Supporting Parent/Carer Mental Health
When advocating for your child leaves no space for you
Supporting a child with SEN can mean constantly explaining, chasing, challenging decisions and holding everything together. Over time, this can lead to advocacy burnout, exhaustion, isolation and the feeling that nobody is supporting you.
Our affordable counselling sessions offer a confidential space where the focus can finally be on you.
Available online or in person for parents and carers of children or young people with additional needs. Limited appointments are available at a cost of £10 per hour.
What the service offers
Counselling
These are person-centred counselling sessions for parents and carers, provided by neurodivergent trainee counsellors with lived experience of caring for children with additional support needs. They are not behavioural support, parenting instruction or an assessment of your child.
You can use the space to explore:
- Advocacy burnout and exhaustion
- Anxiety, overwhelm or low mood
- Feeling unheard by schools or services
- Guilt, anger, grief or isolation
- The effect on relationships and family life
- Losing sight of your own needs
Safe, professional support from someone who understands
Our counsellors bring relevant lived experience of caring for neurodivergent family members - in addition to having completed at least three years of counselling training through a recognised university programme and undertaken regular professional supervision.
All counsellors providing this low-cost service are supervised trainees. They are appropriately insured, DBS-checked and members of a relevant professional body.