Welcome

We set out to 'fill the cracks of care' locally. To make sure that people in distress who cannot afford private counselling but do not fit others organisation's criteria have a source of professional therapeutic support.

About Us

We are not here to duplicate the work of private counsellors but to complement their work and that of other counselling organisations.

We work with those people who do not fit into the other organisations' criteria and who cannot afford private counselling

In order to sustain ourselves when our funding ends we charge for our services, depending on what you can afford. Hence our prices normally start at £5 a session but if you can afford more, up to £30 a session we ask that you give this so that we can continue to provide our wonderful service to others

Our Promise To You

Open Minds exists to provide counselling to adults and children aged 8 and over,

on any issue and for as long as the counselling is useful and necessary.

The client is the first priority of Open Minds, the only exception being where safeguarding issues take precedence.

We appreciate the benefit to Open Minds of our counselling volunteers and provide a comprehensive support service to our counsellors,

including administrative support, case-work management, mentoring, academic guidance, training, internal supervision and more.

We recognize that counsellors need client work experience in order to qualify or sustain qualifications but must always put the client first; their vulnerability, availability, gender preference of counsellor, etc. take precedence over the counsellor's need for more client work.

Open Minds aim always to allocate clients to counsellors within 2 weeks of referral

(if a counsellor of appropriate competency is available at a time convenient to the client.)

However there may be busy periods or mitigating circumstances in the service in which this is not possible, for which we apologise.

Specialist Services

Open Minds provide counselling for adults and for children aged 8 and over.

Counselling is on any issue for as long as it is useful and we charge only what you can afford. If you are unemployed we ask for £1 a session and if you are employed we ask for between £5 - £30 a session.

We have male and female counsellors available and are open from 09:30 - 19:00 Mondays and Thursadays and 09:30 - 17:00 Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.

Adults can usually start counselling within 2 weeks of our receivng the referral but under 18s can take up to 6 months, depending on the availability of our counsellors.

Trade Bodies / Associations

We work according to the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)'s ethical framework for good practice

Our websites

www.openmindsdoncaster.com
www.counsellingdoncaster.com
www.openmindscounseling.com

Trading Since

2008

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