well done! 🌟🌟 We'd love to hear about them in the comments!

~ Judith

10/10/2024

Today might be , but we all know that our mental health is with us every day of the year, although we often don't pay a lot of attention to it until something starts feeling a bit "off".

And a bit like with our physical health, we often ignore the small aches in the hope that tomorrow it will have sorted itself out - and sometimes it does!

But if today is the same as yesterday, and the day before that, then now might be the time to reach out for a bit of extra support. 🕰⌚️

Any day is a good day to contact us here at St John's, we aim to reply to your emails within 24 hours, and can often book you in with a counsellor within a week.



07399 519 876
counsellingstjohns.com
counsellingstjohns@gmail.com